About Me

Alyshia Alohalani Macaysa-Feracota is a Kanaka Maoli Filipina health equity strategist and community organizer. She was born in Hilo, Hawai’i; raised in Southeast San Diego, California; politicized in the Bay Area; and is now organizing systems-change work in Portland, Oregon.

The heart of her work is integrating a decolonized public health practice into community-led racial equity initiatives. This journey has led her to work across the community development, public health, and technology sectors. In 2019 she was selected by the City of Portland to serve as an Equity Consulting Advisor for their Smart City PDX Initiative, and began her service as a Board Member for Multnomah County’s Public Health Advisory Board. That same year Alyshia became a nationally recognized Culture of Health Leader through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

She is also a proud founding member of the Oregon Pacific Islander Coalition, the BIPOC Decolonizing Data and Research Council, and Suma - a digital justice non-profit. When Alyshia is not working she enjoys swimming, listening to music hella loud, and talking story with her family.

Body of Work

Curriculum Design and Training Facilitation
Power as a Public Health Issue | Nurses Leadership Institute, Oregon Nurses Association | 2021
Building Civic Power | Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon | 2020
Health in All Policies | Oregon Health Equity Alliance | 2020
Climate Health and Housing Institute | Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon | 2020
2019 Fellows Program Curriculum | Code2040 | 2018

Research and Evaluation
Oregon Pacific Islander Data Modernization | Oregon Public Health Division | Current
Employee Survey (Qualitative Analysis) | Multnomah County Evaluation & Research Unit | 2020
Pacific Islander Data Project | Multnomah County Public Health Division | 2019 - 2020
Racial Equity Assessment | Portland School of Astrology | 2020

Coalition Facilitation / Community Organizing
Community LEADS Lead Project Consultant | City of Portland | Current
Oregon Pacific Islander Coalition | 2020 - 2021
Willamette Cove In-Water Remedial Design Round table | 2020 - 2021
Oregon Pacific Islander COVID-19 Task Force | 2020
Community Powered Change Leadership Team | Oregon Health Equity Alliance | 2020
Washington County Community Action Team | OHEA | 2020
Baby Booster Community Action Plan | ROSE Community Development | 2019

Partnership Management
2022 Fellows Program Corporate Engagement Strategy & Management | Code2040 | 2021
2021 Fellows Program Corporate Engagement Strategy & Management | Code2040 | 2020
Baby Booster Housing Preference Partnership | ROSE Community Development | 2019

General Consulting
Portland Street Medicine | 2020
SmartCity PDX Equity Consulting Advisor | City of Portland | 2020

Talks and Presentations
Decolonizing Gender in Parent and Child Health | CityMatCH Leadership and MCH Epidemiology Conference | 2020
Decolonizing Public Health Research and Data | OPHA Epi-Biostats Forum | 2019
Collectively Building the Table: Lessons Learned from Engaging Multi-Sector Partners and Residents | CityMatCH Leadership and MCH Epidemiology Conference | 2018

*This is not a comprehensive list