Alyshia is a community organizer, freelance health equity strategist and nationally recognized practitioner through Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Culture of Health Leaders Program. Her work centers on building environments and lifting up movements that deepen the political consciousness and strengthen the leadership of those most impacted by injustice. This journey has led her to work across the workforce development, housing, public health, and tech sectors to uproot the many toxic policies and practices that drive racial inequity.

She is a former Mass Campaigns organizer for the National Democratic Movement of the Philippines through GABRIELA Portland, and a current board member of United Territories of Pacific Islanders Alliance’s Portland Chapter. In her professional capacity Alyshia sits on Multnomah County’s Public Health Advisory Board and advises the City of Portland through SmartCityPDX.