OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS
EMILY GARDENER, Guest Support
In October of 2018, Emily, a stranger from Arizona, traveled to Oregon on nothing but a prayer. She had no idea why she was going there or what she would do when she arrived, until her paths crossed with a single mother struck by a debilitating disease. This encounter had a profound impact on her life and eventually inspired her to co-found Emily's Place a year and a half later, becoming a crucial part of our Board of Directors. Today, she also works at New Vision Wilderness Therapy, following another passion: to one day create a nurturing environment for foster kids who have never felt loved and keep falling through the cracks.
Emily, as the second oldest of five girls, has a deep love for her family, everything green, and the sun peering through mountain peaks in the morning. She enjoys the blue, green, and orange hues of nature, dreams under the stars, collects dainty little rings, lights candles, cherishes crystals, writes poetry, and savors hot chai tea lattes while using Burt’s Bees chapstick and penning handwritten letters.
She is incredibly excited about her role in co-founding Emily's Place and the support it offers to our guests.
In honor of our first guest, Wren Sparrow, PhD in Women & Gender Studies and a Masters in English, Emily shares her favorite poem.
Welcome. We’re so glad you found us.
Emily’s Place The One walks beside women sidelined by catastrophic illness or injury as they reclaim dignity, safety, and life, and find a new heartsong.
To the clinicians who stay with the hardest cases: thank you. You are often the reason someone holds on.
Our proposed REALtime pilot, shaped by patients and caregivers, asks a hopeful question: what helps people in severe pain stay safely connected to care through surgery and every change?
The answers will come from patients and clinicians together. Hope springs eternal. Please join us.