Marcus C. Mundy has served as the Coalition of Communities of Color’s Executive Director since 2018. Prior to joining the CCC, Mr. Mundy was Principal at Mundy Consulting LLC, an Oregon state certified minority small business. His practice assisted clients in various disciplines including but not limited to: achieving equity, diversity and inclusion in personnel, contracting, supplier diversity, development and administrative areas; and achieving compliance with respect to applicable laws, regulations and accreditation standards for healthcare businesses and others. 

Prior to his role at Mundy Consulting, Mr. Mundy served as the President and CEO of the Urban League of Portland, was the Vice President and Regional Compliance Officer for Kaiser Permanente Northwest, and has held a host of other leadership positions. 

Mr. Mundy attended Howard University in Washington, DC, receiving his Bachelor of Business Administration, and attended Howard University's Graduate School of Business. He received his Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Oregon’s Executive MBA program. 

Mr. Mundy has served the community through his participation on numerous boards and community advisory positions, including the OHSU Foundation Board, the State Labor Commissioner’s Oregon Council on Civil Rights, the Oregon Community Foundation’s Regional Advisory Initiative, the Coalition for a Livable Future,  EcoDistricts (formerly Portland Sustainability Institute) and, currently, the Governor’s Racial Justice Council. 

He is also a Senior Fellow in Oregon’s chapter of the American Leadership Forum, our state’s premier leadership training group for over two decades. His proudest achievement, however, and forever, is as a father to his four children.

As Deputy Director, Jenny supports organizational and coalition development and various strategic and advocacy initiatives at CCC. She previously served as CCC’s Advocacy Director and the Advocacy Director at APANO. Jenny has dedicated her career to racial, social, and economic justice. Previous roles include Housing Policy Director at Neighborhood Partnerships and the Public Policy Director for the Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice. In those positions, Jenny employed a range of advocacy strategies, including electoral advocacy, lobbying, coalition building, strategic communications, and litigation. Jenny grew up in Washington County, and her earlier background includes work in disability and family law and mediation, as well as a year serving as an AmeriCorps member at a SUN School in the Jade District. Jenny holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy, French, and political science from the University of Oregon. You can contact her at jenny@coalitioncommunitiescolor.org.

Jenny also serves as the Managing Director of CCC’s 501(c)(4) affiliate organization, Building Power for Communities of Color. For any political inquiries, you can reach her at jenny@colororegon.org.

Joliana joined CCC after working for 12 years in corporate manufacturing at Intel as a program and commodity manager, where she managed a variety of technical and non-technical programs. Additionally, Joliana was an active member and volunteer of several employees resource groups that supported the local community including Women of Intel, Network Of Intel African Americans, and American Veterans of Intel. She’s also an active member of Thinkers and Tinkerers, a Hillsboro School District program which expose middle school students to STEM and STEAM activities. Joliana focuses in many organizations providing knowledge and support to accelerate young minds.

Joliana is a retired military officer with multiple deployments to combat zones including Bosnia and Iraq.  Over her career, she successfully coached and mentored numerous young men and women to achieve their full potential.

Among her accolades are a Bachelors of Arts in Psychology from Saint Martin’s University, a Masters of Arts in Organizational Leadership from Chapman University, and a Masters of Business Administration from the George Fox University Graduate School of Business. You can contact her at joliana@coalitioncommunitiescolor.org.

Lucero joined CCC in 2023 as Development Manager to support fundraising efforts. She is a first-generation Latina, dedicated to serving marginalized communities.

Lucero grew up in Portland, Oregon, and attended Portland State University, where she was a part of M.E.Ch.A., a US-based organization that seeks to promote Chicano unity and empowerment through political action. She completed a double major in Business Finance, Business Administration & Leadership, a minor in Economics, and a Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship certificate.

Most recently, she completed a Certificate in Nonprofit Fundraising in 2023 through WVDO (Willamette Valley Development Officers) and The Nonprofit Institute at Portland State University.

In her free time, Lucero is a mentor with HOLLA, a grass-roots mentoring organization in Portland, Oregon, where she helps change the narrative of youth of color through culturally responsive relationships. She has volunteered with HOLLA since August 2017.

You can contact Lucero at lucero@coalitioncommunitiescolor.org.

Jen Samperio joined CCC in 2023 as the Senior Communications Manager. Most recently, Jen was a senior account executive before becoming the client services director at a national political consulting firm specializing in direct mail. With nearly a decade of strategic communication experience, Jen has worked with a diverse list of campaigns spanning candidates running for elected office, ballot measures, and advocacy and education initiatives for 501(c)(3) and (c)(4) organizations. She is passionate about increasing diversity in government and shaping stories that empower communities of color and immigrant communities.

Born and raised in Oregon, Jen holds a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Political Science from the University of Oregon. Outside of work, Jen enjoys spending quality time with her rescue pup, Honey, and experimenting with new recipes in her kitchen. You can contact her at jen@coalitioncommunitiescolor.org.

