our team
Kali Auckly, MS
Kali Auckly
Co-Founder & Executive Director
kali@stckdesign.com
Kali has observed global health issues around the world and recognizes the need for efficient and comprehensive solutions--starting with awareness. With a M.S. in global health/social marketing and B.S in public health/behavior change, Kali brings the science lens to marketing and design for STCK’s purpose driven clients.
What inspires Kali most, is carrying the public health torch of her late father who dedicated his life to bringing clean water to millions. When she is not scrolling through spreadsheets, you can find her studying herbs, enjoying nature, or relaxing with family and friends.
Skillset: leadership, public health communications, women's health, biostatistics, project management/ development/evaluation, strategic planning, resource management, cross-cultural communications, behavior change/social marketing, graphic/web design, and photography
Professional Membership: Pacific Northwest Social Marketing Association 2021; XXcelerate for Women Entrepreneurs 2021; Global PDX, Oregon’s Hub for Global Changemakers 2019-present; Participant/Member of Global Health & Innovation Conference – Yale University 2018-2019
Estefania Rivera
Estefania Rivera
Creative Director
estefania@stckdesign.com
Originally from Mexico City, Estefania is now a Portland-based designer. Much of her inspiration is informed by the buildings, the people, the smells, and pretty much all the surroundings in which she grew up. As an experienced furniture and graphic designer, she’s been able to tap into the rich culture of her heritage, delivering impactful identity and compelling websites that are both modern and distinctive. She works with all kinds of business models to build and strengthen brand presence and communication so businesses can reach their full and awesome potential. While she enjoys every project, Estefania particularly loves working with those that are different and challenging. Her main goal is to apply thoughtful design to your project, brand, and limitless ideas that bring meaning to life. If you're interested in taking your brand to a new level, Estefania would love to work with you.
Jen Miller
Jen Miller
Project Operations
jen@stckdesign.com
Jennifer is a consultant who chooses her projects based on their synergy with her own personal calling: Building community and enacting global justice. Jennifer’s skills lie in creative and industrious project management, quick and adaptive understanding of high-level needs, and connecting passionate people with aligned individuals, groups, organizations, and missions. Jennifer believes deeply that mission-driven organizations & globally-engaged businesses are the key to enacting global change, a certainty that drives her desire to bring more eyes to the good guys as STCK Design’s Director of Growth.
Kali Auckly, MS
Cofounder & Executive Director
kali@stckdesign.com
Kali is a visionary and highly committed professional. As Executive Director of STCK, she brings an extensive background in providing high-level leadership and services within the nonprofit and small business sector.
Her training in integrative medicine and program development led to work for international research organization, Bioversity International, where she designed and implemented community-based development projects in Kenya and India. Her work was largely focused on harnessing first person perspective of rural farmers via Photovoice and facilitating critical discussions surrounding women’s health and awareness for neglected and underutilized fruit species.
Kali has observed global health issues around the world and recognizes the need for efficient and comprehensive solutions--starting with awareness. With a M.S. in global health/social marketing and B.S in public health/behavior change, Kali brings the science lens to marketing and design for STCK’s purpose driven clients.
What inspires Kali most, is carrying the public health torch of her late father who dedicated his life to bringing clean water to millions. When she is not scrolling through spreadsheets, you can find her studying herbs, enjoying nature, or relaxing with family and friends.
Skillset: leadership, public health communications, women's health, biostatistics, project management/ development/evaluation, strategic planning, resource management, cross-cultural communications, behavior change/social marketing, graphic/web design, and photography
Professional Membership: Pacific Northwest Social Marketing Association 2021; XXcelerate for Women Entrepreneurs 2021; Global PDX, Oregon’s Hub for Global Changemakers 2019-present; Participant/Member of Global Health & Innovation Conference – Yale University 2018-2019
Taylor Barnes
Cofounder & Creative Director
An east coast native, Taylor spent the majority of her career traveling the globe and working within many industries. With a B.S. in Business Administration, Marketing and a minor in Fine Arts, she worked in the portrait photography industry in the Northeast before moving to Portland.
