Board Member
Anita Keahilani Yap is a fourth generation Chinese/Native Hawaiian born and raised in Oregon. She comes from a family with deep relationships to the land, water, and people.
She continues this legacy working with frontline communities throughout Oregon in organizing, advocacy, placemaking, public policy, and land use planning. Previously, she worked as forester and wildland firefighter in the Pacific Northwest and in various leadership roles in government and nonprofit affordable housing, land use planning, transit/transportation planning, infrastructure finance, natural resources/environmental policy and public health equity.
She is an active community volunteer, organic gardener, birder, backpacker and lives in Portland Oregon with her family.