우리 직원

Kate Williams (she/her) serves as the Director of Advocacy Supports at the Disability Equity Center. Kate has supported the disability community professionally for twelve years, with experience serving folks across the lifespan and in both the private and non-profit sector. She is especially passionate about cross-disability community organizing and holistic health and wellness programming. She loves cats, yoga, and radical social justice!

Zina Allen (she/they/Z) is a Corvallis artist and poet. Their art is an outlet and a way for them to create while living with disabilities. They are inspired by the concept of social symbiotic relationships and the idea that equity is possible. Their work joins layers and different ways of seeing things to represent the complexities they observe not just in their own life but also the world around them. They work as an architect, designer and wellness and equity ambassador at the Disability Equity Center. Zina recently received the Paul Harris Fellow award from the National Rotarians for their multiple volunteer efforts.

Laura Estreich (she/her/hers) is the Peer Health Facilitator. Laura was born with Down Syndrome to a family she loves and is close to. Laura describes working for the DEC as her dream job. She loves to travel, going between the East Coast and Corvallis, where she sees her friends. Laura identifies as part of the IDD community and believes working in the disability community is important.

Cameo Ariel K. Perrells serves as our Event and Fundraising Coordinator. She was born and raised in Hawaii and is also an interior design student at Oregon State University in the College of Business.
Cameo volunteers as the Disabled Students Union club president and a Statewide Transportation Improvement Fund (STIF) committee member. Her passions are swimming, camping, cooking, and baking for her home-kitchen-licensed business.
우리 이사회

Allison P. Hobgood은 만성 빈곤에 처한 개인을위한 주간 자원 및 커뮤니티 허브 인 Corvallis Daytime Drop-in Center의 전무 이사로 근무하고 있습니다. 그녀는 이전에 Willamette 대학에서 영어와 여성 및 젠더 연구 교수였으며 현재는 장애 및 노숙자 정의를 위해 조직하는 풀뿌리 커뮤니티에 초점을 맞추고 있습니다.

Abby Mulcahy is a co-founder of the Disability Equity Center. Abby completed their PhD in public health at Oregon State University and is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care at the VA Portland Healthcare System, as well as a Delivery Systems Science Fellow through AcademyHealth.

Rebecca Olson은 Oregon State University의 영어 부교수입니다. 그녀는 트라우마에 입각 한 비판적 교육, 노동 계급 학생들을 지원하도록 설계된 프로그램,보다 포괄적 인 개방형 교육 리소스를 통해 교육 접근성을 높이는 데 열정적입니다.

Kate Schilke (she/her) is a process engineer at HP, Inc. and a certified sex coach.
Our Community

Lzz Johnk served as a media and website volunteer for the DEC. They are currently a visiting professor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Grand Valley State University. They previously worked as an Archival Assistant for the OSU Disability Archives.

Skyler Scott is a DEC intern. They are a student at Western Oregon University. Their major is Interdisciplinary Studies with focus areas in American Sign Language and Writing.

Mike Volpe cheerfully and relentlessly pushed us to do better in serving people in Oregon and brought a perspective to our work that was both personal and deeply considered. We credit him for helping shape programs in Oregon that redefined how long-term services and supports should be delivered.