ROBIN WISNER
OCCUPATION: Pastor Under The Blood Ministries,
OCCUPATIONAL BACKGROUND: Culinary Arts
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: Associate of Art, A.L. Hardy Academy of Theology
PRIOR GOVERNMENTAL EXPERIENCE: Member of Afro American Legislation Roundtable
Robin Wisner a Community Activist has served in the Portland general community for well over 15 years. He moved to Portland , Oregon in 1989 and has been married his wife Elra Wisner for the past 14 years. They have 4 sons Eddie, the late Ronald Spencer, Kevin, and Robin Jr.
He has been involved in a broad array of issues, areas of the community and constituencies. He has worked from Gresham to Beaverton and from Portland to the State Capitol in Salem.
He has worked in a number of ways as a volunteer the Portland Police Bureau, on their Hiring Review Board, Crises Response Team, Ride Along as well as a number of other areas. As a minister he serves on the Albina Ministerial Alliance Board of Directors and has been involved in a number of ecumenical endeavors.
As an activist he has been responsible for either coordinating or strategically assisting in the coordinating of a number of significant community projects, the Rosie Parks Blvd renaming, Caesar Chavez Interstate name change attempt, coordinated the march to bring together City of Portland and Northeast community together for Portland Police Officer Mark Zylawy well known as Z-man, leading intervention in quelling a number of incidents of youth violence in the City of Gresham with the Chief of Police and the Mayor, serving as the community outreach arm of Home Town Buffet for various functions all over the city.
As a charismatic caring person for the wellbeing of humanity he has been very successful in bringing people together from all walks of life in a large number of ways, politically, socially, spiritually etc. He has served with all the various levels of leadership in making our city a better place and challenging every known kind of problem we face. As many have said, the city of Portland is a better place because of him.
(This information furnished by Robin Wisner)
The above information has not been verified for accuracy by Multnomah County.