Alex Renirie
Board Member
Alex Renirie (she/her) is a facilitator, community organizer, and participatory process designer who is passionate about engaging with conflict as a tool to build more just worlds. She holds dual Masters degrees in Conflict & Dispute Resolution and Environmental Studies from the University of Oregon and a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from the California Institute of Integral Studies. In her current role as Program Co-Director with Healthy Democracy, she designs and coordinates more inclusive and deliberative community engagement on tough public policy challenges. Her academic research investigates equity-driven facilitation strategies within multi-stakeholder climate change collaboratives and within Oregon’s community advisory bodies.
Alex has also spent over a decade involved in grassroots organizing for environmental and social justice campaigns — including positions with the Sierra Club, American Friends Service Committee, and New Energy Economy. Two of her proudest moments were helping organize the first ‘Keep It In the Ground’ lease auction protest in New Mexico and taking direct action on the steps of the CA capitol building to pass groundbreaking money-out-of-politics legislation. She is trained in nonviolent direct action, Kingian nonviolence, and restorative justice. She brings a strong collaboration- and relationship-driven approach to organizing work and believes that our movements are strongest when we prefiguratively shape the new worlds for which we are fighting.