Our Team

Meet Our Team

Rhea Graves is a medium brown skinned person with brown glasses and medium length dark brown hair. Rhea is gently smiling in this photo and is seated in a white chair in front of a mirror.

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.

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Etawi O'Byrne, DAOM, LAc

Disability Justice Community Coordinator
she/her
disabilityjustice@theuprisecollective.org
(971) 930-6885

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.

Etawi is a light brown skinned person with long brown hair. Etawi is smiling in this photo; she is wearing a black down vest, and is standing outside in front of a fence and green plants.

Fatima Nur

Communications Coordinator
she/her
communications@theuprisecollective.org
(971) 930-6815

Fatima is a multilingual of Somali & Yemeni origin who’s passionate about engaging underserved communities who don't speak English as a first language & disability justice. She has experience in community organizing with a focus in advocacy for victims of interpersonal violence.

Stephanie Roberson, MSW

Co-Director
she/her
stephanie@theuprisecollective.org
(971) 930-6844

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.

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Stephanie Roberson has light brown skin, shoulder length straight black hair, dark brown eyes, and is wearing a blue shirt. Stephanie is smiling without teeth in this photo.

Brianna Bragg has light brown skin, black glasses, and long, straight dark brown hair. Brianna is wearing a gray shirt, a nose ring, and is smiling in this photo.

Brianna C. Bragg, MSW

Co-Director
she/they
brianna@theuprisecollective.org
(971) 930-6974

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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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 is a medium brown skinned person with dark brown eyes, and blond hair with dark roots in this photo. Virginia is wearing a geometric black and white shirt and is speaking into a microphone.

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.

Steph Ng Ping Cheung is a light brown skinned person with brown glasses and a dark brown buzzcut. They are smiling without teeth in this photo; they are wearing a green jacket with a dark blue sweater and a light blue collared shirt, and are standing in front of pink flowers.

Shilo George is a light brown skinned person, who in this photo is wearing a metallic gold shirt, red sunglasses, and a fur pashmina. Shilo is striking a sassy pose.

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!

Caitlin has light brown skin and shoulder length black hair with a purple streak in the front. They are wearing a light blue tank top with a tattoo of two marigolds on their left arm.

Lucinda Law is a medium brown skinned person wearing a black jacket with a faux fur hood in this photo. She has long black hair, dark brown eyes, and she's standing outside in a crowded area.

Caitlin Chow-Ise

IRJ Team Member

she/they

Caitlin is a chronically ill queer hapa femme of color. She is
passionate about sex education and community work. They run
@thes3xtalk on Instagram, a place for folks to learn and grow about sex, pleasure, and more. Caitlin is highly concerned with the intersections of race, queerness, and access. She is currently a senior at Lewis & Clark College studying sociology and anthropology and is writing their thesis on race in the social media sex positive space. Caitlin is a staunch supporter of interdependence and mutual aid— making UPRISE a perfect fit. Caitlin is a big sticker lover, small artist admirer, and mail fanatic (a passion she fulfills by working at the campus mail room). They are really excited to be in community and kinship at UPRISE this summer.

Meet Our Team

Rhea Graves, BA

Administrative Coordinatorshe/heradmin@theuprisecollective.org

Etawi O'Byrne, DAOM, LAc​Disability Justice Community Coordinatorshe/her​​disabilityjustice@theuprisecollective.org​(971) 930-6885