Ray is a marketing communications professional with a lifelong interest in sustainability issues and years of experience working on behalf of environmental and community-focused organizations. While pursuing a career as a marketing consultant and journalist, Ray has consistently invested time and energy into promoting environmental and social justice causes, and green technology companies. Ray has helped market renewable energy assessment companies, suppliers to the solar industry and the Clean Technology Alliance of the Software Association of Oregon. He has also served as the marketing director of the Oregon Environmental Council. Ray holds a Certificate in Sustainable Business from the Bainbridge Graduate Institute. He recently completed the Portland Metro Master Recycler program and currently serves as marketing manager of the International Society of Sustainability Professionals.