candidates are listed in alphabetical order under each officer role.

Watch the Candidate Forums for the contested elections:

• Secretary and Elections and Nominations
• President and Organizing Officer

President (3 Candidates)

Ali Beaudoin-President

As a business professor since 2022, I have developed an appreciation for this institution and the vibrant, diverse community we serve. That experience has reinforced my belief that leadership is, at its core, about service, listening, building trust, and working collaboratively to create solutions grounded in our shared values.

Throughout my career, I have taken this approach by partnering in nonprofits to global companies, to turn ideas into meaningful, community-centered impact. With 20 years of experience in the private and nonprofit sectors, I bring a perspective rooted in a strong commitment to education. I see tremendous opportunity ahead: to strengthen our connections as union members, deepen collaboration with PCC administration, and expand what’s possible for the Portland Metro region we collectively serve.

If elected President, I will lead with intention and humility, guided by the principles of servant leadership and the voices of our members. I am committed to building a stronger future through collaboration, bringing members together and advancing solutions that uplift us all, where progress and equity go hand in hand 2026 was a pivotal moment for our union. Together, we can build on the strong foundation already in place by strengthening membership, expanding our impact, and amplifying our collective voice. My vision includes serving two terms to provide stability and help cultivate the next generation of leadership.

My MBA from the University of Portland was focused-on finance and strategy. Beyond the classroom, I am an entrepreneur and business leader, I own a tax advisory firm and co-own Oakshire Brewing. These experiences continue to shape how I approach innovation, resilience, and long-term community impact through investing locally and supporting our broader community.

Under my leadership, I will bring a strategic and financial lens, focusing on creative, collaborative solutions that promote equity and help our entire community thrive. I would be honored to serve as your President and be the leader where every voice is heard, valued, and empowered.

Miranda Ramsey-President

Going into this election, I have been thinking about the next two years. The federal government is escalating violence against us. Unions across the nation from all industries are organizing for a powerful labor movement in 2028. And after fighting long and hard for the fair contract we deserve, we will soon be back at the bargaining table again for a fair 2027 contract.

In the face of these conflicts, FFAP finds ourselves at our strongest and most unified! A 94% vote to strike, followed by a 98% vote to ratify our agreement, is an incredible victory. 

We cannot take this unity for granted. We must work hard to sustain our energy and direct it toward material changes to our workplace: achieving pay equity, replacing our board members, auditing payroll, and funding programs that support our students and enrich our communities.

Many of you know me for bringing karaoke to the picket lines. Math faculty may recognize me for my work converting materials to more accessible formats, or my enthusiasm for teaching developmental math classes. Outside of PCC, I have served as the Treasurer of the Foster Powell Neighborhood Association, and as a board member of the Trans Wardrobe Project. Through my connection with SE Uplift, I led a group of volunteers painting the Arleta Triangle on Woodstock Blvd. I love teaching, I love Portland, and I love working hard for my community.

We need a resilient executive council that engages and motivates our membership. With our future in mind, I feel called to offer my service to the community project. As president I will keep the energy high, be a powerful voice when I’m needed, and most importantly, provide a platform for all of our members to be heard.

Laura Wadlin-President

Hey colleagues! I’m Laura Wadlin, and I’m running for President to take our union power to new heights.

I teach ESOL, and I’ve been dedicated to transforming FFAP for the past six years. I’m proud of my central role in getting us to commit to open bargaining, creating a vibrant Contract Action Team, fighting abusive management, and winning a historic strike. I’ve trained countless people on how to stand up for ourselves, kept us from settling for crumbs, and insisted that rank-and-file members be in the driver’s seat of our strategy and planning.