Taren Evans is the Coalition of Communities of Color’s Environmental Justice Director. Before CCC, Taren worked as Neighborhood Revitalization Manager at Habitat for Humanity Portland/Metro East where she worked along with Living Cully partner organizations, Verde, Hacienda CDC, and the Native American Youth and Family Center (NAYA) on anti-displacement efforts in the Cully neighborhood. Prior to that she worked for the City of Portland at the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability where she focused on applying an equity lens to the 2015 Climate Action Plan. Taren serves on the Parks and Nature Equity Advisory Committee for Metro and as a Steering Committee member for the Cully Boulevard Alliance. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland, College Park and a Master’s degree in Urban Planning from Portland State University. You can contact her at taren@coalitioncommunitiescolor.org.

Nikita grew up in Irvine, California and received her Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Policy Analysis and Planning from UC Davis. After graduating, she spent two years working alongside low-income, communities of color in California’s San Joaquin Valley at Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability, based in Fresno. There, she coordinated community-led advocacy efforts around transportation equity, air quality, agroecology, and land use planning to drive investments to disadvantaged, rural communities throughout the Valley. Nikita worked with community partners to develop advocacy strategies and elevate environmental and climate justice priorities at the local, regional, and statewide levels. More recently, she received her Master of Development Practice from UC Berkeley, where her academic research focused on community-driven approaches to development and international environmental policy. You can contact her at nikita@coalitioncommunitiescolor.org.

Santi Sanchez joined CCC in 2022 as the Climate and Health Coordinator, where they support the work of CCC’s environmental justice program by building CCC’s role in addressing the health impacts of climate change. Santi grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and received their Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Management and a minor in Natural Resources from Cal Poly Humboldt. In 2018, Santi served as the Environmental Sustainability Officer for both Cal Poly Humboldt’s Associated Students and California State Student Association representing over 500,000 CSU students on a statewide level. In 2020, they moved to the PNW and joined Hacienda Community Development Corporation. Santi worked in the new Arrobas Program that addresses the digital divide that especially affects low-income communities of color. You can contact them at santi@coalitioncommunitiescolor.org.

Dr. Andres Lopez is a trained sociologist and professional research and evaluation scientist. Academically, his training and research centered on how inequalities of race, gender, and sexuality are reproduced in organizations and urban settings. He has expertise in a wide range of research methodologies that utilize feminist, anti-racist, and queer theories.

He has over ten years of experience conducting action research meant for solving social/practical problems and equitable evaluations of programs, processes, and organizations. Andres’ applied research experience is highly collaborative, partnering with various stakeholders across governments, universities, and grassroots, community-based, and nonprofit organizations.

Andres received a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology from Xavier University and Master of Arts degree in sociology from University of Missouri-Kansas City. His doctoral training began at Iowa State University, where he finished his doctoral coursework in the sociology department and earned a graduate certificate in Education for Social Justice. Andres holds a Ph.D. in Applied Anthropology from Oregon State University. You can contact him at andres@coalitioncommunitiescolor.org.

Dr. Mira Mohsini is a trained cultural anthropologist. She has conducted ethnographic research in India on urban craft economies, with a focus on how Muslim artisans adapt, survive, and create in the midst of multiple intersecting forms of marginalization. She has developed and taught university-level courses on Islam and Muslim societies, race and racism, gender and sexuality, immigration, and research methods.

Mira has also worked as a researcher and evaluator on multilateral international development projects in South Asia. Her experience in participatory action research has driven work around co-constructing sustainable livelihood strategies, program monitoring and evaluation, and capacity building with grassroots coalitions and nonprofits.

Mira holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London, UK), a Master's degree in Anthropology and International Development from the London School of Economics, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Western Ontario. You can contact her at mira@coalitioncommunitiescolor.org.

Khanya Msibi works as the Data Manager and serves as a data resource for research projects and data organization. Khanya is trained in prevention science, which focuses on understanding and uplifting the strengths of individuals, families, and communities by utilizing multiple social science and public health disciplines. The most important tenet of prevention science is applying the knowledge of how structural oppression influences community wellbeing in the eradication of social and health problems. These principles inform Khanya’s research interests in marginalized community resilience.

Khanya has worked on both suicide prevention and intimate partner violence among LGBTQ community members, including co-facilitating an LGBTQ advisory group to the Oregon Alliance to Prevent Suicide, and work on a comprehensive report of University of Oregon sexual assault data, with a focus on the experiences of students of color and LGBTQ students. As an undergraduate, Khanya served as a student government senator in Spectrum, the LGBTQ campus organization.

Khanya received her Masters of Science in Prevention Science from the University of Oregon, and her Bachelors of Science in Psychology with minors in Human Development and Women and Gender Studies from Ball State University in Indiana. You can contact her at khanya@coalitioncommunitiescolor.org.

Dallas Haley joined CCC in 2023 as their Data Ecosystems Manager and serves as the lead coordinator for the MADE for Health Justice program. Dallas grew up moving across the Southwest United States, and after graduating from Colorado State University in 2019, they settled in Portland in 2020. Dallas earned their Bachelor’s degrees in Natural Resource Management and Environmental Economics, and has collected and managed a variety of data sets ranging from cryptobiotic soil resilience, to the socio-economic issues facing Oregon’s cattle ranchers. Since graduating, Dallas has facilitated community based wildfire management programs for Colorado State Extension, developed food assistance programs for the Come Thru Black & Indigenous Market, and co-founded Open Slopes PDX-- an organization that enables people of color and queer people to connect and grow in snowsports.