Abigail Leeder serves as the manager of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Experiential Learning. She is the director of Rehearsals for Life graduate student theatre troupe and loves working with storytelling and interactive theatre as tools for personal growth and social change. Co-creating Intertwined with a group of talented and passionate people is always a highlight of her year.

Tyler is a second-year undergraduate student in majoring in Neuroscience with minors in Sociology and Public Policy, Planning & Management. She adores sugar, sour candy, night time and trying new things! She also works at the Womens Center, a cognitive neuroscience research lab- Developing Brains in Context, and for the Insurgent- a publishing collective- located in the Radical Organizing and Activism Resource Center (ROAR). This is Tyler’s first year on the Intertwined team and is extremely delighted to be working in this new creative space with Rory and Abigail to put on this perspective changing event.

Elizabeth White (she/they) is a graduate student in the UO’s College of Education studying elementary education, and is currently completing her student teaching in a 5^th grade classroom. She will graduate with her MEd this spring. Elizabeth, who often goes by Ellie, is passionate about working with students, finding small moments of joy, and the power of juicy words. She loves learning about astrophysics for the sake of understanding love more deeply, and can’t wait to see what life after grad school has in store. When not in the classroom or looking at the sky, she can be found laughing with friends, writing, or trying to make sense of all the ands that exist in the world.

Sarah, a UO staff & student employee coordinator, is from a small town in the Olympic Peninsula and moved to Eugene in 2012. She attended UO as an undergrad and started working here professionally in 2017. She has recently taken on a new role as the Student Employee Coordinator in Human Resources. She has been involved with Intertwined since 2019, and has served as a storyteller, story coach, and part of the planning committee. Outside of work she enjoys drinking loose leaf tea, collecting house plants, backpacking, whitewater rafting, and reading novels.

Charlotte came to Oregon by way of Madison, Wisconsin and currently serves as an Assistant Vice President in the Division of Equity and Inclusion at the UO. She also serves as Director of the Center on Diversity and Community (CoDaC). Charlotte’s most recent passion is coaching; she is a certified professional coach and serves as an internal coach at the UO where she helps people activate their unique resourcefulness in support of their life’s work and their lives more broadly. She has very much enjoyed the challenge of being a story coach for Intertwined. When she’s not working you can find her adventuring outdoors with her partner and their two feisty, late teen-aged young men.

Dr. Kellum Tate-Jones (she/her) is an alumna of the University of Oregon and the 2023 Intertwined storytelling event. As both an Earth scientist and a community storytelling facilitator, she is deeply invested both in how stories shape our world and how our world shapes our stories. Kellum is the executive director of the local firm Refugium Consulting and Facilitation Services, an organization dedicated to harnessing the power of storytelling to cultivate belonging, inclusion, and justice in academic and scientific organizations. She is thrilled to be back on the Intertwined team as a story coach this year.