Sarah Mulligan Williams

Sarah is the principal creative behind Word of Mouth, a multidisciplinary creative studio that partners with organizations on marketing, visual identity, media production, and more. With people-first leadership rooted in empathy, compassion, and collaboration, Sarah prioritizes working with small disadvantaged businesses and women entrepreneurs to help realize their creative vision. She is the host and programmer of Comedy 101 at the iconic Hollywood Theatre in Portland, OR, where she gushes about foundational comedy films. Sarah is currently based in Oakland, CA, with her partner and their dog, Marty McPug.

Kathryn Latham

Kathryn is an independent consultant who helps growing businesses optimize their operations, drive growth, and elevate their communications. After a degree in structural engineering from Duke University and a decade of leading projects, partnerships, and teams to exceed business goals, she left a senior-level corporate team to start Latham Business Solutions in 2021. Outside of business, Kathryn enjoys mountain-top vistas, eating her way around new cities, gardening wherever there’s soil, and being an A+ dog mom. She and Intersectional Group have joined forces on Pay Transparency reports, a website re-design, fundraising, and more.

Yeruwelle de Rouen

Yeruwelle de Rouen is the founder and CEO of Intersectional Innovations. She is an Equity, Belonging, and Inclusion (EBI) subject matter expert with over 15 years of active experience leading the roadmap for organizational effectiveness that creates equitable inclusion within climate and institutional policy procedure.

Cristina Lumague

Cristina is a freelance podcast editor/producer and an indie podcaster. She is self-taught and found her love for podcasts in 2020. Since then, she has worked with huge, small, non-profit, history and paranormal podcasts. All sorts of podcasts, especially those focusing on diverse voices. Everyone has a story to tell, Cristina makes sure to get the best version of that story out there. 

Eliana Mendez

Eliana Mendez (she/her) is the Creative Director at Human Centric Media, a strategic narrative agency with a trauma-informed approach. Together they engineer the narrative gravity to help clients pursue their mission, grow their capacity and step into earned leadership in their communities. Human Centric Media's inclusive, values-aligned clients include Planned Parenthood, TASTE for Equity, the Northwest Health Foundation, the University of Oregon, Hacienda CDC, Leach Botanical Garden, Pacific Northwest College of Art, OHSU Foundation and Metro.

Eliana lives in SE Portland with her dog Lola, within walking distance of at least a dozen people she loves, and three world class turkey sandwiches.

Kjell van Zoen

Kjell Van Zoen is a serial entrepreneur, a senior energy efficiency consultant, and a DEI consultant who specializes in helping leaders who identify as white learn and do better. Kjell is a home barista and coffee snob who also enjoys hiking, biking, yoga, travel, sci-fi books, writing, art & design, music, guitar, photography, and food.

Sydney Morrison

Sydney is a multifaceted community health organizer. Survived cancer at a young age, Sydney is now a personal chef for clients with specific dietary needs, cooking wholesome meals that center around fresh and local produce. She is also a certified menstrual cycle coach, navigating tough cycle challenges in 1:1 sessions, group workshops, and more, for all menstruating humans. An east coast girl on a west coast adventure, Sydney is a loving dog mom and waterfall enthusiast. In her free time Sydney enjoys reading fantasy novels written by women of color, trying new things, and exploring Portland, Oregon.

Shae Noble

Shae Noble (she/they) is the founder of Trauma-Informed HR, where she helps organizations design people systems that support both performance and stability. As a Human Resources executive and Interim Chief People Officer, she partners with leaders navigating growth, transition, and cultural change—bringing clarity to complex environments.

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With over 15 years of experience across healthcare, higher education, nonprofit, technology, and global organizations, Shae specializes in aligning culture, compliance, and operational strategy in ways that are practical and sustainable. Her work is grounded in trauma-informed leadership, helping organizations move beyond reactive systems toward ones built on clarity, consistency, and accountability.

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Shae collaborates with the Intersectional Group on projects that translate equity into real-world practice, supporting organizations in building workplaces where people and business thrive together.

Miryam Valdrom

Miryam Valdrom is a leadership & burnout coach, transformational speaker, Navy veteran, and first-generation immigrant who has spent years studying one question: why do high-performing people keep hitting the same ceiling no matter how much they achieve.

