Amanda is currently an organizer at the Rural Organizing Project. She leads ROP's racial justice and immigrants rights work, and supports capacity and organizing skills development in 30 of ROP's human dignity groups throughout the state. She has also worked for trade justice, as a labor organizer, and in her mother's home country of El Salvador with a network of Christian Base Communities. "The MRG grantee groups are on the front lines of building a powerful multicultural movement strong enough to build the new society we're all striving for - it is such a privilege to be part of that process."

Patricia was born in El Salvador, and is the first in her family to earn a university degree. Her indigenous roots taught her to fight for social change early on: she started activist work when she was nine years old. She currently volunteers for social change groups in El Salvador, California and Eugene. She is the Board President of Amigos Multicultural Services Center, a social change agency promoting human rights and immigrant rights. She is also the co-founder and program director of Juventud FACETA, a leadership development program for Latino youth.

Kayse is a founder and executive director of the Center for Intercultural Organizing (CIO), which builds power in immigrant and refugee communities through education, civic engagement, organizing and intergenerational leadership development. CIO was funded early on by MRG Foundation, so Kayse has firsthand experience of the impact of MRG grants on building the movement. Born into a nomadic family in Somalia, Kayse left when the civil war erupted, and finally found sanctuary in Portland.

Andrea is Associate Director of CAUSA, Oregon’s Latino immigrant rights organization. CAUSA educates, organizes, and mobilizes Latino immigrants and allies to defend and advance immigrant rights at the state and national level. Andrea became involved with the immigrant rights movement while in college. She began as a student activist and volunteered with Voz Hispana on their voter registration campaign. After graduating from college in 2009, Andrea decided to return to her hometown to work with CAUSA. Andrea was born in Eugene and raised in Salem, Oregon.

David Rogers currently serves as the executive director of Partnership for Safety and Justice (PSJ), a statewide advocacy organization based in Portland, Oregon. PSJ works to make Oregon's approach to public safety policy more just and more effective. David brings 20 years of social change organizing and non-profit experience. If he wasn’t busy enough already, he serves as a board member for a couple of social justice organizations and is active in a range of volunteer capacities. David is also a past recipient of a Charles Bannerman Fellowship for Organizers of Color from the New World Foundation.

Much of Raquel’s social change work has been with young people, particularly youth of color, to address the academic achievement gap. Currently Raquel is the Equity and Human Rights Manager for the City of Eugene. She is also an Masters of Social Work student at Portland State University, facilitates a support group for trauma survivors at the Trauma Healing Center, and teaches in the women in transition program at Lane Community College. All while raising a strong family. “When I became a parent, I recognized that I wanted the world to be a better place for my kids.”