Staff Spotlight: Hannah Fattor
Hannah Fattor joined Sustainable Northwest as a Wood Markets Program Associate after spending several years working at the intersection of forestry and rural economic development. Growing up in a small timber community in southern Oregon, she saw firsthand how the decline of the wood products industry affected families and Main Streets across the region. That experience drives her work today connecting sustainably managed forests with the buyers and builders who need them.
In her role, Hannah helps coordinate supply chain logistics for projects that source wood from family-owned and Tribal forests in the Pacific Northwest. She works closely with landowners to understand their management goals and with architects and contractors to match them with the right material. Her work on the Portland Airport terminal rebuild has been especially rewarding, as it represents one of the largest mass timber projects in the country using regionally sourced, sustainably harvested wood.
Hannah holds a degree in environmental science from Oregon State University, where she focused on forest economics and rural community resilience. Outside of work, she is an avid trail runner and volunteers with a local youth forestry education program that introduces high school students to careers in forest management and wood products manufacturing.
“What I love about this work is that it is not about choosing between the economy and the environment,” Hannah says. “When we source wood from well-managed forests, we are supporting the landowners who do the hard work of stewardship, and we are putting a sustainable product into buildings that will stand for decades. Everyone wins.”