Tenant Outreach Fund

Teresa has worked as a Community Health Promoter and dedicated more than 35 years to community health promotion, designing and implementing programs for the well-being of the Latino community. Her work in Hood River, with initiatives such as La Familia Sana and Madres en Marcha, has focused on domestic violence prevention, mental health, and family strengthening. I facilitate the HAPA (Self-Responsible Men to Stop Abuse) group. Facilitating support groups and promoting resilience and addressing difficult issues using the philosophy and methodology of Popular Education, to bring hope to those places of struggle where we witness how people can transform their lives and the world around them. Teresa has also designed curriculum and trained Community Health Promoters in culturally diverse communities, locally, statewide, and nationally. Teresa is a Certified Instructor in Nia, Yoga and Social Justice, as well as Trauma-Informed Yoga, and Yoga and Therapy. Teresa integrates movement, healing, and social awareness into her teaching. Her commitment to social justice, liberatory theology, and holistic well-being inspires those around her to build a healthier, more equitable world. I am one of the founders of Natural Leaders. We are a group of community members who have organized, trained, and engaged in promoting healthy communities. Our vision> We seek to improve our health, holistic and cultural well-being of our families and communities where we live, equity and social justice to live a full, healthy, happy and safe life.

Steven Crawford is an attorney and housing advocate, and has been active in Oregon since 2016. He moved from Montana to attend law school at Willamette University College of Law. Upon passing the Bar, he opened his own practice briefly to assist Oregonians facing hardship in their housing, accepting cases at a reduced rate in order to assist low-income housing consumers. He then worked with Legal Aid Services of Oregon for about six years with a focus on housing. He has been the legal director at Fair Housing Council of Oregon since July 2024 and is now focused on ensuring everyone has an equal opportunity to have safe, affordable housing.

Rebekah joined Neighborhood Partnerships in April 2022. Originally from the high desert in eastern Washington, she moved to Portland in 2013 to attend the University of Portland where she studied rhetoric and graduated in 2017. She’s currently a Master’s of Urban and Regional Planning student at Portland State University. Rebekah’s work background has primarily been in copywriting and developmental editing for nonfiction works. She leads several tenant organizations, grassroots campaigns for tenant rights and wants renters everywhere to recognize tenancy as a political position. In late 2023 she became the Housing Alliance Coalition Organizer.

Rebekah writes essay and creative nonfiction. She also runs a small zine press, likes playing table top RPGs, board games and reads too many fantasy novels.

Kim is committed to addressing the struggles of renters in Oregon. She recognizes that central to that struggle are systemic and historic barriers to housing, economic and environmental justice faced by people of color, women, indigenous communities, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities. She believes that CAT’s model of community engagement, education, and advocacy works to empower renters to make the changes they need.

Kim’s career includes community organizing, contract management, and policy development. She has a wide range of housing sector experience including affordable housing development, property management, and housing policy with a focus on renters and Fair Housing.

In all of her work, she has brought the values of equity, diversity, and inclusion. She plans to build on these values with the passionate board members, employees, and members at CAT.

Lisa Rogers is Deputy Director at CASA of Oregon and has been with the agency since 1999. She is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the agency to ensure that the CASA purpose and values are implemented. Lisa has demonstrated accomplishments in financial management, administration, program and project development, supervision, analysis and problem-solving. She serves on the Chehalem Parks and Recreation District Board of Directors, and the Chehalem Cultural Center Board of Directors.

Prior to CASA Lisa worked for 10 years as a float manager, business manager and housing manager. She spent 2 years in Brazil working at an American Brazilian school as their business manager and one year in Guinea Bissau working with United States Agency for International Development. She holds a B.S. in Economics from the University of Washington and has completed the Achieving Excellence Program sponsored by NeighborWorks America and Harvard University.

Garlynn is a fifth-generation Oregonian, urban planner, and DJ dedicated to building equitable, walkable communities powered by cooperation, culture, and climate action. With nearly three decades of experience in regional planning, housing policy, urban analytics, and development, he leads PLACE Initiative, a national nonprofit advancing people-centered, climate-resilient urbanism.

He also runs the planning consultancy Woodsong Associates; chairs OR Co-Op, the Oregon Cooperative Housing Network (OCHN); and is the Owner and Managing Broker of FORMA Realty. His work includes co-developing UrbanFootprint at Calthorpe Associates; serving as the first Regional GIS Planner at the San Francisco Bay Area’s Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC); and pioneering Portland’s adaptive re-use conversion of single-family homes into fourplexes under modern code.

The elected president of the Cascadia chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), Garlynn also serves on the UN-Habitat World Urban Campaign steering committee. As DJ Grynn, he creates community-centered dance and art experiences that spark joy, connection, and belonging.