About Senior Voices PDX
We are a Portland-rooted community of elders, allies, and Golden Eagle Messengers turning lived experience into connection, advocacy, and practical change.
Our story
Senior Voices PDX grew from a shared belief that experienced community members can help build a more connected, responsive Portland.
We listen to seniors, carry wisdom forward, connect generations, and bring people, organizations, and public resources together around solutions that help older adults live with dignity, security, purpose, and belonging.
Explore our partnerships →Meet our founders
Anna is the visionary behind the Golden Eagle Messengers. Her work is rooted in human potential, “Can Do” empowerment, unity, respect, compassion, and preventive, win-win approaches to complex community challenges.
Nancy brings decades of experience in planning, facilitation, education, events, boards, and project coordination—helping people and organizations turn shared purpose into practical action.
Meet the first flight
Each GEM brings a different kind of experience, connection, and care to the circle.
Centering human potential, unity, respect, compassion, and practical community partnerships.
A founder, facilitator, educator, and project leader who helps turn good ideas into coordinated action.
Connecting Senior Voices PDX with neighborhood associations and community-based action.
Helping carry senior voices, community wisdom, and connection forward.
Helping people navigate living choices, aging in place, housing transitions, and what comes next.
Shaping the stories, invitations, and messages that bring people into the work.
Channeling the vision into a growing digital world where people and ideas can connect.
The community spirit behind the work
Founders, friends, and the community spirit behind Senior Voices PDX.
July 16, 2026 · Community for Positive Aging
The Senior Voices PDX team at the Power of Connection event.
The home of the GEMs
An aerie is an eagle’s high, protected nest—a place of return, wide vision, and preparation for flight.
Our Aerie is the member workspace of Senior Voices PDX. It is where approved Golden Eagle Messengers and collaborators gather to shape profiles, stories, ideas, designs, communications, projects, and future publications before they take flight into the wider world.
Enter the Aerie · Member Workspace →Join the circle
We welcome elder-story mentors, event hosts, creative contributors, subject-matter advisors, and community connectors.