Hey!
My name is Samantha Bakall, I’m a queer, second-gen Chinese American strategic communications leader and journalist living in Portland, Oregon.
Most recently, I was the Communications Director at Seeding Justice, where I built and executed a strategic narrative communications program from the ground up and led the rebrand and website overhaul that transformed the organization from MRG Foundation into Seeding Justice.
From 2013 - 2018, I worked for The Oregonian and was the only staff food writer of color in the state and since 2018 have continued working as a freelance writer specializing in equity-based food issues, particularly surrounding the AAPI diaspora in the Pacific Northwest.
As a passionate writer and mentor, I also taught historically excluded youth interested in journalism for five years, and in 2019 and 2020, designed and ran Amplify, a summer internship for high school journalists from historically excluded communities in partnership with Metro and Pamplin Media.