I’d be honored to have you empower me to lead FFAP with a socialist vision for our workplace:

1. Expand and Democratize PCC
   • We’ve been put on the defensive against austerity and authoritarianism. It’s time to go on the offensive and imagine expanded services and true workplace democracy. For 2027 bargaining, let’s collaborate with other unions to prepare to strike across institutions and demand that Oregon tax the rich and make it easier for all people to enjoy public services.
2. One Big Union
   • To make sure the threat of a joint strike is always on the table, let’s collaborate with classified workers from the start of bargaining, help organize a new union of casual workers, double down on student solidarity, and embrace “wall-to-wall” unionism.
3. Department Power
   • We must start remaking PCC now; we don’t have to wait for contract negotiations. Within our (official or unofficial) departments, let’s work with coworkers to decide the concrete changes we need and then act on them.
4. Political Revolution
   • For too long unions have relied on fair-weather “allies” in public office. We don’t just need a worker-friendly Board of Directors – we need an insurgent opposition to Oregon’s entire corporate political establishment.

Read more about my platform and my experience on my website!

Vice President of Communications (1 candidate)

Victoria Rau

I stepped into the role of Vice President of Communications last year during a pivotal moment for our union, helping to bridge a transition while also serving directly on the bargaining team. 

As a long-time part-time instructor in English and Writing, I understand the power of clear, thoughtful communication. This experience has reinforced my belief that communications is not simply about information-sharing – it is a core part of organizing work. It builds trust, mobilizes members, counters misinformation, and helps sustain solidarity during difficult campaigns. As I grew into this position, much of the writing you saw in later bargaining updates and messages likely came through my hands, but always as part of a collective process. Communication is a team sport, and part of my role has been coordinating and supporting an excellent, hard-working communications team.

I believe in a measured approach to leadership, but I also understand when escalation is necessary. That means recognizing we’re a large and diverse membership and communicating in ways that speak across that diversity. It also means, at times, sending hardline messaging when it’s needed to apply pressure and shift the system. My priority has been centering member voices while keeping our messaging focused, strategic, and transparent.

Members deserve accurate information, responsive communication, and leadership that balances urgency with thoughtful action, especially in a challenging climate with current college leadership and the significant actions our union may now undertake. In this, I am committed to keeping our union’s voice clear, credible, and grounded in member needs while advancing our collective power. 

I’m proud to have served in this role when our union needed continuity, and I would be honored to continue working to strengthen our communication systems, expand meaningful member engagement, and support our union’s broader organizing efforts as Vice President of Communications.

Solidarity Officer (1 candidate)

Ben Cushing

Our historic strike taught us that we are an integral part of a movement of working people. Our victory was partly made possible by the struggles of other workers, like the Portland Association of Teachers and the Oregon Nurses Association, and our win rippled forward to support other unions, like the classified employees at Central Oregon Community College. Our success also grew out of the overwhelming support of our student allies.  In other words, our ability to build collective power for a better future is only as strong as our relationships with broader communities and organizations. The Solidarity Officer has the responsibility and privilege to foster those relationships, and to help weave together the coalitions we’ll need.

Solidarity is what love looks like in public. It is about the reality of our interconnectedness. Solidarity is the antidote to the alienation, loneliness and disregard for one another that defines too much of our culture and politics. If capitalism draws us into relations of individualist competition, the labor movement (at least at its best) draws us into relationships of solidarity and mutual aid.  

Please vote for me as Solidarity Officer. I commit to:

• Strengthen relationships with other local unions and local labor networks, like Portland Jobs with Justice and Oregon Rising
• Advocate that FFAP join Higher Ed Labor United, the most important national coalition of higher ed unions
• Strengthen relationships with social movement organizations, such as Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition and the Sunrise Movement
• Foster community building spaces among our coworkers here at PCC

Solidarity isn’t just the tool we need to take on the Billionaire Class and fund public education for all. It is also the stuff out of which we will build the more humane societies we so desperately need.

Secretary (2 candidates)

Sarah Coffer-Secretary

I am passionate about labor organizing, especially as an educator at a community college. Labor unions are some of the most fortified grassroots organizations and mutual-aid networks when crisis hits, as we saw in the strike. Of course, horizontally-organized democratic movements require a willingness to communicate, include, learn, and evolve. I’m very impressed with FFAP leadership and rank-and-file members and honored to serve alongside them. 

