Gift Bag Vendors and Filmmakers
At this year’s RE, attendees will be provided with a gift bag filled with products from Oregon IDA-supported vendors and sponsors! There will also be short film screenings from Oregonian filmmakers centering on social and economic justice issues and stories. Get to know the wonderful Oregon IDA-supported vendors and the filmmakers below!
Gift Bag Vendors
Ahara Rasa
Ahara Rasa is a grass-fed ghee company handcrafted in the PNW. We use time-honored methods and pure ingredients, always made the traditional way over an open flame. Every flavor is crafted with care and brings warmth and depth to your kitchen.Sustainability is woven into everything we do. Our Ghee production process is completely plastic free, and we are dedicated to limiting waste in our process. Each choice we make is with care for our community, our customers, and the planet we share.We’re a small scaling producer focused on creativity, quality, and thoughtful sourcing. Our ghee is strictly made in small batches 0% plastic in production and made by the same two people every time. We enjoy engaging directly with our community, offering samples, and sharing how ghee fits into everyday cooking.
Location: Portland
https://www.instagram.com/iloveghee/
Bare Moon Farm
Bare Moon Farm is a small woman-run farm and retail store lovingly owned by Rebekah and Cosette Lowry in beautiful coastal Manzanita, Oregon. We’re flower farmers and florists first, but we also make an increasingly popular line of artisan soaps, candles, and other body care products. Made in the traditional cold process, our soap and natural body care products are made from exceptional organic oils and butters, essential oils, and botanical colorants. Our long-burning candles are made with specially sourced paraffin-free, soy wax with unique and natural scents.
Location: Manzanita
https://baremoonfarm.square.site/
HerbnHood
Ancestry: Kanienkeha:ka (Mohawk)
HerbnHood was created to promote food sovereignty and traditional healing through natural, botanical products. As an Onkwehonwe, the Mohawk word for First People, I believe the earth provides all food and medicine needed for health and wellness. That is why I use high-quality, plant-based ingredients inspired by Onkwehonwe teachings. From medicinal teas and remedies to self-care products, HerbnHood uses organic, herbs cultivated in Roseburg where I have a big garden that I steward. HerbnHood products can be found on Etsy as well as retailers in Portland OR and Kahnawake, the Mohawk reserve where my family resides. I also vend at powwows, the Indigenous Marketplace, and farmers markets throughout the Pacific Northwest. It is an honor to be able to offer high-quality products to my community and share the Traditional Ecological Knowledge that has been passed down to me. Agriculture for the culture!
https://www.instagram.com/herbnhood/
https://www.etsy.com/shop/Herbnhood
Queen’s Kitchen
I’m Lanisha Brown, founder of Queen’s Kitchen, a passion-born beauty and wellness brand established in May 2021. What began as a hobby creating handcrafted facial sugar scrubs grew into a business rooted in intention, care, and self-love. My background as a licensed massage therapist taught me how the body carries stress and how powerful intentional touch and care can be. That understanding inspires every product I create, with formulas designed to nourish, restore, and protect your skin.
Queen’s Kitchen began with a simple realization: I had created a spa experience in my own home, filled with warmth, ritual, and moments of peace. I wanted to bottle that feeling and share it with others. I believe self-care isn’t a luxury—it’s a necessity. Queen’s Kitchen encourages you to slow down, reclaim a moment for yourself, and bring the spa home.
Light a candle. Open a jar. Breathe.
Queen’s Kitchen: It's a spa in a jar.
Location: Beaverton
Links:
https://www.queenskitchenpdx.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Queenskitchen444
https://www.instagram.com/queenskitchenbeautypdx
OnPoint Community Credit Union
OnPoint has been improving the lives of our members and the communities we serve—including Portland, Vancouver, Eugene and Bend—for 90 years. In that time, we’ve grown to be the largest member-owned financial institution headquartered in Oregon with more than 661,850 loyal members. At OnPoint, our purpose is to build strong communities by supporting financial growth and well-being, one person at a time. Our vision is to be the leader in delivering extraordinary experiences and value to our community.
https://www.instagram.com/onpointcu/
Filmmakers
Brutis Baez
Brutis “Bigg B” Baez grew up on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation and is proudly descended from the Warm Springs, Wasco, and Nez Perce peoples. As a Warm Springs tribal member, he learned traditional teachings from his mother’s family and remains deeply engaged in ceremonies that continually balance his personal and professional life.
Brutis’ creative focus extends beyond performance and production. He is actively involved in music and video production, announcing, and promotion—driving projects that bring roots, history, and contemporary expression to the forefront. His latest venture includes producing and archiving tribal history for the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, with a clear mission: to ensure every community member has access to their roots and heritage.
Driven by a deep respect for his ancestors and a commitment to visibility for his people, Brutis continues to blend media, music, and cultural preservation in ways that empower and inspire hiscommunity.
