Meet Our Coalition Organizer, Anti-Displacement Coalition, Michelle Yemaya

Michelle Yemaya | she/her/goddess

Michelle Yemaya is no longer a team member here at Imagine Black. Her presence and hard work will continue to have an impact on the organization moving forward.

Californian native Michelle Yemaya believes that PAALF is exactly what our community needs right now: an organization that empowers our community to be transformative leaders, ones who lead by example. 

Yemaya believes that transformative leaders bring a high level of integrity and accountability, and that they take action to produce change.

Yemaya comes to PAALF with a leadership background in peer support and community advocacy, and is the co-founder and Secretary of the Black Community of Portland, a grassroots non-profit organization. 

Through her activism, Goddess also places a strong emphasis on Blackonomics by supporting local Black-owned businesses, being a consumer, and creating pop-up markets.

When Yemaya is given a seat at the table, she brings an extra chair for a brilliant peer, and a level of accountability and unapologetic conduct that is visible from the minute she takes her seat.