The Our Home, Inclusive Community Collaborative mission: To promote, support and develop inclusive, diverse communities. Our first community, Cathedral Park Cohousing is under development in Portland, OR. Our work is to promote, support and develop additional communities in the Portland area and throughout the United States.
Alicia DeLashmutt email
Board President and Chair
Founder of Our Home, Inclusive Community Collaborative, Alicia has over 20 years of community involvement as a disability inclusion and housing advocate and is the proud mother of a strong-willed young woman whose diverse interests include basketball, Fritos and opera. Her daughter experiences Mowat-Wilson, a rare genetic syndrome, the impacts from which are widespread and significant. Her daughter, Neva, has been a strong influence in Alicia’s mission to promote inclusive life opportunities for families and individuals who also experience disability.
A 2017 graduate from the Institute on Development and Disability Leadership in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) program through Oregon Health Sciences University and 2007 graduate of Oregon Partners in Policy Making, she is a member of the Oregon Developmental Disabilities Coalition and acts as an advisor to the Portland Public Schools Special Education Advisory Council and to the Oregon Pediatric Improvement Program.
Alicia has served as the Program Coordinator for the Northwest Down Syndrome Association Kindergarten Inclusion Cohort and has made numerous national presentations as a strong advocate for inclusive communities, education and life.
Previously, with her professional background in landscape and commercial interior design, Alicia was the Director of Interior Design for Sienna Architecture, and founder of Grasshopper Garden Design, an independent landscape design firm. Alicia is an active advocate and parent mentor who believes that the inclusion of ALL, regardless of race, color, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability or gender identity is necessary for a vibrant and healthy community.
Deb Scott email
OHICC Board Secretary, Office Manager, Northwest Housing Alternatives, Masters of Real Estate Development from Portland State University
Deb has a strong interest in communities that include all and the cohousing model. This brought her to the Our Home, Inclusive Community Collaborative in 2014. Since then, she has served as a volunteer and collaborator and now as a committed Board member.
Jenny Stonemeier email
Experienced relationship manager, coalition builder and cultivator of highly effective teams, Jenny has spent her career working in and leading non-profit organizations. She navigates the balance between both operational and strategic priorities while maintaining focus on the organizations vision and mission. In Jenny’s current role as Executive Director at APSE she has lead significant infrastructure investments, including corporate rebranding, website redesign, workflow integration and application development. Jenny brings her skills as a writer, speaker, facilitator, trainer, and leader to her work. She is also the mom of two school-aged kids; her teenage son is on the autism spectrum.
Adesina Cameron
Before coming to the mortgage industry, Adesina spent most of her career working in the natural food industry, sustainability and social justice. After buying her own home she was so impressed with the impact her mortgage broker made on her life that she decided to change careers. She comes to the mortgage industry with 20 years of customer service experience and a focus on creating a smooth, informative and hopefully life changing experience for her clients.
Adesina delights in helping people become homeowners and create generational wealth to improve the lives their children and future generations. Adesina is a teacher at heart: she is dedicated to helping her clients find the mortgage that best meets their family goals. She hopes to help them on the road to financial security so they can spend their time really enjoying the things that matter to them. She specializes in teaching classes that inform people about how to qualify for home mortgages and how their decisions affect future chances for home ownership. Adesina is also a Reverse Mortgage Planner and works with seniors to educate them about how reverse mortgage can be a tool to enhance their retirement.
Adesina also works with people to finance investment properties, vacation homes and remodels of their current home. After all, that’s the next step in using equity to build wealth and the lifestyle people want to enjoy.
Adesina was born in San Francisco. She has lived back and forth between Oregon and the Bay Area for the last 10 years and is now extremely happy raising her family in Portland. She lives in SW Portland with her husband and young daughter.
Dawson Marchant email
Board Treasurer
Dawson has bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder where he studied Film and Business Administration. After graduation, his work took many different directions including bar and restaurant management and summers commercial fishing in Alaska. After working with a friend to reposition an old dilapidated building in New Orleans using historic tax credits Dawson moved his full time focus to commercial real estate and finance. Completing a Master of Real Estate Development program in 2017 from Portland State he has since been working with financial institutions with focus on financial modeling, risk mitigation, due diligence and underwriting for commercial real estate projects.
Alec J. Shebiel email
Government Relations, Umatilla Electric Cooperative
Alec has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his law degree from Boston University. He has over 25 years of experience working in private practice, as in-house counsel and in government relations. Along the way, he’s worked with various non-profit organizations in both a legal capacity or as a board member. Alec brings a business background and key political relationships to Our Home.
Consultants
Anne Andler
Acting Executive Director
In addition to having served as the executive director, acting executive director, director of marketing communications, and director of marketing and development for a variety of Bay Area and Pacific NW nonprofits, Anne Andler has been coaching mission-driven businesses and mentoring nonprofit boards for over 23 years through her Andler Resource Group consulting business. She is also the founder and former executive director of Villages NW, a Portland metro-area nonprofit which was named “the best new nonprofit of 2015” by Portland Monthly magazine, and OHICC is delighted to add her expertise to our leadership team in the role of Acting Executive Director.