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The military gave her strategy. Growing up across cultures gave her the relational intelligence to build community, move people, and lead when the odds are not in your favor. She brings both to every stage, helping leaders and organizations close the gap between high performance and actual results by getting underneath the patterns that drive ambition and updating the ones quietly working against it.

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She is the creator of The Pionera Path™, a liberatory coaching framework that guides powerful women from survival mode to capacity and agency. Through coaching, hypnosis, and storytelling, she is building a movement where strong women no longer have to push through to succeed.

Cam Yenokida

With more than 20 years of leadership and executive experience, Cam Yenokida works alongside leaders and teams to strengthen alignment, build trust, and improve how organizations function. His work is grounded in firsthand experience navigating complex challenges—balancing stakeholder expectations, operational demands, and team dynamics.

As Founder and Principal of Achieve Excellence, Cam partners with organizations to help leadership teams operate with clarity and intention. He creates high-trust environments that encourage candid dialogue and meaningful growth.

Cam blends practical tools with proven frameworks to help leaders translate insight into action—reducing friction, increasing capacity, and executing with greater confidence and cohesion.

Lee Wilmoth

Lee Wilmoth is a learning designer, strategist, and facilitator with over 10 years of experience. Through their independent consultancy, Learn & Work, they blend human-centered design, adult learning, and facilitation to deliver engaging learning experiences for leaders and teams that improve culture and organizational development. Lee has worked across many sectors including government, tech, retail and healthcare (to name a few). Whatever the context, Lee embeds joy and play, nervous system awareness, and equity and inclusion approaches to build solutions that are useful, usable, and desirable. They hold a M.A. Ed in Adult Learning and Development from Portland State University and are a LUMA Institute certified Human-Centered Design Practitioner and Facilitator.

Rose Kaz

Rose Kaz is a visionary leader &  lifetime entrepreneur committed to building business for good. As founder of LBI Digital, she pioneered accessible tech tools for entrepreneurs, focusing on underrepresented communities. All of Rose's work centers on closing the wage gap through interactive programs like digital cohorts and live events.  Just over a year into calling Portland home, Rose is excited to focus on projects that drive innovation & true equity through technology, which she calls "tequity." Kaz's next big launch is building Business 4 Good, a Women-focused, AI support group going live on Nov 11, 2024.

Shi Choong

Dr. Shi Choong is an event planner. Born and raised in Malaysia, Shi’s life took an unexpected turn at 15 when her parents abandoned her and her siblings. As the eldest, she became the caretaker for her three younger siblings, ages 13, 11 & 8.

When Shi moved across the continent to the US, she faced language barriers, loneliness, and financial hardship, working four jobs to fund her college education. Despite these struggles, she graduated as the department honoree in Chemistry and Biochemistry from San Francisco State University. Shi later earned her PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Purdue University, which is the top program in the U.S. She was also the former license-holder and organizer for TEDxPurdueU, planning events with an audience size of 50 to 1,000. 

On Sept 30, 2024, Shi quit Intel to be a wedding planner to plan the happiest day of people’s lives. In addition to weddings, Shi also plans unforgettable and meaningful events including Women Who Dare.

Pallavi Pande

Pallavi Pande is a BIPOC mompreneur from Oregon and founder of DTOCS, a brand creating classy, compostable tableware for events, foodservice and hospitality, and DTOCS Consulting, a full-service Amazon growth partner firm, helping brands grow on Amazon. Recognized as one of America’s Top 100 Businesses, Stevies GOLD winner, a Tory Burch Foundation Fellow, and INC fastest growing females honoree, she also leads a 2,000+ member South Asian moms group in Oregon and serves on the board of Naturally Seattle. When not building businesses or mentoring founders, she’s likely dancing Zumba or sipping wine—always championing People, Planet, and Parties.

Maryanna Aster

Maryanna Aster is a branding, creative, and content director in Portland, Oregon. As a former mission-driven business owner, Maryanna seeks out purpose-driven projects and nimble, visionary teams. In her free time, Maryanna writes and publishes poems and essays, builds her astrology and tarot business, and wanders around in natural areas appreciating natural design.