Team Members & Organizations

Sustainability for ALL Team

Hope Yamasaki

Hope Yamasaki MS, Holds a masters degree in the Leadership for Sustainability Education from Portland Sate University. She received a Bachelors of Social Science from PSU in 2008 with course work focusing on environmental science, social equity and grassroots organizing. She won the 2012 Presidents diversity award for the diversity work that she did on the PSU campus. She has presented at numerous Sustainability events including the The AASHE conference in Los Angeles and the Global Sufficiency Summit at MIT. She served on the board for The Earth Wisdom Alliance. She also holds a certificate in Permaculture design. Hope is passionate about creating an inclusive movement so that we may all work together to create an environmentally sustainable and socially just future for ALL that will last for generations to come. Sustainability for All has been a dream of Hope's for several years and she is very excited and looking to collaborate for more workshops and dialogues in the future. Feel free to contact here @ HopeYamasaki@sustainability4all.org

Nichole Martin

Nichole Martin is a Junior at Portland State University majoring in Social Science with a focus in Early Child Education. Nichole’s passion towards sustainability was not sparked until she was taught to critically unpack the correlations between race and sustainability in a class she took at PSU. This new lens she was given to look through enabled her to see her community and its urgent need for awareness and change. She has become a committed member in her community; volunteering her time in the classroom, and supporting local youth through tutoring and mentoring. Nichole is an active member of the Urban League Young Professionals chapter in Portland, Oregon and seeks every opportunity to support their outreach goals locally. She has traveled abroad to both Port-au-Prince, Haiti and Juarez, Mexico to assist in the urgent needs of emerging nations. She intentionally seeks opportunities to immerse herself in unfamiliar cultural perspectives where she is acutely aware of “otherness”; enabling her to disengage her Westernized narrative. Nichole is adamant about empowerment and her ability to impact change wherever her hands reach. As she inches along towards personal progress she reminds herself: if not this, what? If not me, who? And if not now, when?

__Ridhi D'Cruz,

Ridhi D'Cruz, Social Sustainability Liaison Masters Candidate, Cultural Anthropology I'm a socio-cultural anthropologist from India, interested in grounding the contemporary sustainability movement (especially the Australian design philosophy - Permaculture) in Traditional/Local Ecological Knowledge, using themes like food, shelter, appropriate technology, craft, music and medicine. After my graduate program, I want to meet some of the unique creatures in American biomes before I get started on a new project in India or Brazil.

Leanna Linville

Leanna Linville is a Graduate Student in the Leadership for Sustainable Education program at Portland State University. She has been working for Social Sustainability through Social Health for the past 12 years. Currently a coordinator for the Sustainability Leaders Network, Leanna has dedicated her time to focusing on inclusiveness and discovering the root problems of exclusion. She is now looking to collaborate and discover new ways to bring Social Sustainability to all.

Margaret Breithaupt

"Hi! I'm Margaret Breithaupt and I'm a Senior at Portland State University majoring in Accounting and minoring in Black Studies. Odd combo you say? Well I believe that social sustainability will be achieved through a multidisciplinary approach. By talking to each other and sharing our differences our neighborhoods and communities gain strength."

Saria Dy: Event Photographer

Saria Dy is a sociology major, women's studies minor. She has a passion for photography and fascination for human interactions.
E-mail: saria_dy@yahoo.com Online photo-journal: sariady.tumblr.com