Photograph by Emily Deisroth.

Hi! I’m Jessica Riehl, a designer, artist, facilitator and mother charting new territory in “systems scribing” and parent-supported elementary school art programing. I uses collaborative and visual-based processes to gain insight and empower change. My colleagues have called me a “complexity artist” and I’ve been hired as a “creative midwife” helping to get new ideas out into the world. I love to create spaces for connecting with each other, finding new ways of working together, and exploring artistic expression. I spend many hours volunteering as an elementary school art teacher and helping with equity and diversity initiatives in my son’s school district. I’m a former Naval Officer and farmer’s daughter living in Tigard, Oregon.


Clients Include:

  • Artisan Plastic Surgery

  • Athena Group

  • Authentic Leadership Center at Naropa University

  • Central Pacific Conference: United Church of Christ

  • Clackamas County Early Learning Hub

  • College Housing Northwest

  • Concepts in Community Living

  • Confluence Environmental Center

  • Energy Trust of Oregon

  • Government Performance Consortium

  • Great Camp Sagamore

  • Human Systems Dynamics Institute

  • Marathon Oil: Anacortes Refinery

  • Middlebury Institute

  • Oregon Department of Agriculture

  • Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission

  • Oregon Solar Energy Association

  • Our Table Farm

  • Park City Arts

  • Pratt and Larson

  • PSU Impact Summit

  • Resonate Consulting

  • Rotary Club of Portland

  • Samara Group

  • Technical Assent


Trainings:

  • Human Systems Dynamics Associate, Human Systems Dynamics Institute, 2019

  • Foundations and Advanced Visual Practice, Presencing Institute, 2018 and 2019

  • Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, 2018

  • Brain Based Coaching, NeuroLeadership Institute, 2018

  • Authentic Leadership Certificate, Naropa University, 2016

  • Level 1 Improv, Brody Theater, 2015

  • Graphic Facilitation, The Grove, 2015

Education:

  • M.F.A. Pacific Northwest College of Art, Collaborative Design, 2015

  • M.S. Johns Hopkins University, Environmental Science and Policy, 2013

  • B.S. Oregon State University, Environmental Science, 2000