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.

Zainab Alidina

Beaverton

Zainab is a doctoral candidate in Health Promotion and Health Behavior at Oregon State University. She has a Master of Public Health in Maternal and Child Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Bachelor in Economics from York University. She currently works as a Public Health Analyst for RTI International.
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She has extensive global health experience and speaks five languages. She was born in Tanzania and has lived significant parts of her life in both the UK and Canada, which led to her becoming a strong advocate for universal healthcare.

Zainab joined the HCAO board in 2020.

Deren Ash

La Pine

Deren holds a Bachelor in Computer Science from Portland State University and has been developing medical software for 20 years. He also volunteers at St. Charles Hospital in Bend with his therapy dog.
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He became passionate about single payer healthcare in high school, after studying healthcare systems used in countries throughout the world. He recently had a stroke, and despite having "good" insurance, experienced firsthand the pitfalls of the U.S. health insurance system even in the best of circumstances. This has served to increase his passion in advocating for a single payer healthcare system so that everyone can have access to healthcare as a human right.

Deren joined the HCAO board in 2021.

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.

Melissa Busch

Warren

Melissa Busch (she/her/hers) is a Registered Nurse who has been working in healthcare for 15 years and practicing as a RN for 13 years. She worked for Providence for the past 15 years, in areas of Inpatient Rehabilitation where she served multiple roles, including Staff Nurse and Care Manager, then in Home Health visiting patients and their families in rural areas of Columbia, Washington, and Multnomah counties. Recently, Melissa has transitioned to a role at the Portland Veterans Hospital, working with the Polytrauma/Traumatic Brain Injury clinic and Spasticity clinic.

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Melissa has been an Oregon Nurses Association member through the majority of her professional career, involved in union activities and was formerly a member of the ONA PAC Board where she gained knowledge of the Oregon Legislature, elected officials, healthcare legislation, and advocacy. Melissa has also served as a Board Member for multiple non-profit organizations over the years, and is just ending her term as Vice President of the Board for Open Adoption & Family Services, a pro-choice all-options adoption agency that serves pregnant people and families in the Pacific Northwest.

Melissa is a graduate of EMERGE Oregon, class of 2020, and ran for Oregon State Legislature in 2022 for Senate District 16, which represents the NW corner of the state, including Columbia County, Clatsop County, and Tillamook County. While she did not win her race, she developed relationships with many legislators and elected officials across all levels of government, labor partners, and champions for healthcare reform in Oregon.

Melissa lives in Warren, a small rural community in Columbia County, NW of the Portland metro area, with her husband, Jason, her two daughters, Mabel Jay and Bonnye Ray, and her step- son, Tucker. Collectively they have one loyal Chocolate Labrador, Charlie, one goofy French Bulldog, Mack, one gecko, Pebble, and one chinchilla, Goose (the later two she was talked in to by her persuasive children, but Melissa loves them more than she expected).

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.

Annie Naranjo-Rivera

Manzanita

Annie Naranjo-Rivera is a Cuban-American community leader who got an early start as a grassroots organizer. Her focus is on advocacy work around economic, racial, social, & environmental justice, and the intersection of these.
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Annie was previously Legislative staff and Constituent Services Specialist for Senator Rachel Armitage. She has formerly done work with Unite Oregon, a statewide non-profit which represents immigrant and refugee communities, POC, and people experiencing poverty throughout the state.

Annie has directed progressive campaigns nationwide for organizations such as NARAL, Clean Water Action, and the OR AFL-CIO Working America, and has managed numerous campaigns for candidates with universal healthcare as a cornerstone of their campaigns.

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 will be returning to Oregon to clerk 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 Assistant 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.

Staff

Maribeth Healey

Executive Director

Maribeth Healey has served in a variety of nonprofit, government and campaign roles for over two decades. From labor and environmental issues to health care and civil rights, Maribeth has been fighting for justice since she was a young child. Growing up in Massachusetts the political bug bit her early. She worked on her first campaign at the age of 10 and hasn’t stopped since.

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Healey has been instrumental in building winning coalitions heralded with passing statewide and local measures as well as achieving legislative victories in Florida and Oregon. In 2008 she was recognized as the Families USA Health Advocate of the year. US Senator Jeff Merkley tapped her as his Deputy State Director where she served until 2012 when she returned to the east coast.

Prior to joining Health Care for All Oregon, Maribeth worked on a myriad of projects promoting the Affordable Care Act. These activities included education, enrollment and advocacy activities throughout the country.

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.