Annette Ramirez (she/her)
CPPW Roles: Bargaining team, organizer, CAT co-lead, and steward
About: With nearly 11 years of service at the City, Annette brings a deep understanding of municipal operations, though she’s relatively new to the Analyst I classification. Her career began in AFSCME-represented roles, where early experiences ignited her passion for labor advocacy—inspiring Annette to volunteer to advance CPPW’s mission!
Her expertise in timekeeping, payroll, and the employee experience fuels her commitment to advancing workplace protections, particularly in addressing inequities and unjust treatment stemming from managerial discretion.
Rachel Jamison (she/her)
CPPW Role: Bargaining team
About: Rachel is a lifelong Portlander and white presenting indigenous woman, waging a war on single use plastics. She cares deeply for the environment and is rooted in core values of fairness and connection. She grew up in a union household and watched her father fight the good fight as a chief steward and her mother alternatively experience an excessive workload because of few employee protections at the workplace.
Rachel previously worked for the City of Camas and served as Treasurer for the Camas Public Employees Association. She’s worn many hats in her 7.5 years at the Portland Water Bureau learning about problematic City policies and inefficiencies. She strives to develop solutions that address the root cause of the problem and reduce disparities, and brings her experience in Lean and Process Improvement, Change Management, and Employee engagement.
Anna DiBennidetto (she/her)
CPPW Role: Bargaining team
About: Anna has worked at the City for 21 years and is in her 4th role as an Administrative Specialist III. She supports the Public Safety bureaus (Fire and PBEM) with position management and as a FMLA coordinator. She has had union and non-rep jobs throughout her life and strongly believes in the power of collective bargaining to improve the work environment for all City employees and workers everywhere.
Anna brings her experience of contract research, understanding HRAR policies, and generally how the City works administratively to the bargaining team! Outside of work, she’s a mother of two, a wife, an avid biker, and an aerial dancer. She loves Portland and enjoys being a part of keeping it a welcoming place to call home.
Kari Koch (she/they)
CPPW Roles: Bargaining team, CPPW President, Executive Board
About: Kari has worked at the City for 10 years, spending nearly 5 of those in her current position at Portland Permitting and Development. Before joining the City to do Community Engagement work, she was a campaign consultant, community and labor organizer, communications manager, and led economic justice campaigns around the state.
At Kari’s core she strongly believes that workers should have power in their workplace and be part of the collective voice of their communities. She’s excited to be on the bargaining team because CPPW’s members deserve a contract that guarantees their rights, protects them, and creates a strong foundation for their seat at the City table. We start here, with this first contract, and we keep growing.
Kimberléa Ruffu (they/she), Taurus
CPPW Role: Bargaining team
About: Kimberléa has worked at the City in their role at Portland Parks and Recreation for 2.5 years with a background in community organizing and engagement, communications, and project management. They also bring their lived experiences as a white, queer, and femme non-binary person (omg so many adjectives!) with disabilities to the bargaining team and table.
Kimberléa joined the bargaining team last January, and she believes that workers and the people hold the power to build and tend to a more just present and future for everyone. They believe that our shared liberation is knit together and that community care is critical. This is the first union she’s been a part of and is proud to contribute to the collective labor movement.
Ashly Hoffman
Coming soon…
Anamaría Peréz
CPPW Role: Bargaining team co-chair
About: Coming soon…
Past bargaining team members we want to recognize and thank for their time, effort, and expertise that they brought to this process!
Jay Richmond (they/them), Jamey Duhamel (she/her), and Jonathan Simeone (he/him)