Our Friends & Partners

Oregon’s Kitchen Table Project Teams

Each Oregon’s Kitchen Table brings a set of unique needs and characteristics, depending on the topic, the scope, and the impacted communities. For each project, we assemble a project team that includes OKT staff as well as people with different skills and expertise that will meet project and community needs. We often work with a team of multilingual and multicultural facilitators, community organizers, translators, interpreters, graphic designers, student interns, and PSU faculty and staff. Many of our partners and consultants have been part of OKT teams for many years and on many projects.

Angela Nguyen (she/her)

Illustrator and graphic designer

Angela is a Vietnamese-American illustrator and graphic designer based in Portland, Oregon, drawing inspiration from nostalgia, fashion, cartoons, and video games. She uses design as a tool for healing and connection, capturing life’s joys, human emotions, and the beauty of everyday moments.

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Jacque Fitzgerald (she/her)

Jacque has been a community partner with Oregon's Kitchen Table since 2022. With her background in education and a special interest in futurism, she helped shape the first year of Hatfield Future's as project manager for the pilot program in 2023. Jacque is an artist and the founder of Resonance Institute where she offers support for a more relational and embodied future.

Maria Delgado

Maria Delgado has worked with Oregon's Kitchen Table for over a decade on many projects. Over the years, she has helped OKT create its approach to organizing people to share what they think with decision makers.

Meaghan Lingo (she/her)

Meaghan Lingo has worked at Portland State since 2022, supporting both the Center for Public Service's Public Service Fellowship program and Oregon's Kitchen Table. In her role, she works closely with students, government agency partners, and community members across Oregon.

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Robin Teater

Robin has partnered with OKT as a facilitator on a range of projects, as well as in her previous role as director of Healthy Democracy in the implementation of Oregon's Citizens Initiative Review and the state’s first Citizens Assembly. She has worked in the democracy reform and leadership development space for over 20 years, and currently provides support to the dean of the School of Social Work at PSU.

Jes Phillip (she/her)

Jes is a Pacific Islander from the island of Chuuk, Micronesia. She's been a passionate community organizer and leader for more than 15 years with the Pacific Islander community in Portland, Oregon. Outside her community, she also connects and works with youth groups from ages 13- 21. Currently, she serves as a staff on the Multnomah Youth Commission.

Damon Isiah Turner

Damon Isiah has been a Project Consultant & Facilitator on a range of projects for Oregon’s Kitchen Table, since 2017. In addition, he serves as the Managing Director of Know Agenda Foundation (KAF), which serves as a Fiscal Partner to OKT’s project, Hatfield Futures.

Alana Rader (she/her)

Alana is a Geographer and professor of Environmental Studies at Lewis & Clark College in Portland OR. She has worked with Oregon’s Kitchen Table in multiple capacities since Fall of 2024, most notably to support OKT community engagement efforts through undergraduate student collaborations and as a Program Guide for Hatfield Futures. Alana runs the Land Lab at Lewis & Clark College, with research and mentorship focused on landscape regeneration and community environmental engagement.

Olga Sher

Olga Sher is a PR specialist, founder of Health & Life magazine, and a well-known voice in Oregon’s Russian- and Ukrainian-speaking community. She works with survivors of domestic violence and serves on the boards of several nonprofits, helping to strengthen and support the community.

National Policy Consensus Center

NPCC advances the use of collaborative governance methods in Oregon and nationally through innovative services, education, and research that help people collaborate to address public policy disputes and implement community-based solutions. NPCC is housed within the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government in Portland State University's College of Urban and Public Affairs.

Center for Public Service

The Center for Public Service is housed within the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government in Portland State University's College of Urban and Public Affairs. CPS synthesizes the Hatfield School's teaching, research and service-related activities and applies this practical knowledge to build leadership and improve the effectiveness of public service professionals and organizations.

APANO

APANO has been uniting Asians and Asian Americans in Oregon to build power, develop leaders and advance equity through organizing, advocacy, community development and cultural work for more than 25 years.

North Star Civic Foundation

North Star creates collaborative spaces where civic leaders develop visionary solutions to complex public interest problems. We take an entrepreneurial approach and invest our time and financial resources to accelerate change. We focus on democracy and shared prosperity — because we believe that these are the building blocks for a hopeful future.

Know Agenda Foundation

Know Agenda Foundation provides an advisory and administrative role in supporting community capacity building efforts and deliberate strategies to address sustainable solutions to improve outcomes, by partnering with unaffiliated community-based groups and state incorporated organizations that do not have 501©(3) tax status designation, to provide Fiscal Sponsorship.