Barry Fox-Quamme
Barry Fox-Quamme ran for election to the Mt. Hood Community College District Board of Education to represent Zone 5 in Oregon. He lost in the general election on May 16, 2023.
Fox-Quamme completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Barry Fox-Quamme was born in Detroit, Michigan. He earned a bachelor's degree from Gonzaga University in 1983 and another degree from Gonzaga University in 1985. His career experience includes working as the Executive Director of Independent Living Resources and Administrative Co-Director of Kinship House. He has served on the State Independent Living Council. He has been affiliated with the Association of Oregon Centers for Independent Living.[1]
Elections
2023
See also: Municipal elections in Multnomah County, Oregon (2023)
General election
General election for Mt. Hood Community College District Board of Education, Zone 5
Dana Stroud defeated Barry Fox-Quamme in the general election for Mt. Hood Community College District Board of Education, Zone 5 on May 16, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Dana Stroud (Nonpartisan) | 57.2 | 4,083 | |
 | Barry Fox-Quamme (Nonpartisan)  | 41.7 | 2,975 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 1.1 | 80 | ||
| Total votes: 7,138 | |||
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Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2023
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Barry Fox-Quamme completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Fox-Quamme's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I bring experience working with people with disabilities, foster and adopted youth, seniors, and community-based training programs to ensure quality of education at Mt. Hood Community College!
I’ve worked with students across wide income and age ranges and found that success is often found via mentored undergraduate and mid-life training programs. After years of developing social service programs, I find that many people are looking to return to work via supported educational opportunities.
As an executive director and program officer for more than 25 years, I have insights into the challenges so many of us face in finding a vocation in life.
My experience leading cross-cultural service-learning programs provides me with insights to help empower students from diverse backgrounds toward success!
My work with foster and adoptive children gives me insight into the supports people of all abilities and backgrounds need to find stable futures.
Living an interesting life of leadership that combines direct social services with serving on Federal, State and Municipal oversight councils, I bring a unique combination of experience to the MHCC Education Board.
- I'm an advocate for accessible and affordable education for diverse students.
- As an executive director and program officer for more than 25 years, I have insights into the challenges so many of us face in finding a vocation in life.
- Living an interesting life of leadership that combines direct social services with serving on Federal, State and Municipal oversight councils, I bring a unique combination of experience to the MHCC Education Board.
Young and mid-life adult students have so many opportunities to create a better life with a Mt. Hood Community College education. Yet our region’s students also face many challenges, as they look to discover and apply their passions in life.
In my assessment, expanding field-work and technical workplace mentor training experiences is the most important step toward improving the percentage of students who receive a degree or certificate from MHCC.
The satisfaction of passing on what is learned in life is the gift a student provides a professional mentor, while developing practical professional skills from a mentor brings each student’s education to life.
Living with my wife and family in Zone 5 since 2008 (Gresham’s Butler Creek, Damascus-North Pleasant Valley), our four boys grew up exploring SW Gresham's Butler Creek Park and hiking in the Gresham/Damascus Buttes. Our oldest son found success achieving an Oregon Community College Transfer Degree.
With my career starting at Marquette University, I led the development of what at the time was the nation’s largest cross-cultural, service-learning program. Faculty, staff, and students went out on one-week to two-week immersion experiences (200+ students annually). Placements ranged from rural coal-mining health clinics to Texas/Mexico refugee camps, from homeless advocacy centers in Chicago and Washington, DC to Native American, Hmong and l’Arche disability community cultural exchanges. Running the Marquette Action Program and Social Justice Education went on to shape all my social service work for 30 years.
Beyond direct-service, I have developed an expertise in oversight and planning via public service on various boards and councils. Here are a few examples:
• At Maquette I served for three years on the Memorial Student Union Design-Build Council where we oversaw the siting, designing and construction of the 125,000 square foot new student union.
• At the State level in Oregon, I served for six years via a Governor’s Appointment to the State Independent Living Council (2007-2013). Four years of that term, I served on the executive committee of the council.
• In Clackamas County just prior to the pandemic, I served for two years via a mayoral appointment to the City of Happy Valley’s Pleasant Valley/North Carver Comprehensive Plan Citizens Advisory Committee (2018 – 2020)
• Living with my wife and family in the Zone 5 District since 2008 (Gresham’s Butler Creek, Damascus-North Pleasant Valley), our four boys grew up exploring SW Gresham.
• Our oldest son found success with an Oregon Community College Transfer Degree.
• As an executive director for a peer-based disability services agency for 18-years, I have insights into the challenges so many of us face as people with obvious and hidden disabilities.
• Many consumers with disabilities find success at MHCC!
• My past work with foster and adoptive children gives me insight into the supports people of all abilities and backgrounds need to find stable futures.
Decades of leading social service organizations helps me to promote undergraduate and mid-life training programs. Experience leading cross-cultural programs at Marquette helps me empower students from diverse backgrounds to success!
In my assessment, expanding field-work and technical workplace mentor training experiences is the most important step toward improving the percentage of students who receive a degree or certificate from MHCC.
The satisfaction of passing on what is learned in life is the gift a student provides a professional mentor, while developing practical professional skills from a mentor brings each student’s education to life.
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See also
2023 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 5, 2023
