Sally Yee
What I do at MMT:
Having spent most of my life working in the nonprofit sector and my experience in organizational development has really helped me with my work as a program officer. I’ve worked in the areas of child abuse prevention, women’s health, community organizing, and public education. Those experiences included work as an advocate, as a statistician and director of medical records, as a director of communications, as an administrative director, as a dismantling racism and organizational development trainer, and as a program director on an initiative to eliminate the achievement gap. I was a founding member of an Asian-Pacific Islander organization and established a Saturday School program for a northeast Portland neighborhood where I taught reading and math to at risk third graders.
I have a blended family with four children and my partner. The kids are all young adults now. I enjoy food, both cooking it for others and most importantly eating it!
These kinds of questions (the bio questions posed to all the staff) drive me crazy but since I didn't answer the questions posed to me about high school I will share other things. I have lived in Oregon for 27 years, but was born and raised on the east coast where most of my siblings still live. Oregon has become my home I just miss not having family closer by. I am wild about my four grown children and partner. Food is my friend and I love to eat...and cook, but mostly eat. I will say something about high school. When I graduated I felt like I could be anything I wanted to be. I don't believe that most high school grads today can say they feel that way. That doesn't seem right to me.
