Mary Beth Henry Biography

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Mary Beth Henry has over 24 years experience working in local government. She is currently the Deputy Director of the Office of Cable Communications and Franchise Management for the City of Portland, Oregon and the Mt. Hood Cable Regulatory Commission. She also serves as a member of the League of Oregon Cities Broadband Standing Committee. Over the last eighteen years she has focused her attention on legislative and policy issues related  to maintaining local authority (to provide communications services, tax and charge franchise fees) and to promoting communications policy in the public interest.  More recently she has been deeply involved in local government efforts to protect the public interest as legislative efforts on communications policy move at the State and federal level. In her spare time she enjoys exploring the wonders of Oregon with her husband of 28 years and her two boys, who insist on growing up despite her best efforts to keep them young.

Education includes a B.A. in Political Science from St. Michael’s College in Winooski, VT  and graduate school at the HHH Institute of Public Affairs at the University of MN.