Alex co-leads Healthy Democracy’s programs department with a focus on process design, facilitation, and partnership development. After working as a moderator for two HD projects in 2019 and 2020, she joined the team as staff in 2021.

She holds dual Master’s degrees in Conflict & Dispute Resolution and Environmental Studies from the University of Oregon, and a BA from the California Institute of Integral Studies. Prior to Healthy Democracy, she spent seven years working with a wide range of environmental and social justice non-profits as an organizer, trainer, and administrator on grassroots advocacy campaigns. All her work centers around one simple principle: involve more people in the policy decisions that affect their lives.

As a relative newcomer to Oregon, she spends most of her free time exploring new mountains and rivers by foot, bike, and boat.

Grace Taylor joined Healthy Democracy in December 2021.  She manages logistics, budgeting and other policies, procedures, and systems for Healthy Democracy’s team.

She holds a Master’s in Organizational Leadership from Pinchot University, and a BA in Political Economy from Lewis and Clark College. Prior to Healthy Democracy, she worked as an organizational development and strategic planning consultant for numerous Portland-area nonprofits and has worked with Rural Organizing Project and Vibrant Village Foundation, coordinating operations and finances. Earlier in her career she was a grassroots social justice organizer and international solidarity activist.

Grace grew up in Denver, Colorado, but Portland, Oregon is her longtime home. She’s parenting two teenagers, and loves hiking, backpacking and live music and dance.

Kacey joined Healthy Democracy in the summer of 2021 and focuses on helping tell the stories of the Lottery-Selected Panels designed and coordinated by HD. 

She studied deliberation throughout her Communication Studies BA and MA coursework through the deliberation track at Colorado State University where worked with the Center for Public Deliberation. Trained as a facilitator of Public Deliberation, she assisted in the designing and facilitating of 4+ years of deliberative events in Northern Colorado. 

Kacey is a wanderer and adventurer by nature. She relishes in experiencing new cultures, meeting new dogs, and trying new foods. In her free time, you can find her exploring the outdoors with her family and dogs.

Linn co-leads Healthy Democracy’s program development and process design, with an emphasis on lottery-selection procedure, process self-governance, and urban planning integration. He also leads HD’s systems-level democracy innovation work, including the application of lottery assemblies to city charter review and direct democracy systems (i.e., initiatives and referenda).

Since joining HD in 2016, he has co-designed and -managed 15 major lottery-selected deliberative events, from city-level lottery assemblies to statewide Citizens’ Initiative Reviews. He has advised dozens of local government staff and electeds across the United States, as well as academics, foundations, and intergovernmental organizations. 

He holds a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from Portland State University and a BA in History from Grinnell College. In his spare time, he plays music and volunteers as a fire lookout in the Central Oregon Cascades.