As STCK’s Creative Director, Taylor brings creative vision and interpersonal skills to the curation of messages across all platforms. She utilizes interactive design, multimedia, & visual content to incite community conversation that accurately represents diverse and individual voices.
Set designs from the early ‘80s and late ‘90s, as well as any integration of animation with live-action, inspire Taylor in the application of mixed media to digital design (The Fifth Element, Cool World, Escape from New York, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters… have all set the aesthetic precedent here). Having transitioned between places, industries, and passions she creates content to reflect the dynamic social and environmental contrast across that spectrum.
Skillset: Integrative design, graphic design, cross-cultural communications, business strategy, media relations, print and digital advertising, photography
Estefania Rivera
Lead Graphic and Web Designer
estefania@stckdesign.com
Originally from Mexico City, Estefania is now a Portland-based designer. Much of her inspiration is informed by the buildings, the people, the smells, and pretty much all the surroundings in which she grew up. As an experienced furniture and graphic designer, she’s been able to tap into the rich culture of her heritage, delivering impactful identity and compelling websites that are both modern and distinctive. She works with all kinds of business models to build and strengthen brand presence and communication so businesses can reach their full and awesome potential. While she enjoys every project, Estefania particularly loves working with those that are different and challenging. Her main goal is to apply thoughtful design to your project, brand, and limitless ideas that bring meaning to life. If you're interested in taking your brand to a new level, Estefania would love to work with you.
Claire Choate, MS
Director of Development, East Coast
claire@stckdesign.com
As Director of East Coast Development for STCK, Claire strives to develop a network of visionaries committed to supporting the holistic health & wellness of our global community.
Claire received her B.A. in Psychology from Florida State University, with a concentration in life cycle development, and M.S. in Global Health from the National University of Natural Medicine. Claire has worked throughout the United States to implement effective public health programming; her extensive training in systematic monitoring & evaluation and trauma-responsive care enable Claire to approach all projects with a nuanced understanding of human behavior and social change.
Out of office, Claire can be found eating her way through NYC, or exploring its many parks with her two dogs, Indiana and Lucy.
Sara Roberti
Cofounder & Executive Producer
sara@stckdesign.com
Sara was brought up in a creatively vibrant home. She fell in love with the medium of film at a young age after being introduced by her father, who was a high school art and photography teacher. After graduating college with a BFA in Photography, she moved to New York City where she was immersed in the commercial photography industry for nearly a decade, working specifically in fashion editorial and advertising. In 2018 she relocated to Portland, embarking on a journey that spoke to her higher purpose and aligned more closely with her values as a person and professional.
As Executive Producer at STCK Design, she carries out projects from start to finish with meticulous attention to detail and transparent communication. Her previous roles such as Post Production Producer, E-commerce Photographer and Photographer & Stylist Agent all lend themselves to STCK’s goal of problem solving creatively and delivering each project to the highest of standards for their clients.
As a trained Western Herbalist, in Sara’s free time she’s usually out foraging and exploring the endless wonder of Oregon’s nature with her fiancé and their pup, Kingston.
Skillset: project management, print + digital advertising production, post production, client liaison, efficient in fast paced environments
Colette Grampre
Cofounder
Due to her technical ability and creative approach, Colette has developed a reputation for being one of the most compassionate, versatile, and informative stylists in the Portland community. Colette specializes in the art of building visual, emotional, and cooperative relationships with her clients. She empowers people to find their personal brand and share it with the world. Colette is always looking for a new and challenging project and feels fortunate to be in a career that she loves.
Jen Miller
Director of Growth
jen@stckdesign.com
Jennifer is a consultant who chooses her projects based on their synergy with her own personal calling: Building community and enacting global justice. Jennifer’s skills lie in creative and industrious project management, quick and adaptive understanding of high-level needs, and connecting passionate people with aligned individuals, groups, organizations, and missions. Jennifer believes deeply that mission-driven organizations & globally-engaged businesses are the key to enacting global change, a certainty that drives her desire to bring more eyes to the good guys as STCK Design’s Director of Growth.