Erick Durano
Erick Durano is a Portland-based filmmaker that specializes in short-documentaries, commercial work, and corporate videos. He runs EJD Visuals, a video production company serving various clients throughout Oregon including Travel Oregon, Adidas, Nike, and Intel. Erick completed the MESO and IDA programs in 2023 after leaving a career in social media management to pursue fulltime filmmaking, aiming to gain the tools and support needed to operate a sustainable business. The IDA program helped propel his business to new heights, by allowing him the funds required to buy new cameras, lenses, and software that enabled him to pursue larger projects, get hired for more operating roles, and improve the overall quality of his videos.
Erick was born in Cebu, Philippines and immigrated to the United States at age 7. He attended Oregon State University where he was introduced to filmmaking by being part of the Orange Media Network. In 2018 he graduated with a Bachelor's in Digital Communications and worked as a Social Media Manager for different corporations until he started his business in 2023.
Jason McNeal Graham
and Kenneth Adams
Jason McNeal Graham, known as MOsley WOtta, is a Chicago-born, Oregon-based multidisciplinary artist working in poetry, performance, painting, film, and community organizing. His practice explores identity, belonging, racial equity, and human connection, with a focus on Black creative life in rural Oregon.
In a recent portrait taken at the Central Library (photo by Kenneth Adams at Liberation Endured Productions), Graham is pictured surrounded by his own commissioned paintings—bold, layered works that blend text, color, and personal history. The image captures how his creative practice lives in public spaces and invites conversation.
Graham is the creator and director of Sketch and Release, a touring multimedia docu-series and performance project centering Black creatives in rural Oregon. Co-directed and filmed by Kenneth Adams of Liberation Endured Productions, the project blends filmed interviews, poetry, storytelling, music, and guided conversation into a 60-minute experience designed for libraries, campuses, theaters, and community spaces. Touring from spring 2026 through spring 2027, Sketch and Release visits venues across Central and rural Oregon, featuring new documentary episodes, live performances, and locally tailored dialogues. Supported by major Oregon foundations, the project aims to build sustainable, equity-focused cultural infrastructure in rural regions while lifting up diverse Black perspectives and fostering connections across the state. Find out more at sketchandrelease.net.
Jordan Henline
88.8 Film and Photography owned by Jordan Henline provides photography and videography services in the PNW area. We believe that every company and individual has a story to tell. We offer an array of high-quality media services tailored for every unique client’s needs, from large corporations, to small business, to individuals. We believe in fostering lasting relationships built on creativity, professionalism, and innovation. Whether that be multi-cam corporate events, capturing concerts and weddings, food and drink photography for your restaurant, or portraits for you and your dog, we strive to create compelling and intentional media to meet the needs of each and every client.
Ernesto Herrera Pelegrino
I am a Cuban photographer and visual storyteller based in Aloha, Oregon, with more than a decade of experience in photography and visual media. Throughout my career, I have specialized in photojournalism, weddings, graduations, family portraits, children's photography, and community events, developing a documentary style that captures authentic emotions and meaningful moments. My passion is creating timeless images that tell genuine stories while providing every client with a comfortable, personalized, and memorable experience. I would like to express my sincere gratitude for the support I have received over the past several months through IRCO’s IDA Program. When I began this journey, a year ago, in a new country, I had many ideas, dreams, and a strong desire to grow Eliora Studio, but I also had many questions about how to turn those ideas into a sustainable business with real opportunities for growth. IDA not only helped me strengthen my knowledge of business management, but also gave me the tools to create, structure, and strengthen a business plan with a clear vision for growth and scalability. As an immigrant and small business owner, I understand how challenging it can be to start over in a new country and learn how to navigate an entirely new environment.Thank you to IRCO and the IDA Program for believing in small business owners and for investing not only in our businesses, but also in our skills, our confidence, and our future.
Labs
In the winter of 2021, Loyalty Hustler was eager to find safety and stability for herself and her two kids in a world that offered them very little of either. In the midst of the pandemic, Loyalty’s opportunity came when she happened upon a basic income pilot program offering $500 a month to 100 Black mothers – no strings attached. Like many of the other women who signed up, Loyalty began feeling the stress of survival mode ease up just enough to start thinking about building generational wealth and healing generational trauma. Then, in the spring of 2024, local politics brought the Multnomah Mothers Trust under conservative scrutiny and the program was dramatically shuttered, leaving Loyalty and her children in a familiar position of precarity.
The idea of guaranteed income is not new. Martin Luther King Jr., the Black Panther Party, the Wages For Housework movement and others advocated throughout the 1960’s and 70’s for guaranteed income as an economic justice policy and an act of reparation. In recent years Universal Basic Income (UBI) has made a powerful re-appearance on the national stage, in part spurred by increasing wealth inequality and the fear of mass unemployment driven by AI.
Our goals with this film are to document a successful guaranteed income program for the public record, inspire future UBI initiatives in Multnomah County and beyond, and to honor the mothers’ stories.
We are currently fundraising to complete the film and can be reached at ibell@labspdx.org