Joyce Brake recently returned to the legislative advocacy arena as Associate Director of State Relations at Oregon Health & Science University. In this role, she lobbies Salem on OHSU’s public health, human services, higher education, and research issues.
Prior to her family’s Portland move, Joyce was the founding attorney of Columbia Counsel PLLC in White Salmon, Washington, where she took on rural legal services gaps through child advocacy casework and small business government relations. Joyce’s background includes policy counsel at the Washington State Senate and Moore & Van Allen PLLC, and she is a former German Fulbright Scholar and Bundestag parliamentary fellow.
