Meet Our Team

Etawi O'Byrne, DAOM, LAc

Project Manager
​Disability Justice Collaborative
she/her
​​disabilityjustice@theuprisecollective.org

Dr. S. Etawi O'Bryne is a multiracial Indigenous womxn and the Project Manager for the Portland Disability Justice Collaborative. She has a formal education from the Oregon College of Or***l Medicine, is chronically ill, disabled and medically augmented, and has lived experience in the houseless community. Etawi has been and is many things and no one identity takes away from any other. She is a true believer in the power of community and mutual aid. Etawi also has an extreme weakness for coffee, plants, sci fi and her dog, Merlin.

Stephanie Roberson, MSW

Co-Director
she/her
stephanie@theuprisecollective.org

Stephanie Roberson has 18 years of experience in education and social change work. Stephanie has worked as a middle school teacher, K-5 school administrator, and a mental health practitioner with children from targeted communities. 

Rhea Graves, BA

Administrative Coordinator
she/her
admin@theuprisecollective.org 

Rhea Graves is a fierce advocate for her community. She has worked in homeless services, resident support, and is a master organizer! Rhea graduated Portland State University with a BA in Political Science and Gender and Sexuality Studies. 

GP/Grace Piper, BA

Communications Specialist
they/them
communications@theuprisecollective.org

GP comes from a mixed race working class background and is trans masc, nonbinary, and queer. GP has worked in higher ed, non-profits, and in the community for the last 7 years, focusing on opening spaces for QTPOC.  When they're not working, GP enjoys gardening, herbalism, cooking for loved ones and community, and being a nuisance to all systems of power. At UPRISE, they work part time managing communications, social media, and offer support wherever they can.   

Brianna C. Bragg, MSW

Co-Director
she/they
​brianna@theuprisecollective.org

Brianna Bragg, Ihanktonwan Nation. is a fat, queer, two-spirit, biracial womxn who roots her work in relationship, with liberation and healing as the goal. Brianna has over 15 years in professional early childhood education, social services, macro social work, clinical mental and behavioral health, and advocacy. 
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​Virginia Luka, MA

Facilitator
she/they

Virginia Luka was born in Palau and raised on Guam before moving to Oregon 16 years ago. She graduated from Portland State University with a Masters of Science in Educational Leadership and Policy with an emphasis in Leadership for Sustainability in Education in 2016.
Shilo M George, MS
Facilitator
she/her
​Shilo George, MS (she/her) is Southern Cheyenne-Arapaho and Scottish international speaker, trainer, and owner of Łush Kumtux Tumtum Consulting, which means “a great awakening of the heart and spirit” in the Chinuk Wawa trade language. Shilo interweaves cultural traditions and spirituality with an anti-oppression lens and reindigenization practices to promote healing and empowerment in herself and others in the communities she is a part of. 
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Steph Ng Ping Cheung, MSW
​Facilitator​
she/they

Steph identifies as a multiracial, butch-adjacent, queer woman and has worked in the field of anti-violence for the past ten years. Steph values radical community based coalition work and is invested in critical dialogue and transformational care.



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