Board of Directors

Valdez Bravo

President

Lake Oswego

Valdez holds a Master in Healthcare Administration and a Master in Business Administration from Baylor University, along with a Bachelor in English from Portland State University. He is a Board Certified Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. Valdez also served in the Army for eight years as a medical equipment repair technician and then worked for the next 18 years at the Department of Veterans Affairs. In 2022, Valdez joined the leadership team of the Multnomah County Health Department where he currently serves as Deputy Director.
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Mark Lindgren

Secretary

Corvallis

Mark holds a Bachelor in Horticulture from Oregon State University and is a Corvallis area family farmer. He was previously HCAO Chair from 2001-2012, which included working on the campaign for the single payer ballot initiative Measure 23 in 2002.
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Kevin Geoffroy

Treasurer
Portland

Kevin Geoffroy has been with OCHIN for 13-years. At OCHIN, Kevin is Chief of Staff and oversees corporate governance, strategic planning, marketing, corporate communications, and administrative operations. Prior to his current role, Kevin was OCHIN’s VP of EHR Operations. Kevin has over 30 years of operations and technology experience, has worked with organizations such as Sapient, Arcadia, and Innovatix, and was in the US Army Reserve for eight years. Kevin has a BS in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business.

Vincent (Vinnie) Blanco

Lake Oswego

Vinnie Blanco went to San Diego State University as an undergrad and received a Bachelor degree in both Political Science to gain an understanding of politics and governments and in Sociology to comprehend the development, structure, and functioning of human social relationships and institutions. After graduating from SDSU, Vinnie attended Loyola University of Chicago School of Law where he successfully earned his Juris Doctorate Law Degree. After law school, Vinnie focused and sharpened his skills in Labor Relations, Business Law, Negotiations, Conflict Resolution, Collective Bargaining, and Governmental Affairs.
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Vinnie acquired expertise in private and public-sector unionism, dispute and conflict resolution, grievance and arbitration handling, governmental affairs, collective bargaining, and labor relations. Vinnie Blanco is considered a leader in labor relations and an advocate for racial justice and universal healthcare.

Wes Brain

Ashland

Wes is a retired member-activist with the Service Employees International Union Local #503. He is also a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, Lane Branch. He worked as a firefighter for 16 years with Jackson County Fire District #5, followed by 16 years with Southern Oregon University providing occupational health and safety services for campus employees. He was a delegate for 15 years with the Southern Oregon Central Labor Council, who he worked with to organize Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice. For 12 years, he hosted the Brain Labor Report radio show on KSKQ, the Rogue Valley’s community radio station.
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He believes strongly that healthcare is a human right!

Wes joined the HCAO board in 2012.

Michael Collins

Warm Springs

Michael has worked for The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs for the past 24 years. He started his career there in finance, eventually being appointed Director of Finance and currently works for the Tribes in the healthcare field as the Director of Managed Care.
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He was a member of Oregon’s Joint Task Force on Universal Health Care and currently serves on Oregon’s Health Evidence Review Commission.

Sandra Coyner

Ashland

Dr. Coyner has a Ph.D. in History from Rutgers University. She is a retired Professor of History and Women’s Studies and was director of several university interdisciplinary academic programs. She led in unionizing marginalized faculty and promoting quality in assessment of student learning.
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She is passionate about enacting single payer healthcare because it is a structural, systematic change that will make a big dent in economic inequality and combating racism and other forms of marginalization and oppression. She believes it is powerful and it is possible.

Sandra joined the HCAO board in 2016.

Dr. Antonio (Tony) Germann

Vice President

West Linn

Dr. Germann received his MD from UC Davis and his Master of Public Health from Harvard University. He is a rural family medicine doctor providing care in the Woodburn and Silverton areas, practicing at Salud Medical Clinic, where his other responsibilities include Clinical Medical Director.
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He understands the injustices of our current healthcare system and is a fierce advocate of single payer healthcare across the west coast in the states of California, Washington and Oregon.

Tony joined the HCAO board in 2020.

Mary Lou Hennrich

Portland

Mary Lou holds both a Master and Bachelor in Nursing from University of Portland. She has served Oregonians in a career of public health and healthcare advocacy for more than 40 years. She began as a public health nurse for Multnomah County Health Department and rose through a variety of leadership positions including managing or creating programs related to maternal-child health, health promotion and community-based primary care. In 1985, she implemented Oregon’s first School-Based Health Clinic at Portland’s Roosevelt High School. She was the founding CEO of CareOregon (1994-2003). She then served as Director of the Oregon Public Health Institute, leading work that resulted in laws establishing nutrition standards for foods and beverages sold in public schools and also state and national restaurant menu labeling laws.
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She has also served as chair of the Oregon Conference of Public Health Officials and received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Oregon Public Health Association and Oregon Health Forum.

She clearly differentiates between charity and justice and continues her passionate advocacy for healthcare justice as an HCAO board member.

Mary Lou joined the HCAO board in 2019.

Kate Pfister-Minogue

La Grande

Kate holds a Ph.D. in Nursing and Nurse Practitioner certification from OHSU, a Master in Nursing from Marquette University and a Bachelor in Nursing from University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a retired Certified Nurse Practitioner (NP), continuing volunteer work as an NP.
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During her career, she worked in various hospital and home health nursing roles, including medical surgical care and emergency rooms and as nursing supervisor for a 350-bed hospital. Kate was also an Assistant Professor of Nursing at OHSU’s La Grande Campus, opened one of the area’s first nurse practitioner run clinics and served as its director, and was a primary provider for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Having observed the consequences of the inequities in the availability of quality healthcare as well as the rising costs in many clinical situations, she is committed to helping to achieve high-quality cost-effective healthcare for all Oregonians and hopefully eventually for everyone in this country.

