Board of Directors
Valdez Bravo
President
Lake OswegoValdez 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
CorvallisMark 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
TreasurerPortland
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
BeavertonZainab 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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Deren Ash
La PineDeren 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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Wes Brain
AshlandWes 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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Melissa Busch
WarrenMelissa 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.
Michael Collins
Warm SpringsMichael 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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Sandra Coyner
AshlandDr. 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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Dr. Antonio (Tony) Germann
Vice President
West LinnDr. 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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Mary Lou Hennrich
PortlandMary 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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Annie Naranjo-Rivera
ManzanitaAnnie 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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Kate Pfister-Minogue
La GrandeKate 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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Hayden Rooke-Ley
EugeneRaised 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.
Rebecca Schoon
PortlandDr. 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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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.
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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