Sara Arc Clark

Staff, Mills International Center
Sara was raised on jello salad and Midwestern nice. Living in Nicaragua for a year while speaking Spanish like a 9-year-old taught her to let go of perfectionism. Hired at the Mills International Center in 2009, Sara is pleasantly surprised to find herself still there.

Emily Dale

Graduate Student, Nonprofit Management
Emily is a second year Masters of Nonprofit Management and Arts Management graduate certificate student. Prior to grad school, she worked in the nonprofit theatre industry wearing many hats, including box office manager, production manager, performer, and director. As a strong believer in the power of storytelling and its ability to connect us to ourselves and each other, Emily was drawn to Intertwined immediately. She participated as a storyteller in Intertwined 2020: Hidden, and is happy to be returning this year as a story coach and member of the planning committee.

Tristan Hurst

Law Student
Tristan is a 23-year-old first year law student at the University of Oregon. When he is not reading or prepping my outlines for class, Tristan enjoys cooking, gaming, and hiking. Outside of the semester he enjoy reading as well.

K. Jackson

Undergraduate Student, Journalism
K. is a temporal East Coaster with a haunted imagination; a recent transfer to the U of O who has always dreamed of pine trees; a stranger in love with every town. K. enjoys making oat cookies from scratch, collecting small polished rocks, and sourcing gently-used books.

Trisha Maxfield

Graduate Student, Strategic Communication and Conflict & Dispute Resolution
Trish grew up in the once prosperous rural timber town of Oakridge, Oregon, where she would later go on to serve as the youngest City Councilwoman. She is a first-generation high school graduate and a veteran with a deployment to Afghanistan. In 2017 she obtained her B.S. in Environmental Studies and is currently working on a dual-masters in Strategic Communication and Conflict & Dispute Resolution.

Anna Mills

Undergraduate Student, Holden Center for Leadership and Community Engagement
Anna Mills (she/her) is from Portland, Oregon, and has a huge love for poetry and community building and how art can be a tool for healing and self-empowerment. She is a third-year undergraduate student studying Public Relations and Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies as well as a minor in Creative Writing. Anna plans to use her studies to be an advocate for community sustainability with the help of collaborative discourse and platforms for creative expression.

Sarada Thomas

Undergraduate Student, Architecture and Cultural Anthropology
Sarada (she/her) has been a member of the artistic community in Eugene for the last 20 years. She is pursuing a Bachelor of Architecture and a Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology with a minor in Planning, Public Policy and Management at the University of Oregon. She plans to design bio-symbiotic infrastructure to promote community resilience, food and water security and justice.