I’ve served on FFAP’s Contract Action Team and the Communications Committee since I started teaching at PCC in January of 2023. I completed the Member Organizing Institute with AFT in spring of 2025 and was a delegate to the AFT-Oregon State Convention. As the strike campaign was building, I reached out to members about our Strike Pledge and the Strike Vote. Then I served on the Strike Committee and the Southeast Strike Crew. I helped organize integral actions like the Waterfront Rally that called for Governor Kotek to advocate for us in negotiations. While FFAP collaborated tirelessly to secure a good contract through pretty harrowing bad faith bargaining, it’s clear to me that our work is just beginning. I believe that FFAP is poised to champion not just the working and learning conditions at PCC but make a huge impact for public education throughout the state of Oregon. 

I believe that union communications should be clear, timely, and accessible. Unions should actively invite and incorporate member feedback in decisions and campaigns. As secretary, I will use my technological proficiency and empathic listening skills to make meeting minutes and agendas an easy and accurate doorway to our activity, as well as help strengthen communication and record keeping throughout our organization. My experience as a committee secretary comes from Narcotics Anonymous, so I believe these positions are ones of service, not of government. I appreciate your consideration. 

Lisa Lam-Secretary

The strike inspired many of us to find ways to engage in the important work of holding administration accountable. I am running for secretary to continue our shared work.

For the past couple of contract cycles, I’ve served as a CAT (Contract Action Team) member. In my role, my goal is to support members one-on-one, listen to concerns, and bring them forward to union leadership. During our historic strike, I had the opportunity to connect with more colleagues across the college through our joy, love, and solidarity for education, labor, and our students. I’d like to build on my past work as a CAT to continue supporting my colleagues at PCC. Together we are the union and I’d be honored to serve as secretary.

For more information about me and my endorsements, check out Lisa Lam for FFAP Secretary. 

Organizing Officer (3 candidates)

Alee Kelley – Organizing Officer

My name is Alee Kelley. I am part-time faculty at PCC teaching Geographic Information Systems and I am running for Organizing Officer. A little more about me: my educational background is in Urban Sustainability and Environmental Science. I have had a passion for organizing for a long time. I ride my bike often and see being a cyclist as an act of resistance.

Full waitlists and the threat of course cuts are what motivated me to get more involved in our union. Students are the reason we love what we do and the needs of students and workers are aligned at PCC.

I am a member of the Contract Action team. During the Winter 2026 term I completed AFT’s Member Organizing Institute where I called many members asking them to become dues-paying members of our union, sign our strike pledge, join the Contract Action Team, and vote yes on a strike authorization. I learned by calling members that the energy and ideas of our membership are what make our union strong. As Organizing Officer I want to empower members to take on union projects that they are passionate about. PCCFFAP is coming out of our historic strike STRONG. Members are engaged, other unions are inspired, and management can feel how organized and connected we are. I want to facilitate keeping this momentum going. 

I am asking for your vote and look forward to coming together to make PCC better for us all!!

Amanda Wetrick – Organizing Officer

You may have seen a text from me during our strike. It most likely offered information or invited you to an event, and it probably told you I’m not a bot. I coordinated texts and led phone banking when I wasn’t on the picket line.

Information as a form of empowerment is important and, to me, central to organizing. Information helps us decide how to advocate for ourselves. The union is not just the leadership. Our union is you and your colleagues organizing to fight for better working conditions. Our union is all of us – our voices and our goals!

If elected, my goals are to work more closely with our Classified union, hear department-level concerns to develop concrete actions, and to take steps toward a board and college president who will prioritize students and workers. As a part-time instructor, I aim to create more evening and weekend opportunities for union events. All faculty and APs should have a variety of opportunities to be involved with our union.

