Experience

United States Student Association

• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• First Persons Caucus Chair

  • Nov 2013 - Present



Oregon Student Association

• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Oregon Student Equal Rights Alliance Board Member

  • Jun 2013 - Present

  • LGBTQI student representative from ASPSU on statewide student organizing and lobbying association.• OSERA Representative to the Executive Committee, interim decision-making, agenda setting and facilitation of board meetings.• Drafting of issue briefs, clipboarding, class raps and promotion of the student survey.• OSERA Representative to the Oregon Students of Color Conference 2013 Steering Committee, statewide coordination and steering of conference.

• Oregon Students of Color Coalition Board Member

  • Jun 2012 - May 2013

  • Student of Color representative from ASPSU on statewide student organizing and lobbying association.• OSCC Representative to the Joint Committee, served as Vice-Chair and Interim Chair, set agenda and facilitated board meetings.• Letter writing campaigns, legislative call-in days, written testimonies, organizing for rally days and lobbying for OSA priority issues.• Provided social justice trainings for OSA conferences.



Associated Students of Portland State University

• Equal Rights Advocacy Director

  • Jun 2013 - Present

  • ASPSU liaison to the Queer Resource Center, Women’s Resource Center, Disability Resource Center, Veteran’s Resource Center and the Resource Center for Students With Children.• Provides Social Justice trainings for members of ASPSU, sits on the General Student Affairs Committee, facilitated the planning and authorship of the ASPSU 5 Year Plan and is head of the Vision And Reform Committee.• Runs Equal Rights Advocacy Committee as Executive Director, overseeing four Student Senators.• Authored OSA Disability Justice internal issue brief to integrate Students with Disabilities and the challenging of ableism into the Oregon Student Association.

• Student Senator

  • Apr 2012 - Jun 2013

  • Representative of the College of Urban and Public Affairs (2012) and member of the Multicultural Affairs, Legislative Affairs and University Affairs Committees (2013).• Acted as ASPSU representative to the Native American Student Cultural Center.• Provided Social Justice (Queer and Trans Justice; Racial Justice) Trainings for Interns, canvassing, clipboardinng, classraps, voter registration, drafting of resolutions of the student body, constitutional reformation and drafting of student surveys.

• Volunteer Recruitment and Retention Coordinator

  • Jan 2012 - Nov 2012

  • Recruitment and Retention of Volunteers.• Provide fieldwork and campaign skills trainings for Volunteers.• Canvassing, clipboarding, classraps and Get Out The Vote campaign work for VOTE OR VOTE.• Statewide coordination and steering of voter registration campaign as part of the VOTE OR VOTE Steering Committee with the Oregon Student Association