Mariottta is the African American Sexual Health Equity Program (AASHEP) Health Educator for Multnomah County Health Department, STD/HIV/Hep C Program.
She is a graduate of the Center of Excellence in Sexual Health Scholars Program at Satcher Health Leadership Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine, in Atlanta; and has been awarded a Masters in Public Health from Emory University.
Amy's serves as the Political Manager for Basic Rights Oregon. Raised in Idaho, Amy has deep roots in social justice activism. She started volunteering for LGBT rights campaigns at the age of 14 and never looked back. Amy has been active in progressive movement building in the West for over 12 years and her roles have included Executive Director of the Idaho Human Rights Education Center and Oregon State Director for Working America. Amy has also served as Board Chair for Western States Center since 2007. She's deeply passionate about building political power for LGBT communities and centering racial and gender justice in our work. Her professional experience ranges from human rights advocacy and labor organizing to electoral management and award-winning journalism.
Laura Isiordia is the CAPACES Leadership Institute Executive Director. Laura was born and raised in Mexico, and immigrated to Oregon in 1985. She was Social Service Coordinator for the Farmworker Housing Development Corporation, and then Community Leadership Director, where she oversaw FHDC's educational leadership programs, community organizing, and one-to-one resident services. Laura is widely recognized in her community as a leader in the health education and outreach sector.
She has been the principal investigator for several research studies in the Latino farmworker community. She recently co-authored an article published in the Journal of Biosocial Science, linking discrimination to negative health impacts. Laura also has shared her skills by training at AMP, and most recently served on the Advisory Committee which launched the Center's We are BRAVE program, where she continues as a cohort participant.
Kate is the Legislative Director at the Center for Community Change (CCC), a national social justice organization, and has been an activist for women's rights and economic justice for more than 20 years. She has both personal and professional experience with poverty and has utilized that experience in her capacity as the executive director for a local economic justice organization based in Montana (WEEL).
Prior to joining CCC, Kate served as Professional Staff for the Senate Finance Committee as well as Director of the Work and Family Program for the National Partnership for Women & Families. Kate's passion for the West and gender equality finds a welcome home in the Center's work.
Ericka Taylor is the Executive Director of the DC Fair Budget Coalition. Prior to joining FBC, she served as the Development Director for The Other 98%, a netroots organization dedicated to ending the corporate control of the U.S. political system. She worked as a community organizer with the Washington, DC chapter of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and trained young people and youth organizers as the Southeast Regional Program Coordinator for YouthAction, based in Albuquerque, NM. Beginning in 2000, Ericka joined the philanthropic community, working as a Program Officer at the Public Welfare Foundation in Washington, DC, where she directed funding to organizations working on issues that included low-wage worker organizing, living wages, affordable housing, homelessness, predatory lending and fair taxation. She has served as a member of the Board of Directors or Steering Committees of the National Organizers Alliance, Progressive Technology Project, and Youth Education Alliance and is currently a board member of the National Priorities Project.
Scott is a member of the Organizing Collective of Seattle's Coalition of Anti-Racist Whites and active with Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), a national network of white people doing base-building work in white communities. He is a member of the LGBTQ Access Project's National Advisory Board. As a Policy and Development Lead for the City of Seattle Race and Social Justice Initiative, he is working to transform government-community relations in order to create racial equity. He also teaches at the University of Washington School of Social Work.
Sharon is the Executive Director at McKenzie River Gathering Foundation.
Sharon continues her lifelong commitment to racial and social justice through consultations with nonprofits and philanthropies. She is the former national programs director of the National Black Women's Health Project, and former National Programs Director of Be Present, Inc., a national organization dedicated to training black women and girls, other women of color, and white women, to work together to build a social change movement in a world where racism, classism, and homophobia still exist and historical barriers have divided us.
Leah is coordinator of Native American Women's Dialogue on Infant Mortality. She has extensive experience on issues ranging from violence against women of color to tribal sovereignty. She is a member of the Nez Perce Tribe and a graduate of the Center's WILD (Western Institute for Leadership and Development) program.