Shannon Huggins is a leader and connector with over 18 years of experience in community engagement, community affairs, and communications. She has a deep bench of engagement experience from working in four industries: water, manufacturing, transportation, and aviation. She thrives on building relationships with the public, local and regional jurisdictions, advocates, regulators, and businesses. As a collaborative, conflict-resolution strategist, she currently leads projects and programs for Clean Water Services, an innovative water resources management utility district that serves over 600,000 customers in Oregon.

She values integrity, transparency, honesty, collaboration, authenticity, leading by example, tenacity, hard work, optimism, and finding humor in most things.