Michele “MiMi” Bernal-Graves MS, PHR
MiMi is a passionate volunteer for several non-profit organizations and previously served as Oregon PSR’s Board Treasurer. She and her husband Ben also foster dogs through local dog rescues.
Through various community groups, she volunteers her permaculture and human resources expertise to support local families and small businesses. She is a certified Professional in Human Resources (PHR) and holds a BS in Environmental Science with an emphasis in Biology from Pacific University and an MS in Educational Leadership and Policy from Portland State University.
Kelly Campbell
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Kelly spent 14 years as the Executive Director of Oregon PSR from 2009-2023. She brings more than 27 years of experience in peace, justice, and environmental health organizing. Before joining Oregon PSR as ED in 2009, she served as the Portland Area Peace Program Director for the American Friends Service Committee and was a founding co-director of September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, an organization that has been nominated twice for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Kelly served on the steering committee of the national coalition United for Peace and Justice and worked as the Communications Director for Pesticide Action Network North America, and as Campaign Coordinator for Californians for Pesticide Reform. She is a recipient of the 2019 Visionary Leaders Award from National PSR.
Ben Duncan
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Ben brings nearly two decades of working at the intersections of social, environmental, and economic systems and racial and ethnic disparities. He facilitates public and non-profit management focused on policy and program design, organizational culture change, and best practices in Environmental Justice and DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion).
Ben develops effective and inclusive processes in complex political and organizational environments and in partnering with organizations of all levels — from executive leadership to frontline employees and communities to develop collaborative solutions.
Chisao Hata
Chisao Hata’s work is rooted in movement, drumming, ritual, poetic text, and cultural art forms, and integrates issues of community, historic legacies, identity, place, and justice. Chisao trained in modern dance, Japanese classical dance, theater, drumming, Expressive Arts, and Art as Social Change.
Her recent awards include an Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center (IFCC) 2026 Artist Residency and a 2026 Fields Fellowship from the Oregon Community Foundation and Oregon Humanities for her contributions to the state. She is an Artist for Change at the Dance Exchange in Takoma Park, Maryland, an Oregon Humanities 250 Conversation Leader, and Vanport Mosaic’s “Community Weaver.”
Charles Hudson
Charles is a former Oregon PSR Board of Directors member. He worked as the Intergovernmental Affairs Director at Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission. He is a member of the Mandan-Hidatsa Nation, and he created the Many Dances Family Fund at the Oregon Community Foundation with his three sons, Kent, Cray, and Stone. The fund is named in honor of his great-grandmother Many Dances, a strong, resilient Native woman.
Chuck Johnson
Chuck Johnson was Director of Oregon and Washington PSR’s Joint Task Force on Nuclear Power from 2012-2018. He is a life-long policy analyst and political activist, a fundraiser, and a published writer, specializing in environmental and nuclear issues.
Chuck was Program Director in International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War’s Boston Headquarters beginning in 2018 until relocating to establish IPPNW’s Geneva Liaison Office in 2023. He served as IPPNW-GLO’s first director until May 2026, and continues to serve as its Policy Director.
Yukiyo Kawano
Yukiyo is a third-generation hibakusha (atomic bomb survivor) who grew up decades after the bombing of Hiroshima. Her work is personal, reflecting lasting attitudes toward the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
She received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and her work has been seen in the US, Japan, and Australia. She has lectured around the world and received grants from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, RACC, Oregon Arts Commission, and many others. Since 2016, her project Suspended Moment has been selected by the New York Foundation for the Arts for fiscal sponsorship.
Richard (Rick) Kubiniec MD
Rick was raised in Buffalo, NY and has been a resident of Vancouver, WA since 2004. He received an M.A. in Microbiology/Immunology at State University of New York at Buffalo and an MD from Washington University in St. Louis in 1996. He completed a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Barnes Hospital at Washington University. He is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He has provided direct patient care in Obstetrics & Gynecology and hospital care at Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center since 2014 and is currently the Clinical Director of the Sea Mar Vancouver Women’s Health Center.
In April 2023 Rick joined the PSR delegation and represented OPSR in Mombasa, Kenya at the 23rd World Congress of IPPNW and has been re-invigorated with a passion for connecting Peace Work with Environmental Justice ever since. He currently serves on the Community Roots Collaborative Board, a tiny home developer in Vancouver, WA which has focused on addressing the housing crisis with well-built, energy-efficient tiny homes.
Jenny Lee
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Jenny is the Deputy Director at the Coalition of Communities of Color. She previously worked as the Advocacy Director at the Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon (APANO), and the Advocacy Director at CCC. She has dedicated her career to racial, social, and economic justice.
Throughout her work, Jenny has engaged in a range of advocacy strategies, including legislative and electoral advocacy, grasstops organizing, policy research, communications, and litigation. Jenny holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA in philosophy, French, and political science from the University of Oregon.
Damon Motz-Storey
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Damon spent five years on the Oregon PSR staff team in a variety of roles, first as a Quaker Voluntary Service fellow in 2016-2017 and then as our Healthy Climate Program Director from 2017-2021. Damon was involved in a wide variety of campaigns and projects such as organizing the 2017 Greenfield Peace Writing Scholarship, serving as a communications coordinator for the Portland Clean Energy Fund ballot measure in 2018, and acting as co-director for the Power Past Fracked Gas coalition.
In the Oregon State Legislature, they helped halt exemptions for nuclear power plants, block legislation that would reward waste incineration with renewable energy credits, and win the nation’s strongest 100% clean electricity standard. A lifelong Quaker, Damon also serves on the Board of Directors of Quaker Voluntary Service and the American Friends Service Committee.
Damon left Oregon PSR’s staff in 2021 to become the Communications and Development Manager with Coalition of Communities of Color. In late 2023, they became the Director of the Sierra Club Oregon Chapter.
Bonnie Reagan MD, RN
Bonnie is a retired family physician from Portland. Her career has been varied; first a high school teacher and then a pediatric nurse practitioner, she eventually became a physician, specializing in women’s care, including obstetrics and pediatrics. She was the Chair of a Hospital Ethics Committee and was also on the OHSU Task Force that helped frame policy for the Death with Dignity Act.
Bonnie was the 2010 Oregon Family Doctor of the Year and a finalist for the national award. In 2013 she co-founded Oregon BRAVO Youth Orchestras, a program bringing rigorous group music instruction to underserved children in Portland as a tool to transform their lives, and the program now serves over 350 children in North Portland.
Frances Storrs MD
Fran retired from a career as an academic dermatologist at OHSU and has been active in national and local dermatology associations. She has a long-standing interest in civil liberties and peace, and was a member of the Board of Directors of the ACLU.
Fran chaired a committee for the City of Portland that resulted in a ballot measure and institution of an oversight committee for the Internal Affairs Division. She has been President and Board member for the City Club of Portland and a Board member for Outside In, Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette, and the Portland Baroque Orchestra.
Catherine Thomasson MD
Dr. Catherine Thomasson is pleased to be the legislative coordinator for MCAT. She is an environmental consultant and advocate for healthy climate policy. Catherine has been chair and vice chair of the Oregon Democrats Environmental Caucus since 2019. She is the former executive director of Physicians for Social Responsibility in Washington, D.C.
An internal medicine physician by training, she has contributed to city, county and state advisory boards and provided direct advocacy on issues of climate change, water treatment management and toxins. She finds inspiration in hiking our mountains and forests.