Tamia came to grassroots organizing after being diagnosed with breast cancer and post-traumatic stress. Her journey back to wellness without adequate resources taught her that the people most impacted by injustice must also be the ones who identify the problems and implement the solutions and inspired her to found a nonprofit in 2017, PDX Alliance for Self-Care, focused on improving access to care for her community. Her work during the pandemic, protests, and wildfire response of 2020 connected her with an invaluable mutual aid network and a vast community of first responders, healthcare providers, and activists. That experience continues to inform her consulting work at the intersection of health equity and climate justice.

Tamia finds joy in mentoring young people and helping BIPoC, LGBTQIA+, and neurodiverse students access educational and leadership opportunities. She is a passionate healthcare advocate in her role as a Community Health Center Board Chair and founding board member of BIPoC Paramedics of Portland.

Tamia is a die-hard fan of the one and only North London football team, Arsenal Gunners. She also enjoys dancing, gardening, hiking, doing yoga, and cooking for her loved ones in her hometown of Portland, Oregon.

Judith (jee-deet) is an Afro-Haitian American, female identifying, cis-gender, queer licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She currently resides in the lands of the Northern Paiutes, the Wascos, and the Warm Springs bands. Judith has gained a lot of experience in the field of mental health and continues to challenge her learning and education through seeking support in decolonizing mental health and the way she provides services, creates, teaches and supervises. She is also a university faculty member and is currently a doctoral candidate in a Marriage and Family Doctorate program specializing in program development focusing on increasing parent engagement with adolescents in residential treatment. Judith has years of experience working with outpatient clients through her private practice, Triune Health & Wellness, providing clinical supervision and development in the areas of systemic therapy and healing justice for mental health professionals seeking licensure, and working in Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare Programs as a Nature-Based therapist and Family Program Manager for parents with adolescents in residential treatment. Judith is Program Director and Operations for Liberation Pathways Healing Space which focuses on seeding liberation through remembering, connecting, and healing for historically marginalized populations. For pleasure and joy, Judith enjoys Caribbean music and dance, singing and participating in community theater, traveling internationally and taking time to rest!

Ubaldo works as a community organizer with Columbia Riverkeeper in Hood River, conducting community outreach on clean water while promoting equity, inclusion, and diversity. Ubaldo has been an active member in the Latinx community in the Columbia Gorge, participating in projects that promote awareness on issues that are relevant to Latinxs in Oregon and Washington. In the last 15 years, he has launched and participated in multiple projects benefiting the Latinx community, including the local community radio station Radio Tierra. In his free time, he enjoys mountain biking, fishing, and hiking in the Columbia Gorge.

Ricardo Luján-Valerio is Portland City Commissioner Carmen Rubio’s Transition Liaison and Policy Director. Ricardo’s background covers immigration, education, election, and criminal justice policy. He previously served as Director of Advocacy at Latino Network, Policy Associate for the ACLU of Oregon, and as Legislative Director for the Oregon Student Association. Ricardo has been a leader in the passage of various state legislative priorities, such as HB 2015 (Driver Licenses for All) and SB 1008 (Youth Sentencing Reform). Most recently, he was a co-architect of the Oregon Worker Relief Fund, a multi-million-dollar disaster relief program for Oregon’s immigrant community. He previously served as Vice Chair of the City of Portland’s Open and Accountable Elections Commission. He was born in Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico, and graduated from Southern Oregon University with a BS in Business and a certificate in nonprofit management.

Abigail is the first generation of her family born in the USA to Filipino parents. Her paternal grandfather survived the Bataan death march and, via creative use of the GI Bill, in one generation shifted from subsistence rice farming in the rural Philippines to a family of teachers, lawyers, accountants, and nurses on three continents. And one granddaughter (me) whose vocation in life defies her family’s abilities to encapsulate in one word. 

Based in Portland, Oregon, Abigail has lived and worked over the past twenty years in the Philippines, India, Senegal, Kenya, Italy, Peru and Ecuador, with organizations like the United Nations, the Wildlife Conservation Society, The Lemelson Foundation, the Government of Uruguay, Portland State University and IMPAQTO, a social enterprise accelerator in Ecuador. She loves working in partnership with diverse groups of people to learn, co-create and re-imagine together the systems we work in. This is often through supporting the conditions that allow for power-sharing in philanthropy, community-led philanthropy, mentoring and coaching nonprofit and for-profit social venture leaders, and facilitation of global community impact networks organizing for racial and climate justice, healing, and thriving people and planet. She has also worked as a professional cellist and gymnastics instructor. Abigail earned a M.Sc. in Environmental Science from Yale, hold a B.Sc. in International Politics from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service, and a certificate in International Law from the Universite Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar in Senegal. 

She love languages, is fluent in English, Spanish and French, and knows enough to get into trouble in Portuguese, Italian, Tagalog, Ilocano (Philippine dialects) and Wolof (Sénégal). When not in front of a computer, she grows food in her garden, sings with her teenagers only slightly off-key, accompanied by various musical instruments cluttering up the family room, dances with her husband or finds ways to get outside.