Aldo is a Graphic Designer based in Portland, Oregon with over 12 years of experience in the public and private sectors, including municipality, retail, fine arts, and ad agency design. His studies in Graphic Design were completed at California State University, Long Beach and at the State Academy of Art and Design in Stuttgart, which is one of the top design schools in Germany.
Aldo is highly proficient in the Adobe Creative Suite, and speaks English, Spanish, and German and enjoys how these languages inspire my work and allow me to meet and relate to new people.
Aldo Gonzales
Graphic Designer
ASCXNSION (pronounced "ascension") is an Indigenous hip hop artist and creative producer born and raised in Portland, Oregon. For ASCXNSION, music is a method of self-expression, healing, and social awareness. "Glowing in her multifaceted femininity and ancestral power, she relays stories every young person can relate to with bars and soul" (CBC Reclaimed). ASCXNSION is also a youth-focused curriculum builder and facilitator, having worked with various youth-centered organizations such as Girls Rock Philly, Rock to the Future, and Momentum Alliance. Photography, graphic design, and writing are also passions of hers and overall community engagement and social justice lenses are imperative to her work.
ASCXNSION
Musician/Digital Design
Bella is a Southern California grown writer who resides in Portland, Oregon. She is the 2019 Portland Poetry Grand Slam Champion, and has performed at various events such as the WeMake Disrupt Conference, Invisible Spectrums and Intersect Fest. Her poem Joy will be featured in Black Arts Tables Anthology set to release in spring 2020. Bella’s poetry centers around her experiences being a woman of color, her eating disorder, abusive relationships, and the hope between it all. Side Effects of Remembering the Little Things is her debut book with Lightship Press. Through her work she hopes to create connection, conversation, and understanding so we all feel a little less alone.
Bella Soul
Spoken Word Artist
Savina is a Mexican and Italian American activist, strategist, visual designer and organizer for community-led projects influencing social justice in the cannabis industry. Born in Los Angeles, raised in Seattle, and currently in Portland, she is a West Coast baby through and through. Her involvement in large-scale projects influencing change has led to monumental shifts, like the recent defunding of cannabis tax dollars from the Portland Police Bureau.
With several years experience in Cannabis and Hemp, Savina has led the creative vision for projects with High Times, My Bud Vase, Women Grow, Oregon Cannabis Association, and countless other brands in the US and abroad.
As the Founder of the Cannabis Workers Coalition, she is responsible for the vision, strategy, and fundraising efforts for the organization as it expands across her home state.
Savina Monet
Graphic Designer
Sadie Red Wing is a Lakota graphic designer and advocate from the Spirit Lake Nation of North Dakota. Her research on cultural revitalization and visual sovereignty has sparked new and long-overdue interest in indigenous perspectives for visual design and communication. Red Wing’s work has been featured in AIGA’s Eye on Design (“Why Can’t the U.S. Decolonize Its Design Education?”) and Communication Arts (“Decolonizing Native American Design”). She holds an MFA in Graphic Design from North Carolina State University.
Sadie Red Wing
Graphic Design/Student Coach
Channel is a Trinidadian-American and Brooklyn, NY native. She’s passionate about working with women and girls in BIPOC communities. Channel served on the PDX Women’s March planning committee for 2 years. She was appointed co-lead organizer of the 20-21 march. She is currently enrolled at PSU and plans to graduate in 2022 with a BA in Social Sciences. Channel has over 10 years experience teaching Early Childhood Ed. She has a love for community organizing, volunteering and event planning.
Channel Ambrose
Consultant/Event Planner
Jo Ann Lorraine is a West Coast native. She thrives on hands-on, collaborative, creative work ranging from digital design to acrylics paintings to 3D sculpting. She considers herself a Joan of All Trades, Master of None as she is constantly exploring new ways to expand her creative skill set.
Jo Ann Lorraine
Graphic Design/Illustrator
David Smith
PPC/Paid Social Advertising
Elaine was born and raised in the Los Angeles County Area. She has over six years of STEAM related education and training. She is a firm believer in the power of data as well as using art and science as a tool for social justice. Elaine is especially passionate about climate change and its effects on human health. Her experience working with underserved communities includes educating low-income communities on sustainability concepts pertaining to environmental health. She is also experienced with using social media as a tool for health education in African and African American communities. Elaine brings her experience and knowledge of cultural humility to STCK Design.
