Siniva Bennett was raised in American Samoa, California and Oregon. She is a longtime member and current board member of Samoa Pacifc Development Corporation, a non-profit founded in Portland, Oregon to serve and empower the Samoan and Pacifc Islander communities. She received a Master’s degree from the University of Hawaii in Pacific Islands studies for her thesis “Warriors, at What Cost?” a political analysis of U.S. militarization and American Samoa. She holds a law degree from the University of Oregon.

Sayer has 15 years of direct experience working with institutions structuring and measuring the impacts of their investments. He led the regional impact investing practice at Meyer Memorial Trust in program related investment and mission related investment portfolios for 12 years, deploying over $50 million. Sayer has chaired city and state boards focused on impact investing and managing public portfolios for impact. He has led investors in workshops to align social values with financial and cultural returns, and has experience as an entrepreneur, representing asset owners, and managing fund managers and consultants. Sayer is also on the Board of the Oregon Capital Scan, which collects and presents data to identify gaps in Oregon’s investment ecosystem and guide economic development strategies to address those gaps. Sayer is a board member of the Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon, the Oregon Growth Board and the Indian Land Capital Company.

Nhi Nguyen is a Strategic Planning Consultant at Legacy Health, where she supports the leadership team in their decisions related to the strategic growth and business development. Her work portfolio includes facility planning, healthcare community needs assessment, partnership evaluation, and merger and acquisition planning. Nhi Nguyen has a strong passion for Healthcare as she understands many challenges that the industry is facing and the significant impacts it has on the community.

Nhi’s interest in nonprofit work was kindled since a young age by her mother’s active community involvement as a social worker in a rural village in Vietnam. Nhi moved to Portland from Vietnam for her Master Degree in Financial Analysis at Portland State University. Here she continues to be involved in many activities in the Vietnamese community. In addition to her involvement with APANO, Nhi also serves on the Board of Maybelle Center for Community and runs her own business.

As a third-generation of a big Vietnamese family in the U.S. Nhi is the family’s bridge to connect the Vietnamese culture and the American lifestyle. As a mother of two boys, Liam and Louis, Nhi spends most of her free time learning, self-training how to be a “cool” mom, whom her boys could proudly introduce to their friends.