Unite Oregon
Juan Pedro Nicanor Moreno Olmeda is an experienced community organizer and soccer coach currently serving as the Head Coach of the Multicultural Soccer Club at Hillsboro High School since January 2024, and as a Community Organizer for Unite Oregon since January 2023, focusing on the WASHCO initiative. Previous experience includes roles as a Volunteer Assistant Soccer Coach at Hillsboro High School, Store Manager and Sales Representative at Serenity Vapor Lounge, and various positions at Warner Pacific University, including Student Case Manager and Financial Services Intern. Juan Pedro holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration and Management and a Bachelor’s degree in the same field from Warner Pacific University, complemented by a Chancellor’s Degree from Hillsboro High School.
Unite Oregon
Unite Oregon is a statewide racial and social justice nonprofit working to eliminate systemic inequities and fight for a more just and equitable society for immigrants, refugees, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (IR-BIPOC), rural communities, and low-income Oregonians. Today, we are the only intercultural movement building nonprofit in Oregon with four chapters in both northern and southern (rural) Oregon serving 22,000+ members/supporters and working successfully to organize communities across the urban-rural divide. Unite Oregon represents the merger of two strong organizations that came together in 2015 – Center for Intercultural Organizing and Oregon Action – who have decades of experience mobilizing and empowering community members from many different backgrounds, immigration statuses and socio-cultural experiences to organize for change. Grounded in the belief that organizing people who are suffering inequity has the greatest potential to affect the root causes of economic, political and social injustice, we involve our IR-BIPOC members in all aspects of program development/implementation. We use community-led issue campaigns as opportunities to train new leaders, amplify community voice, engage volunteers in base-building and advocacy initiatives, and grow our membership base. We measure our effectiveness not just with policy wins, but by numbers of leaders developed, and members engaged. Through Unite Oregon, immigrants, refugees, and people of color develop a unified voice, advocate for their rights, and create an environment in which they are recognized and supported as valued community members.