Elaine Gabat, MS
Global Health Professional
Elisha is a filmmaker and photographer, a multidisciplinary thinker and dreamer, driven by the power of creating cinematic experiences. He’s had the opportunity to work in a variety of creative environments as a photographer, designer, a DP, and art director.
Elisha Brodsky
Cinematography
Sarah is a photographer based in Portland, Ore. After starting in the nonprofit world working with Indigenous communities around the West, she moved on to photograph a wide array of stories for various publications. She firmly believes that communities are not defined by their problems and that photography is a medium of power dynamics that shapes how we are seen. Dedicated to creating images that portray underexposed communities as they wish to be seen, she continues to work with nonprofits around the world to tell stories that do more than scratch the surface.
Sarah Yeoman
Photographer
Gabriel is a songwriter from the State of Mexico living in Portland, OR, since 2016. Gabriel was previously part of the Mexican band Buried Under Stars, with now-members of the band Loiis. In 2019 he released his first solo work, entitled "Aguanta" - written and produced by himself. This was an EP inspired by bands like Canseco, Julen y La Gente Sola, and R.E.M.
Gabriel Benavente
Songwriter/Digital Media
Jino Kopiako
Digital Design/Coding
Kayla Brock is a photographer, social media manager and copywriter who has worked with organizations such as Travel Oregon, SF Chronicle, Portland Monthly and KPTV. She has a strong passion for traveling, representing voices of color, arts and culture and has a demonstrated history of working in the publishing and broadcast industry.
Kayla Brock
Photographer/Writer
Liana is a classically trained Austrian/ American visual artist. After she received her bachelor’s degree in arts from the University of Nevada, Reno, Weber moved to Austria and opened her atelier where she currently creates. As an artist Liana's goal is to create easily understandable works of art that address the cultural constructs of sexuality, power, identity and gender. Weber incorporates imagery from mythical, religious and historical artistic iconography and replaces the traditional use of female subjectivity with brash unapologetic female figures.
Liana Z Weber
Artist
Simon is a weird and wonderful designer with a BFA in illustration. She is a co-founder of LA Zine Fest and the inaugural Director of Equity and Inclusion at AIGA Portland.
Simon Sotelo
Brand Design/Art Director
Madison is a community health professional based in Reno, Nevada. Her portfolio includes work in both the nonprofit and public sectors and experience in group and stakeholder facilitation. She has worked on victim's assistance training, tobacco prevention and control, community engagement, and health care policy. Passionate about health care access and its intersection with the social determinants of health for improved health and community outcomes, Maddie is always excited to support the needs of mission-driven organizations.
Madison Huntley
Public Health Professional
Meredith has been in the professional art of storytelling for nearly 15 years. Her combined background in live performance, arts education and creative writing led the way for her more recent endeavors in the online marketing industry. She is a savvy brand strategist who specializes in engaging and inspiring her audience. As an avid writer, her strongest suit is finding the unique "voice" within each brand she works with and executing an online presence that delivers both emotionality and connectivity. She is thrilled to be a part of the STCK team.
Meredith Mitchell
Marketing/Copy Strategist
With over 20 years' experience in journalism for some of the world's biggest news organizations, Rosemary’s skills represent a combination of natural curiosity honed through the practice of photography, investigative news reporting, interviews, features and travel to over 100 countries, as well as start-to-finish editing, layout and online presentation of media from gritty photo-stories to glossy luxury travel magazines. Rosemary now enjoys using her skills to make a difference for organizations whose missions match her values, which include a shared humanity, loyalty, support, connection, determination, creativity, appreciation and gratitude. Her perspective is invaluable for mission-driven organizations who wish to communicate clearly and efficiently in a competitive and crowded media landscape, where making an impact needs to be backed with both substance and style.
Rosemary Behan
Copywriter
Jake is a passionate coffee drinker with the shakey hands to prove it.
