Theresa Logan

Theresa is a Portland, OR based facilitator, trainer and consultant with 20 years’ experience in community organizing, community development, public policy engagement, organizational equity, conflict resolution, and restorative justice. Her approach to all of her work includes analysis of the race, gender and power dynamics that are present in every interpersonal conflict, every group and organization, and every social structure. She is passionately dedicated to sharing skills and tools for anti-oppressive conflict transformation and trauma healing towards collective liberation.

Her passion for this work is deeply rooted in a lifetime of experience navigating the challenges of life as a single mother living at the poverty line and unpacking her whiteness and white privilege while living, learning, working and loving in Black and Latinx communities. She grew up in NE Portland, attending Harriet Tubman Middle School, Grant High School and Portland State University, before moving to Washington DC to work in international and community development and complete a MS in Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University.

After returning to Portland, she served as Resolutions Northwest’s Facilitation Program Coordinator from 2015 – 2019. During that time she shifted RNW’s facilitator training program from a volunteer program teaching dominant culture meeting practices and serving mostly white folks, to a community and capacity building program serving a majority POC and explicitly pro-Black cohort of facilitators doing racial equity work. She also worked with dozens of organizations around the Portland metro area, providing facilitated processes, trainings and consultation in equity-informed conflict resolution, organizational restorative justice, anti-racism and organizational equity.

As a white woman, she does not do “equity work” alone. When needed, she will definitely go in and wrangle the white folks to spare her colleagues the labor and impacts; and she can only be successful in this work by fully collaborating with and deferring to her Black colleagues and other colleagues of color.