Portfolio showcase
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Living Cully
Kristen Albertson 2021
Working as a Community Recovery Fellow with a comprehensive neighborhood initiative in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Proud Ground
Gabriellah Howell 2021
Helping prospective homewoners understand the community land trust model.
Gresham-Ebetsu Sister City Association
Larisa Yermakov 2021
A comprehensive portfolio organized around maintaining an international exchange program during the pandemic.
Learning Gardens Laboratory
Nicole Schenk 2021
Expanding on capstone project to learn about food systems and building community capacity in the form of ecoliteracy.
Victory Project
Conrad Czuba 2021
Working with a program that serves meals to the unhoused, including shifting gears during the pandemic.
RTCCD Vietnam
BreAna Loranger 2021
A virtual internship with a Hanoi's Research and Training Center for Community Development, along with a wide variety of other leadership activities featured in the portfolio.
African American Economic Empowerment during Covid-19
Leigh Quenton 2020
In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, creating a tipsheet on how to sway influence in local business, political, and financial favor of Black Oregon residents through mostly daily actions. (unmentored field experience)
Sexual and Gender Minority Youth Resource Center (SMYRC)
Gabby Kornahrens 2020
Creating space for queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, person of color (QTBIPOC) people at a youth center.
Worker Cooperatives as an Economic Development Strategy for Individuals Exiting Transitional Housing
Sam Carlson 2021
Independent research during the pandemic.
Rockwood Community Development Corporation
Annabelle Rancour 2020
Food justice work in Portland/Gresham's most diverse neighborhood.
Portland: Neighbors Welcome
Ben Westphal 2020
Housing policy advocacy--remotely during the Covid-19 pandemic.
City of Tigard Planning Department
Journie Gering 2020
Learning the operations of local government, including how interpret all those zoning maps!
Janus Youth Programs
Scotty Johnson 2020
A community development perspective on working in a youth shelter.
Columbia County Board of Commissioners
Kyra Ritz 2019
Learning the inner workings of a small rural government, including constituent services and public engagement related to broadband internet access.
Pacific Islander Coalition
Austin Delos Santos 2020
Working with the Multnomah County Health Department to launch a new culturally responsive partnership.
Ka'Way Monti/Peru study abroad
Emme Shoup 2019
Learning by doing in a permaculture training program in the Peruvian Andes. With Spanish lessons!
Student Sustainability Center, PSU
Karen Torres-Olguin 2019
As Cultural Sustainability Coordinator, creating more equitable programming though a taskforce and on- and off-campus partnerships.
Trash for Peace
Alondra Flores Aviña 2019
Leading promotores/ environmental educators to educate and advocate for an equitable waste and recycling system.
Russell Elementary School
Megan Moser 2019
Working to promote non-motorized transportation and safe journeys to a school in East Portland.
Nepali focus groups at Rosewood Initiative
Tsering Sherpa 2019
Conducting outreach to connect a new ethnic population to Rosewood Initiative's work in East Portland.
Asè Leadership Program
Red Hamilton 2019
Creating a leadership program for PSU students of the Pan-African diaspora.
YAE! Camp
Ariana Simon 2019
Designing and running a multidisciplinary dance and street art camp for female, femme, and non-binary youth.
Wattles Boys and Girls Club
Jiaxing Lai 2018
Becoming part of an after-school program in a diverse neighborhood, including modeling conflict resolution skills.
Community Alliance of Tenants
Megan Kidd 2018
Assisting with a fundraising "sprint," convening the Oregon Tenant Assembly in Salem, conducting interviews and helping to create the Tenant Power handbook.