Alyshia Macaysa-Feracota

[Kānaka Maoli]
[she/her/hers]

Alyshia is a nationally recognized public health practitioner, community organizer,  and the founding Executive Director of the Oregon Pacific Islander Coalition. Her body of work includes systems-shifting initiatives focused on life-affirming justice and decolonized public health practice.

She has led historic initiatives including the City of Portland’s Smart City PDX Community Leads Program,  Oregon Public Health Division’s Pacific Islander Data Modernization project, and the Oregon Resource Allocation Advisory Committee.

Her community organizing roots include her time at the Berkeley Free Clinic, San Francisco Dyke March, UTOPIA PDX, and GABRIELA Portland. She previously held a governor-appointed seat on the Pacific Islander Student Success Advisory Committee, a university presidential appointment to Portland State University’s Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions Program, and a chair appointment to Multnomah County’s Public Health Advisory Board.

Alyshia has been honored as an Indigenous Data Champion by the Indigenous Data Alliance, Culture of Health Leader by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and a Distinguished Alumna of UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare. 

Outside of the office Alyshia enjoys art history, sci-fi, swimming, and spending time with her beloved dachshund and OPIC’s demanding Chief of Staff, Nani.