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Directory
SARAH ANDREWS
503-225-5900 Ext. 707
Development Director
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MAIA MCCARTHY
503-225-5900 Ext. 708
Senior Artist Services Manager
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RYN MCCOY
503-225-5900 Ext. 713
Director of Operations and Equity
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HILLARY MUSHAKA
503-225-5900 Ext. 706
Schools and Community Outreach Manager
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KRISTI RIEDEL
503-225-5900 Ext. 702
Programs Director
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ISABEL THOMPSON
503-225-5900 Ext. 705
School Programs Manager
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MEGAN TROMBETTA
503-225-5900 Ext. 704
Finance and Operations Administrator
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CHRISTI ZORRILLA SOTO
503-225-5900 Ext. 714
Central Oregon Program Manager
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Sarah Andrews
Development Director
Sarah Andrews is a Portland-based director, the Co-Founder of Crave Theatre Company, a professor at Portland Community College in the Multimedia Department, and she is very excited to be working as the Development Director at Arts for Learning Northwest! She holds a BFA in Acting from Central Washington University as well as a Masters in Arts and Culture Leadership and Management from Colorado State.
Sarah is an artist who puts her soul into her work, and she looks forward to exploring the creative possibilities the future has in store. She believes everyone deserves the right to an art and an arts education and is grateful to work for an organization that believes the same.
Maia McCarthy
Senior Artist Services Manager
Maia McCarthy, Senior Artist Services Manager, has worked as an actress, writer, teaching artist and teacher trainer. Maia had an “aha” moment as an educator when she realized she tapped the same skills working on a theatrical production that she used when training teachers toward excellent, value-based, culturally relevant teaching practices.
Maia believes that all quality arts and educational experiences are borne from challenging and collaborative relationships founded on shared values and playful inquiry. Maia has worked with organizations such as Seattle Children’s Theatre, The French American School of Puget Sound, and Profile Theatre in Portland. Most recently Maia spent 7 years with Growing Seeds Learning Community, the last four as the school’s Director. She received her degree BFA in Acting, with a minor in Literature from NYU.
Ryn McCoy
Director of Operations and Equity
A lifelong Oregonian, Ryn was born into a family of musicians and storytellers, and grew up with a passionate love of the arts. She has been a writer since the second grade, and has a degree in English, a background in nonprofit communications, and spent a year as Editor-in-Chief of local publications Proud Queer Monthly and El Hispanic News.
As Director of Operations and Equity, Ryn is interested in building and maintaining an inclusive, anti-oppressive culture, along with thoughtful systems and structures that support all staff and partners, and help to advance the equity-focused goals of the organization.
Hillary Mushaka
Schools and Community Outreach Manager
Hillary comes to Arts for Learning Northwest with background in arts education and administration.
As the Schools and Community Outreach Manager, Hillary is thrilled to work with others who share a passion for arts equity for students. She believes that arts education is an essential part of learning and that organizations like Arts for Learning Northwest are necessary for creating strong, connected communities.
Kristi Riedel
Programs Director
Kristi Riedel, the Programs Director for Arts for Learning NW, is a Portland native with a great love for exploring other parts of the world.
Her career has focused on arts education in many different forms. She has been an administrator of arts outreach programs and a camp director for the Portland Children’s Museum. She has been a teaching artist, bringing materials into local schools to integrate them into the classroom, and running workshops with other community organizations. Clay is her favorite medium both in teaching and in her own art.
She is an outdoor enthusiast and tries to spend as much time in the woods as she can while enabling others to do the same including her adorable two year old.
Isabel Thompson
School Programs Manager
Isabel has an extensive background as a classical music performer. She has vast experience teaching music and Spanish, language translating and interpreting, music industry customer service and sales, and nonprofit artistic production and community direct service. A Costa Rican native, she holds a doctorate in music performance with emphasis on clarinet. Her passion for arts education began at the Costa Rican National Institute of Music, where she could attend music lessons and ensemble practice at no cost, due to grants and scholarships. Later on, she studied in the U.S. thanks to music scholarships and graduate assistantships. Isabel believes that arts education is essential for human learning, as well as for personal and community development. She was accepted into the 2024-25 National Leaders of Color Fellowship Program representing Oregon and Creative West.
Megan Trombetta
Finance and Operations Administrator
Megan is a nonprofit accountant bringing a wide variety of professional and lived experience to her role as Finance and Operations Administrator at Arts for Learning NW. Originally from the southwest, Megan earned a degree in gender studies and nonprofit management from Arizona State University in 2009. After relocating to the beautiful Pacific Northwest, she pursued a masters in education, and served as a math teacher for 5 years in OR and WA public schools. In 2019 she turned her love of solutions and systems toward a second career in nonprofit accounting. She is a lifelong student and volunteer who is passionate about the transformative power of relationships across social justice movements. She lives in SW Portland with her wife and one spunky kitten.
Christi Zorrilla Soto
Central Oregon Program Manager
Christi Zorrilla is a multicultural visual artist and educator with several years of experience working with arts and culture non-profit organizations. She received her bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts at the School of Fine Arts - Peru and a master’s degree in Education. Her career has focused on art education in different fields, she has been a bilingual museum educator at Larco Museum and she has also taught visual arts for multiple grade levels in private schools and colleges. In 2016, Christi co-founded Correlacion Contemporanea Art Residency and Education Programs, where she has worked for the past 5 years providing arts education to Native Amazon communities and professional development programs for art students.
As an artist, Christi’s artworks seek to point out the value of ancestors, native arts and cultures, and expose the delicate process of global migration through minimal sculptures and art installations.