Since the end of our strike, I have supported our work toward electing board members that will prioritize students. Since Fall of 2025, I have been part of the communications committee and the organizing committee. I have also been participating in the Member Organizing Institute (MOI) since September. One of the Organizing Officer’s primary responsibilities is supporting our union’s student interns. As part of the MOI, I have been able to support our student interns this year, with the guidance of our current Organizing Officer.

I am proud to stand in solidarity with all of you, and our students, to create a PCC that centers community over the bottom line. It would be an honor to have your vote and a privilege to support you in our next steps!

In Solidarity,
Amanda

Ralf Youtz – Organizing Officer

Howdy! 

I teach people about statistics and math at the Sylvania Math Dept. I’ve been a PCC instructor and a proud FFAP member since 2012, starting out part-time, and becoming full-time in 2014.

Over the years, I’ve taken increasingly active roles in FFAP organizing, including: 

• Contract Action Team
• Full-Time Steward
• Organizing Committee participation
• Strike supplies & Cascade picket crews

I’ve been heartened by the work of my fellow FFAP – and FCE – organizers who consistently share the work and support each other. I’ve learned to trust my fellow organizers, and to do my best to show up however I can to support us all.

Current issues that demand FFAP organizing include – and are not limited to – our:

• Never-ending member drive to include every new coworker (and every current bargaining unit member who isn’t paying dues) as a full dues-paying FFAP member
• Ongoing struggle for our contract to honor the work of PT Faculty members both inside and outside the classroom
• Commitment to honoring the labor of our members with advanced degrees with equitable pay
• Fiery determination to end prioritizing austerity – so-called “fiscal sustainability” – over our students and our fellow workers
• Relationship with our sibling union FCE
• Quest for genuine, democratic shared governance which includes students and workers in making College decisions that affect us all

The Organizing Officer supports all FFAP members as we develop the flexible, trusting, thoughtful, caring, detail-oriented, systems-aware, engaging, joyful, organizing skills that we use to build the solidarity and power we need to meet today’s challenges, and to face upcoming challenges as well. 

Whether or not I’m elected to this role – both my fellow candidates are amazing, strong organizers – you can count on me showing up wherever and whenever I can to support FFAP organizing!

Love & solidarity, Ralf Youtz

Nominations and Elections Officer (2 candidates)

Dan Davis – Nominations and Elections Officer

Hi everyone,

My name is Dan Davis and I am running for Nominations and Election Officer. I have previously served on the EC as Lead Steward for full timers. During my time in this position, I’ve gotten to know many of you. I have assisted in many organizing efforts in different departments, including my own. These have led to outcomes including improved or different managers, resolved grievances, and the strongest contract in PCCFFAP history. During the strike, I lobbied hard to hold out for full strike pay so that every striking member of our union could be made whole. As Election Officer, I intend to work hard to ensure more contested elections and greater participation from the rank and file of our union. I hope I have earned your vote!

Alycia Kearns – Nominations and Elections Officer

Hi there!
My name is Alycia Kearns, and I am honored to be in the running to be your Nominations and Elections Officer for FFAP!

Leading up to and during our historic strike, I was inspired by the volunteers who stepped in to support members and colleagues navigate such a stressful and uncertain time. These volunteers weren’t superheroes though; they were just people who were willing to spend time and energy to collaborate, organize, connect, and be active participants in keeping us going. I am energized and excited to step up and be part of another wave of union leaders who can continue the good work of our predecessors!

As your Nominations and Elections Officer my main goals will be to ensure our federation’s elections continue to be organized and transparent and to engage other members to serve in ways that highlight their skills and allow room for growth. It would be a learning experience for sure, and I believe I can serve our federation well.

I have worked at PCC since 2014, first as an Office Assistant and was a member of our Classified Federation, serving on the Executive Council as a Campus Rep and supporting the Members Helping Members committee. In 2018 I started in my current role as an Academic Advisor, and I have spent some time supporting the Contract Action Team in the past two contract cycles.

For more information, please visit: Alycia Kearns for FFAP NEO 2026

Thank you so much for your consideration!

