Kathleen Barnett

Member

Bio coming soon..

Sarah Britt

Treasurer

Sarah Britt is an active CPA with a passion for the arts and creative processes. She focuses her volunteer work on trying to help people navigate the complex financial world.

Alleson Goldfinger

Chair

Alleson Goldfinger is a professional baker and recipe developer. She is a long-time IPRC volunteer who loves tinkering with personal projects, including making zines, risograph printing, and sewing. Alleson believes strongly that creative pursuits should be accessible to everyone and is continually inspired by Portland’s creative community.

Kacy McKinney

Member

Kacy McKinney is Artist-Scholar in Residence at the Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative at Portland State University. She's the creator of Changing the Narrative: Stories of Student Homelessness and Housing Instability (2022), and Changing the Narrative: Epilogue (2024). She recently edited and designed the book: Uprooted: Voices of Student Homelessness (2024). These community-based collaborative research projects use comics to build empathy to change how we talk, teach, and think about homelessness and poverty. She is a 2019 graduate of the IPRC certificate program in comics. She holds a PhD in geography and taught at the university level for 15 years before recently striking out as an independent scholar and artist.

Alley Pezanoski-Browne

Member

Bio coming soon…

Ann Petroliunas

Secretary

Ann Petroliunas is a secondary special education teacher focused on Language Arts and Science. She writes creative nonfiction and loves glue sticks, scissors, vintage Life magazines, and cutting up problematic old texts to make new poems. She is a 2022 graduate of PSU's Creative Writing MFA program, 2017 graduate of the IPRC certificate program in prose, has been a front desk volunteer, and now co-hosts the monthly collage night the first Sunday of every month. She and her gluesticks hope to see you there sometime!

Chealsea Slaven-Davis

Member

Chelsea is Marketing Manager at Boly:Welch, where she leads her team to inspire our community of employers and job seekers to make better, more welcoming workplaces. She's a graduate of Columbia University's MFA in Creative Writing and writes a substack called Some Sundays. 

Leland Vaughan

Member

Leland Vaughan is a printmaker, illustrator, graphic designer, + educator. They co-own Outlet PDX where they get to print, teach, + nerd out about printmaking + zines to anyone who will listen. They believe print is a great equalizer in terms of access to information + mutual aid — they consider it their life’s work to make print + design as approachable as possible to everyone. Leland facilitates workshops, events, + other pop-ups alongside Outlet’s other owner + founder Kate Bingaman-Burt. They also currently teach graphic design as an adjunct professor at Portland State University.

Kate Bingaman-Burt, Designer & Associate Director of the Art+Design School at Portland State University; former IPRC Board President
Pollyanne Birge, Community Engagement & Policy Adviser to Commissioner Eudaly; former IPRC Executive Director
Eve Connell, Managing Editor of University of Hell Press; former IPRC Board Member
Niko Courtelis, Creative Director of PLAZM and Portland Stamp Company; former IPRC Board Member
Lori Damiano, Illustrator, Animator, & Educator
Chloe Eudaly, Portland City Commissioner; Co-founder of the IPRC
Kohel Haver, Partner at Swider Haver LLP
Kathy Kniep, Nonprofit Consultant
Brianne Mees, Co-founder & Co-owner of Tender Loving Empire
Alise Munson, Brand/Content Specialist at HouseSpecial, LLC
Yvonne Perez Emerson, Founder of WeMake
Jay Pontieri, Author & Educator
Ashley Sloan, Visual artist and CPA; former IPRC Board Treasurer
Andrew Stern, Software Developer; former IPRC Board President
George Thorn, Arts & Culture Consultant
Brian Tibbetts, Writer & Editor; former IPRC Interim Director
Bryan Wasetis, Co-founder of Aspect Law