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 before returning to CCC as the Deputy Director in summer 2020. 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.

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.

Jodi is an experienced project manager with a background in both the tech and nonprofit sectors. She worked with numerous technical teams in the animation field, including Laika and Pixar. Most recently, she worked at APANO in the comms department and has previously worked at IRCO, where she assisted refugees with language learning and finding employment. 

Jodi has a strong passion for data and social justice. As an Oregonian, Portland has been home for many years. Additionally, she has lived and worked in many countries, including South Korea, Spain, Portugal, Costa Rica and Russia.

She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Speech Communication from Portland State University and is certified in teaching English as well as data analytics.

You can contact her at jodi@coalitioncommunitiescolor.org

Taren Evans is the Coalition of Communities of Color’s Environmental Justice Director. She has over ten years of experience in collaborative governance and community-driven policy development. Prior to joining CCC in 2019, Taren served as Neighborhood Revitalization Manager at Habitat for Humanity Portland Region where she worked alongside culturally specific community based organizations on anti-displacement efforts in local communities. She also worked for the City of Portland’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability where she focused on equitable climate action planning. 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, with a concentration in Community Development 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. 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 Senior 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 the Coalition of Communities of Color in 2023 as their Data Ecosystems Manager, and serves as the project manager for Portland’s MADE for Health Justice initiative. They grew up moving across the Southwestern United States, and after graduating from Colorado State with Bachelor's degrees in Natural Resource Management and Environmental Economics, dallas settled in Portland, Oregon.

dallas has collected, analyzed, and applied a variety of data sets at the intersection of community and government – ranging from cryptobiotic soil resilience in the Chihuahuan Desert, to the socio-economic issues facing Southern Oregon’s cattle ranchers, to the connections between urban design and air pollutant exposure in Berlin, Germany. dallas now spends the majority of their time at CCC’s Research Justice Institute facilitating connections between community and government, managing the development of community-led data ecosystems, and imagining worlds where community data shapes both urban and natural landscapes.

Polet Campos-Melchor is a Xicana from Guanajuato and grew up in Fresno, California. She works as the Research Associate and is a trained anthropologist. Polet works with her community’s principles of service and relationality to help her serve in gathering and analyzing data. Her ethnographic and research skills will help her build the Research Justice Institute’s public presence with a new blog and support research through its various stages. 

Polet has worked as an Instructor of Record and Graduate Researcher at the University of Oregon. She works with Indigiqueer farmers and communities of color around love and kitchen practices. Informed by her time spent in her grandmothers’ kitchens in Guanajuato, Mexico and Hollister, California, Polet’s work traces how communities of color articulate strategies of belonging and food sovereignty, expanding beyond only the imaginary into tangible strategies of survival. She grew up in the San Joaquin Central Valley, which has informed her work with communities of color and her commitment to sovereign foodways. 

Polet received her PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oregon and a graduate certificate student in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She also has her Masters of Arts in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oregon, and her Bachelors of Arts in Cultural Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies from California State University, Fresno. You can contact her at polet@coalitioncommunitiescolor.org.

Tara Liu is a Data System Administrator at the Research Justice Institute, where they build and maintain data systems and conduct quantitative data analysis. Trained as a computer scientist, they bring extensive experience in computing for social good, applying data science and engineering to challenges in public transit accessibility, climate change, and supply chain optimization. Tara believes that technology should empower and unite marginalized communities, rather than reinforce systemic oppression.

Previously, Tara worked as a Research Assistant at the Resilient Futures Lab at Georgia Tech, where they designed and implemented an efficient data infrastructure for large-scale geospatial datasets, supporting research on the impact of extreme weather on power grid resilience. They have also held roles as a full-stack software engineer, machine learning engineer, and data analyst across public and private sectors.

Beyond their professional work, Tara is an active open-source contributor to a range of research and advocacy projects, including initiatives in queer (non-binary and aromantic) community support, feminist web technology for gender-based violence response, and Natural Language Processing, particularly in LLM development.

Tara received their Master’s degree in Computational Science from Georgia Institute of Technology, with a Lavender Scholar Certificate and AI Safety Initiative Fellowship. They also hold a bachelor’s in Urban Planning from Beijing Forestry University. You can contact them at tara@coalitioncommunitiescolor.org.