Our Team
Claire Marie
Since 2015, Claire has led efforts to support community and systems level trauma informed and resilience practices through education, implementation, and evaluation. Her work spans across school emergency preparedness & management, school safety & prevention systems, non-profits, the private sector, and law enforcement mental health and wellness. Claire has a Bachelor of Science in Public Health from Oregon State University, received the Culture of Writing Award in Public Health, and graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2012.
Working across different sectors to support collaboration, she helps to build more well-connected, trauma informed systems. The goal of her work is creating sustainable change to help groups adapt and thrive. She has experience working in the fields of healthcare, systems change, and law enforcement. Claire is the owner and primary consultant of Flux Consulting, LLC, the creators of Sammy & Friends.
In her free time you can find her on the water, adventuring with the family, or playing with her Great Dane, Murphy.
Dan Kraus
Dan has served his community since 1986, first as a commissioned officer in the infantry of the United States Marine Corps and then as a police officer in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area. Since retiring from police work, Dan has worked with school districts throughout the state of Oregon assisting districts with emergency operations planning, site, threat and vulnerability assessments, and school threat assessment integration into school protection and prevention efforts. Dan has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administrations from Oregon State University graduating in 1986.
One of Dan’s focuses in working in school emergency management has been to bridge the divide between first responders and the school community to ensure that schools in a crisis know how to obtain the best possible results for students.
Dan is a volunteer with Team Rubicon, a veteran-based agency that responds to natural disasters around the world. He has deployed to disasters throughout the country including flooding in Kentucky and Hurricane Ian in Florida in 2022.
In his free time you can find him on the mats doing Brazilian jiujitsu, travelling with family, or sipping bourbon.
From her earliest days in the crib, Izzi absorbed every picture book that she could get her hands on - she read them all, she drew them all, and she smelled all the pages. Many broken pencils and torn up pictures later, she went on to create art for dozens of children’s books, activity books, animation, and games. Her clients include Oxford University Press, the Concordia Publishing House, the United Methodist Publishing House, Insight Editions, Big Sunshine Books, and TJX Canada. In the Spring of 2024, she will be making her debut as an author with the picture book “The Royal Donkey,” published by Ascension Press.
In her free time, Izzi loves exercising, taking (very) long walks, reading good books, discovering great cinema, and watching cute animal videos on YouTube.