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Rhea Graves, BACoordinator of People & Culture
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Etawi O'Byrne, DAOM, LAc
Dr. S. Etawi O'Bryne is a multiracial Indigenous womxn. 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.
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Fatima IbrahimCommunications Coordinator
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Stephanie Roberson, MSWCo-Director
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Brianna C. Bragg, MSWCo-Director
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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. |
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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. |
Gabby Perez Winder
Gabby is a non-binary queer person of color. They were raised in Peru up until age 12, then immigrated to the U.S. with their mom and 2 younger sisters. They lived as an undocumented immigrant for almost 20 years, during which they mastered a lot of survival skills which have helped them also thrive in this country. Once having the privilege to be able to attend school, they chose a field where they could exercise their passion for social justice and advocacy. They are currently pursuing an MSW degree with a focus on macro level work as it aligns with their desire to build relationships with targeted communities and collaborate to uplift the work and joy each community brings. Besides their internship here with The UPRISE Collective, they work in the Early Childhood Field as a Home Visitor, where they've grown to learn more about different cultures and family systems/structures and the strengths each individual family brings. When they're not working/interning or attending school, they like to spend time with their family and try out new places to eat. They believe in the importance of food and its healing properties as well as a way to build connections to others in our community.
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Saed Bannoura
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PJ Jimenez
PJ is a queer, nonbinary, Latinx student working with UPRISE while in their first year of Graduate School. They are fairly new to Portland because they grew up in Connecticut with their family. Their parents made sure that they and their sibling were taught the importance of knowing Puerto Rican Culture (especially the food) and gave them a positive outlook on being a POC. They received my bachelor’s in 2022 in Visual Art, they have some background in working with Preschoolers and Geriatric Care. They love to adventure, read, and incorporate art in their daily life.
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Saed Bannoura is a journalist, educator, and activist born in Beit Sahour, Palestine. He is a skilled facilitator and speaker in the areas of disability justice, human rights, conflict resolution and the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
He co-founded the International Middle East Media Center and has been Editor in Chief since 2005, reporting daily on the impacts of the Israeli occupation on the Palestinian people. As editor and researcher for “If Americans Knew” he carries the responsibility of documenting the deaths of Israeli and Palestinian people killed in conflict in the region. He has spoken at national conferences across the world, including the United Nations for Youth Summit in 2000, where he participated in extensive multicultural conflict resolution training along with youth from Lebanon, the Ivory Coast, Palestine, and various regions of conflict. He has dedicated his life to bringing awareness to what life is like under occupation in the hopes that his community can find peace and healing in justice. Living with a disability has led Saed into disability rights activism, both in Palestine and in the United States. |
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