Kate joined the HCAO board in 2019.

Hayden Rooke-Ley

Eugene

Raised in Eugene, Hayden completed his J.D. at Stanford Law School and clerks for Judge Michael McShane in the U.S. District of Oregon. Prior to law school, Hayden was a health care policy advisor to Congressman Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) and a health policy fellow for the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee. He then joined Aledade, Inc., which partners with independent primary care providers and community health centers to help them provide preventive, tech-enabled care. In law school, he has focused his experiential training on health care workforce issues, working with nurses' unions and union-side labor law firms. He has continued to research and publish on issues of health care law and policy, including state-based single-payer, Medicare privatization, private equity, and the corporatization of medicine.

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Rebecca Schoon

Portland

Dr. Schoon holds a Ph.D. in Health Policy with an emphasis in International Health from Oregon State University and is an Associate Professor of Public Health at Pacific University. She teaches undergraduate students a broad curriculum, including studies of comparative health systems, universal healthcare, and how political, economic, and social inequities impact community health. Her fieldwork abroad has included designing and delivering health education curriculum in Ethiopia, consulting on health development projects in Haiti, and lecturing for a research capacity-building program for physicians and nurses in Vietnam.
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Prior to her academic career, Rebecca worked for eight years as a fundraiser for national organizations including Planned Parenthood of America and the Alzheimer’s Association.

Rebecca joined the HCAO board in 2022.

Jackie Leung

Salem

Jackie Leung (she/they), JD, MS, is the Executive Director of the statewide nonprofit, the Micronesian Islander Community (MIC), and is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at Linfield University. Jackie’s background is in public health advocacy, policy, and research. Her interests include traditional birth practices among Micronesians, chronic diseases, and community health workers. She serves in several leadership positions: co-chair of the Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs and a Traditional Health Worker representative on the Oregon Maternal Mortality & Morbidity Committee. In her free time, Jackie enjoys spending time with her family and long scenic drives along the coast and through the agricultural landscapes that make Oregon the beauty it is today.

Patch Perryman

Portland

Patch Adam Perryman got his first job in healthcare as a hospice aide in his southern Oregon hometown at age 14. Since then he has served patients and their providers in successive direct care, managerial, and analytic roles, most currently as Manager of the Health Data Analytic Team for the Multnomah County Health Department.
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Patch has long promoted the philosophy that to achieve universal healthcare is a matter of systematic improvement which takes coalition building, collaborative leadership, equitable resource sharing, and brave planning. He lives in North Portland with his wife and daughter and is an avid reader, listener, and supporter of the Portland Timbers and Thorns Football Clubs.

Sarah Spansail

Medford

Sarah Spansail was born and raised in the Rogue Valley. Despite living in Portland for most of her twenties, Southern Oregon always remained home. This is why she and her husband Zac returned to Ashland in 2013 to start their family. They now have two fun and busy boys ages 8 and 10.
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After returning to Southern Oregon, Sarah began volunteering with HCAO, Rogue Climate, The Rogue Action Center, and Community Alliance of Tenants, among others. This community organizing led her to run for and be elected to Medford City Council in 2020.

Sarah is currently employed by The Rogue Action Center as a Policy Advocate. She re-enrolled at Southern Oregon University this Spring to complete her Bachelor Degree in Innovation and Leadership. Although she is busy, Sarah looks forward to joining the board of HCAO and working to secure single payer healthcare for all Oregonians!

April Sweeney, MD

Portland

April Sweeney, MD is an adult psychiatrist who has been practicing in the Portland metro area since 2007. April joined Cascadia Health, Oregon’s largest community mental health agency and a federally qualified health center (FQHC), as Chief of Psychiatry in 2023. After earning her MD from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in 2007 and completing psychiatry residency at Oregon Health & Science University in 2011, she served as a community psychiatrist in residential, enhanced care, houseless outreach and supported housing programs at, as it was known at the time, Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare.
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Her career since then has involved work as an inpatient psychiatrist at the Portland Veterans Administration Medical Center, psychotherapist in private practice, women’s health psychiatrist and primary care consultant at OHSU’s Center for Women’s Health. From 2018-2022, Dr. Sweeney served as a consultant for the Oregon Psychiatric Access Line, providing in-the-moment psychiatric phone consultation to primary care providers across the state. She is passionate about whole person health care (including primary care, behavioral health, addictions care and specialty services) for all, with a focus on improving health outcomes for those who live with mental illness.

Staff

Trina Bauman

Volunteer & Outreach Coordinator

Trina holds a Master of Business Administration with a focus in Nonprofit Management from Willamette University along with both a Bachelor in Business Marketing and a Post-Baccalaureate in Accounting from Portland State University. She has worked in accounting, government auditing and marketing positions, along with volunteering with several nonprofits over the years. She is excited to be part of the Health Care for All Oregon team and wholeheartedly believes healthcare to be a human right.

Linda Alband

Director of Operations

Linda holds a Bachelor in Technical and Professional Writing, along with an Associate in both Structured Programming and Business Accounting.

She has been a professional fundraiser for more than 20 years. As both a consultant and development staff member, she has raised significant funds to support diverse non-profit organizations and projects. In 2008, Linda earned recognition as a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE)—the global standard for the fundraising profession.
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Currently, Linda holds leadership positions with the West Columbia Gorge Rotary Club and its associated foundation. She is also a founding member of the Women Artisans Resource Enterprise, a newly emerging nonprofit that supports women artisans in the developing world, including training them to produce and sell fairly traded handicrafts internationally. In 2013, Linda was named a Paul Harris Fellow in appreciation of tangible and significant assistance she has given for the furtherance of better understanding and friendly relations among peoples of the world.