Jilma Meneses

Following a nationwide search, Concordia University Portland announced the addition of Jilma Meneses as chief operating officer (COO). Meneses has served as Portland State University’s chief diversity officer since 2010, serving on the president’s executive committee at the vice presidential level. She has over twenty years of administrative, legal, and business experience, including ten years at Oregon Health & Science University and eight years at Tri-Met. Meneses is also founder and CEO of Our Family Adoptions, a humanitarian aid organization providing resources to orphans in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She received her juris doctor from Lewis & Clark Law School and a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley.