HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPY MANAGER

Carter oversees our Hyperbaric Oxygen Program and has a myriad of interests, ranging from healthcare and natural sciences to construction and artsy crafts. Formerly an LMT, Carter has returned to the world of healthcare to expand our hyperbaric oxygen treatment clinic into a national program.

When not at the clinic, he enjoys a variety of hobbies that generally involve hand-crafting gifts for friends and attending local comedy shows.

FOUNDER/ EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Dessa is the Executed Director and founded TeamWorks (DBA TendWell) in 2005. She is a licensed acupuncturist practicing Traditional Chinese & Japanese Medicine in Portland, Oregon. She has a private clinical practice and specializes in pain relief, support during stressful times of transition, and support with grieving. Acupuncture is a complete system of medicine, helping the mind and body move through difficult times and is widely recognized for its effectiveness in promoting physical and emotional health. Dessa is board certified in Functional Hyperbaric Medicine

OUTREACH + SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR

Jessica Allen is an educator, advocate, and community-builder with over a decade of experience supporting marginalized youth and families. She has taught, trained, and designed trauma-informed, culturally responsive programs centered on lived experience and equity.

As Outreach Coordinator and Social Media Manager at TeamWorks, she expands peer-delivered services through partnerships, creative campaigns, and accessible programming for LGBTQIA+, disabled, chronically ill, and BIPOC communities.

RUMBLE COLLECTIVE PROGRAM DIRECTOR

Leeba is the program director for TendWells community center, Rumble Collective. They are a queer, neurodivergent, and chronically ill Nursing student, with the goal of working in Palliative medicine. They are also a certified Recovery Peer Mentor, with a deep commitment to harm reduction and outreach. Above all else, they know that navigating healthcare is stressful and exhausting, and will do what they can to lighten that load for our client community.

STRATEGY + COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR

Mars is a creative strategist, energy worker, and psychiatric survivor working at the intersections of story, spirit, and systems change. They guide strategy, fundraising, design and communications, ensuring programs are rooted in lived experience, collective care and community wisdom.

With over a decade in culture-shifting activism and community education, Mars is focused on expanding peer-delivered services and seeding a future of care that is just, imaginative, and liberated from colonial frameworks.

TRAINING & PEER PROGRAM DIRECTOR

Nautilus Torello (he/they) has over a decade of experience transforming peer-delivered services into practices of justice, liberation, and collective care. With deep roots in queer and neurodivergent communities, he has served as peer supporter, director, and consultant, centering mutuality and shared power.

As a certified trainer in Intentional Peer Support (IPS) and Queer IPS, Nautilus challenges pathologizing frameworks and builds culture-shifting approaches rooted in solidarity and community care.