Staff

Evelyn J. Kocher

Interim Executive Director

Evelyn Kocher grew up in Beaverton and graduated from Oregon State University in 2018 with a degree in cultural anthropology and international studies and is currently based in Beaverton. She is fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, and Indonesian and is proficient in French, Italian, Guarani, and Mandarin Chinese. Her political and communications experience ranges from having spearheaded an OSU electoral organizing club in 2016 to working with Rep. Diego Hernandez during the 2018 legislative session. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, playing games with friends, refereeing soccer, and adding to her list of over thirty countries visited.

Pronouns: she/her
Phone: (971) 645-0980
Email: evelyn [AT] orstudents.org

Tosh Briquet

Organizing Director

Tosh Briquet was born and raised in Springfield, Oregon, to a working-class family with roots in rural Oregon. They attended Lane Community College, where they were heavily involved with the Gender and Sexuality student union, student government, and disability justice student advocacy as well as developing a passion for organizing as a volunteer with OSA. They went on to become the LCC Vote Organizer for the Oregon Student Foundation in both 2016 and 2018. Outside of OSA, Tosh has worked in non-profit advocacy for disability justice, voter outreach for a multiple state House and Senate campaigns, and as the Deputy Regional Field Director for Multnomah County on Governor Brown’s re-election campaign.

Just like most Oregonians, Tosh loves to spend their free time camping and hiking in Oregon’s beautiful forests and deserts when they’re not at home playing video games with their handsome fat cat Chester.

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Phone: (541) 731-1444
Email: tosh [AT] orstudents.org

TBD

Legislative Director

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Email: [AT] orstudents.org

Joseph Cruz

OSCC Field Organizer

Joseph grew up in Fontana, California and studied at both Chaffey Community College and University of California, Riverside, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in international relations. His non-profit work has focused on food relief for migrant workers and refugees. For fun, he likes to bake and play video games.

Pronouns: he/him/his
Phone: 909-341-8564
Email: joseph [AT] orstudents.org

Rick Williams

Equal Rights Organizer

Based in Eugene, Rick has lived in Oregon for the majority of their life after moving here as a child. They have a long history with student organizing beginning as the Vice President (and continuing on to serve as President) at their high school Gay Straight Alliance. While getting their degree in graphic design at Lane Community College, they started as the communications director for their Gender and Sexuality Alliance before serving as president for two years. At that time, they started organizing with OSA in fall of 2015, when they were asked to take over as the LCC’s OSERA board member. They became one of the OSA summer interns in 2016, then LCC’S Vote OR Vote class rap coordinator and an OSCC board member that year. In the following years, they switched between being an OSCC and OSERA board member, at one point sitting on the Board of Governors (BOG) as well. Outside of their experience as a student organizer, they have worked as a freelance educator, panelist, and event programmer. In their free time they like to hang out with their family watching TV, bake, and play video games.

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Phone: 541-224-5051‬
Email: rick [AT] orstudents.org

Vacant

UO Campus Organizer

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Email: [AT] orstudents.org

Jerrel Brown

Lane Community College Campus Organizer

Jerrel grew up in Florence, Oregon and studied at both Lane Community College and the University of Oregon to earn himself a degree in environmental studies. During his studies, he served as an ASLCC senator, sat on OSA’s Board of Directors, and served as Unite The Vote’s Clipboarding Coordinator. Jerrel is a voracious consumer of LitRPG and enjoys spending his free time reading and playing games with friends.

Pronouns: he/him/his
Phone: (541) 206-8318
Email: jerrel [AT] orstudents.org