Vice President for Grievance and Contract Administration-Academic Professionals (1 candidate)

Jess Amo (She/her)

Many thanks to Michael Annus for the five intense, busy years he spent as VP for Grievance and Contract Administration for APs. And thanks to the mystery person who nominated me for this election!

I’m an Academic Professional, and I’ve been at PCC for ten years. Because I plan to be here long term I am invested in PCC’s capacity to be a better workplace. After years of reorganizations, cuts, and chaotic changes, participating in the recent strike reminded me what a strong and connected educational community we have.

I’m interested in continuing to cultivate the strength and well-being of our workplace community by supporting staff through grievance processes. While I am new to union work, I have years of experience supporting people as they face challenging issues and complex system navigation. I spent 25 years advocating for people affected by relationship and sexual violence in settings ranging from non-profit crisis lines and shelters to restraining order rooms to a university and then here at PCC’s SE Women’s Resource Center. I currently work on a grant that supports students who are on food stamps and who are getting the career technical education they need to qualify for living wage jobs.

I am currently part of the Spring 2026 cohort of AFT’s Member Organizing Institute, where I have been learning more about our union as well as labor organizing overall. I look forward to uplifting solidarity by ensuring staff have access to clear information about our contract and know about the rights we have worked so hard to achieve.

Lead Steward-PT Faculty (1 candidate)

Barb Roberts

Hello Folks,

My name is Barb Roberts and I am running for Lead Steward for Part-time Faculty. I was appointed to this position in July 2025.

Since being appointed, I have been working on building a bridge between our union and the Classified union (FCE) since early Fall of 2025; I will continue to do so because I believe that we are stronger together.

I was one of two strike captains at the Sylvania campus during our historic strike in March 2026. I would go out on the line and talk with people I had not seen in several years while meeting new people including students, classified staff, AP’s, community members and politicians.

I have been at PCC since 2002. First as a math tutor and then as a Part-time Math instructor in Fall 2004. In 2020 I became a PT Physical Education instructor as well. I have been a member of the union since Fall 2002. I also was a CAT.

Some of my efforts leading up to this election include:

• Organizing three meetings (with a colleague) for Math SAC to update them on the strike and answer their questions and concerns.

• Co-hosted an Unemployment information session with Josh Hall from Oregon Labor.

• Encouraged relationships with our sibling union, FCE, and AFT.

• Talking with members of both unions and listening to their concerns.

I am honored to work alongside so many dedicated and hard-working people. I was amazed by the amount of hard work I witnessed while on strike. Many hands make lighter work. I experienced people as energetic, committed, and creative.

Some of the workshops I have attended include:

• AFL-CIO/LERC Summer School

• AFL-CIO State convention

• Oregon Labor Strike School with LERC (Labor Education & Research Center)

• AFT Oregon Spring Training–Grievance Track

Thank you for your support.
Barb Roberts

Lead Steward-FT Faculty (1 candidate)

Yvette Rosales

I am excited and humbled to continue serving my full time faculty colleagues and all FFAP workers as the lead steward for full time faculty for 2026-2028. 

Since being appointed lead steward in January of 2025, I have worked on several organizing campaigns, including the Stop the Cuts to Music and Sonic Arts and the Gerontology programs. Alongside my fellow lead stewards, I have organized monthly office visits in order to connect more with our members and hear workplace concerns. I have been a part of creating a steward network for FFAP, including organizing several Steward 101 information sessions, reaching out to people individually, and creating a system for regular steward nominations, which will begin in Spring 2027. 

During the strike, I served on the picket crew at both Rock Creek and Cascade campuses. I helped organize events during the strike, such as the People’s Board Meeting, several Unemployment information sessions, and several student town halls. I am proud to have worked on the team responsible for making more of our FFAP meetings accessible to our deaf and hard of hearing colleagues, and will continue to implement accessibility going forward. 

I look forward to continuing this work, encouraging all workers to step into their agency, and to fight for a better FFAP and PCC.