The OFB Work Culture Team is excited to announce that for our Equity Think Tank on Thursday, August 29th from 1:30 – 4:30pm, we’ll be joined by Uprise Collective for an Exploring Disability Justice Training. This workshop provides 101 level content for participants to explore Disability Justice. What does it mean? How do we differentiate it from the Disability Rights Movement? Attendees will learn to articulate the principles of Disability Justice, learn some of the key “dos” and “don’ts” of DJ in the workplace, and explore resources that support further learning. 

When: Thursday, August 29th from 1:30 – 4:30pm
Zoom link: https://oregonfoodbank.zoom. us/j/2119370380
Note: These training materials belong to Uprise Collective and for this reason, this session will not be recorded. We highly encourage all to attend.

About the Trainers:

Stephanie Roberson (she/her)

Stephanie Roberson has 18 years of experience in education, nonprofit, and social change work. Stephanie has worked as a middle school teacher, K-5 school administrator, and a mental health practitioner with unaccompanied immigrant and refugee children. Stephanie’s work includes the development of SixOne, a collective of middle school students across six schools in St. Louis who work to desegregate spaces and engage in policy work that is important to them, in response to the death of Mike Brown in Ferguson, MO. Stephanie is also privileged to have served on the Board for the African Youth and Community Organization (AYCO), and is a founding member of the Oregon chapter of the Association of Black Social Workers. Stephanie has engaged in grassroots policy work at the state and national level, while working and volunteering with people in hospice care, sexually trafficked youth, and youth with significant and multiple disabilities. Stephanie is an experienced teacher and facilitator with respect to restorative justice, decolonizing spaces, equity and liberation work, and culturally humble curricula and instruction. Stephanie has undergraduate degrees in International Business and Romance Languages and Literatures, a graduate degree in Social Work with a certificate in Human Services Management, and is bilingual in English and Spanish. Stephanie is a woman of color with light skin privilege who loves to garden and to roll around on the floor with her baby boy.

Ginia Ngelemau Orakiblai (she/her)

Ginia Ngelemau Orakiblai, (Orakiblai Clan of Ngeaur), is a queer Belauan born in Belau and raised in Guahan (Guam), occupied lands of the CHamoru people, in a multi-generational home. She honors and uplifts community stories, ensures the compensation of community members for their knowledge, and advocates for data sovereignty to support community healing. Ginia provides community-based research, evaluation, project management and consulting using decolonized methods and popular education principles. Ginia was a PSU University Studies Graduate Peer Mentor for two years before being offered an advisor position with Student Activities and Leadership Programs supporting the academic and pre-professional student organizations. She then went on to the Multnomah County Health Department, where she served as the Program Specialist Senior for our Pacific Islander Communities. She helped to develop, implement, and manage Pacific Islander Data Project, a culturally sensitive, trauma informed, and decolonized data collection and analysis project. They have served on multiple non-profit community boards such as Micronesian Islander Community, Living Islands, and United Territories of Pacific Islanders Alliance Portland (UTOPIA PDX). Ginia lives in SE Portland, with her partner, Chrissy, and their dog, Desi.