Rhea Graves, BAAdministrative Coordinator
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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 NurCommunications Coordinator
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Stephanie Roberson, MSWCo-Director
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Brianna C. Bragg, MSWCo-Director
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Mia Arvizu
Organizational Learning Program Coordinator
they/them
mia@theuprisecollective.org
(971) 930-6659
Mia is a queer chicane liberation ruminator. The passion for their work
stems from their love of imagination and need for non-oppressive
futures and presents. The foundation of Mia’s work is nourished from
their experience working in Cultural Resource Centers, communications,
and studying environmental well-being, ethnic studies, recording
family history, and from their artistic and herbalist practices.
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. |
Lucinda Law IRJ Team Member she/her Lucinda is a rising junior at Lewis & Clark College, majoring in Economics and double minoring in Hispanic Studies and Latin American Studies. Lucinda is originally from Northern California and has been involved in civic engagement efforts since elementary school, and is excited to dive into the UPRISE Collective. She is the current co-president of the Mixed Race Student Union at Lewis & Clark College, particularly passionate about restorative justice and immigrant advocacy. Lucinda is also huge Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny fan as well as always ready to talk musical theatre. She looks forward to working with the rest of the UPRISE team this summer in supporting Portland’s (and beyond) BIPOC community! |
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