Commissioner Dan Saltzman’s Staff Gets a Shake-Up

Longtime policy director, Shannon Callahan, will become an assistant director at the Portland Housing Bureau.

(Thomas Teal)
By Rachel Monahan

Shannon Callahan, who has worked for Commissioner Dan Saltzman for a decade, most recently as policy director, is leaving his office.

As of Aug. 1, she’ll be assistant director of the Portland Housing Bureau, a new position overseeing the housing bond—which she helped to structure.

"She gets to watch her baby grow up," says Brendan Finn, Saltzman's chief of staff. He then offered "1,000 percent assurances" that Saltzman is running for reelection.

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