His other traits include being far too nice to people, a personality often described as “Golden Retriever”-esque, and having a sweet monitor-tan from too much time in front of a computer-- pushing keyframes and taking names. Since graduating from the University of Oregon with a BA in Cinema Studies, Jake has further honed his skills as an animator, editor, sound designer, and buddy to all.
Whether it’s grinding out a Large-Budget Commercial for a client or pushing keyframes around to get the perfect motion on a delicate animation piece, Jake has the skills and experience to dive head-first into any part of the post-production process. Whether it’s color-grading, sound design, 3d animation or a precise edit, he has the know-how to create the compelling content you need to drive your digital storytelling.
Jake Sullivan
Animator/Editor
As an expert in fundraising and intercultural communication, Caliopy works with organizations to develop and optimize their fundraising programs to inspire generosity, cultivate empathy, deepen learning, and connect people across cultures in mutually beneficial ways.
Caliopy has worked with such organization in more than sixty countries on five continents. After leading the fundraising department of an international NGO, she founded her consultancy to help organizations grow and formalize their initiatives into scalable programs, as well as to push back against exploitative elements often inherent in the charitable sector. Today she is a recognized expert on the topics of ethical storytelling and ethical client engagement.
Part strategist, part facilitator, and part project manager, Caliopy supports teams in developing programs that connect supporters directly to the causes they champion. Having once been in the exact situation as many of her clients, she understands that a successful strategy needs to be grounded in attainable revenue goals, smooth implementation, and deep intercultural acumen. Today, she draws from her unique skills in all three areas to provide comprehensive solutions to nonprofits, philanthropic groups, social benefit corporations, and foundations.
Caliopy Glaros
Fundraising Expert
Ruby is an artist from Baltimore, Maryland, specializing in detailed, fine line blackwork tattoos. She is influenced by scientific illustrations, printmaking. conceptual surrealism, and nature. Ruby graduated from The Baltimore School for the Arts in 2014 and moved to Portland, Oregon where she attended Forbidden School of Body Art and Tattoo. She currently works out of Saint and Sinners Tattoo in Southeast Portland.
Ruby Lee
Fine Tattoo Artist/Illustrator
Sarah is a Nutritionist, educator, and CPA based in Portland, OR. Prior to moving to Portland to pursue her Masters in Nutrition and Global Health, she spent seven fulfilling years working in the fields of finance and accounting in both for profit and not-for profit organizations. In pivoting her career four years ago to focus on nutrition and global health, she now focuses her time on educating students on the aspects of personal nutrition and providing hospitality and nourishment for her colleagues in the non-profit sector. Sarah has a deep commitment to public service, creating equitable systems that support vulnerable populations in low resource settings, and ensuring communities have access to proper nutrition and nourishment.
Sarah Molbert, MS
Nutrition Instructor/CPA
Brontee studied and worked in the field of information systems for several years in Reno, Nevada. After leaving the traditional work environment to teach English as a foreign language in third world countries, she continues to pursue her passion for graphic & web design as a freelancer. She is influenced by different cultures and communities around her and strongly believes in the power of information and the positive impact an online presence can have for organizations and communities in need. After several years living abroad in Asia, Brontee has returned to her favorite city in Mexico-Querétaro, where she currently lives. Brontée speaks Spanish fluently as well as basic Vietnamese. She enjoys front-end web development and functional languages like JavaScript.
Brontee Gable
Graphic/Web Designer
Hi, I'm Jonny.
I dabble in the art (and science) of content ops and growth marketing; I also have flights of fancy from time to time. What am I about? Outside of kickin' the teeth in on GTM strategy for digital activations – I'm a loving husband, dad twice over, ranked Nevada ping pong player (once upon a time), master high-fiver, a connoisseur of coffee, and AYCE Sushi champ.
Jonny Barragan
Growth Marketer/Copywriting
Born in the Philippines and raised in Hawai’i—Maria is a multidisciplinary artist located in Portland, OR. A maker and lover of art + design equipped with technical knowledge and skills, currently in the talent acquisition field. She is an advocate for underserved and underprivileged communities.
Maria Regine Cabbab
Illustrator/ Graphic Design