Education
1993 - BA, History Humboldt State University, Arcata CA
Special Training
2024 - Video Editing Portland Community College, Portland OR
2023 - Digital Media Foundations Portland Community College, Portland, OR
Professional Experience
2020 - Present Operations Manager, Outside the Frame, Portland OR
Manage all aspects of maintaining the space, organizational scaffolding, and supporting staff, contractors, peer mentors, and other paid workers. Engage in troubleshooting and creative problem solving.
2012 - 2020 Program Director, KBOO Community Radio, Portland OR
Provide leadership for all on air and podcast programming at KBOO and assure quality radio programming that meets the goals of the KBOO Foundation.
2004 - 2020 Youth Advocate, KBOO Community Radio, Portland OR
Support the KBOO Youth Collective and other youth volunteers at KBOO Community Radio including trainings, outreach, and organizational support
2012 Audio Editor, Know Your City, Portland OR
Support Know Your City publications with audio recording and editing
2000 - 2001 Production Fellow, This American Life, WBEZ, Chicago, IL
Observe and participate in all aspects of the radio show’s weekly production including structuring and pitching stories, basic editing, reporting, interviewing and mixing audio pieces
Teaching Experience
2022 Podcast Instructor, Portland Art Museum Center for the Untold Story
2021 Adjunct Professor, Podcasting, Art Department, Portland State University, Portland OR
2013 - 2018 Digital Editing Instructor, Radio U, Media Institute for Social Change, Portland OR
2016 Teaching Artist with Alex Luboff, Open School East, Portland, OR
2015 Teaching Artist with Turiya Autrey, Caldera Arts Camp, Sisters, OR
2014 Teaching Artist HB Lee Middle School, Portland, OR
Publications
Audio
2024
Fight the Power, Do No Harm Audio Documentary
Producer, Interviewer, Writer, Editor
With Jodi Darby, Honna Veerkamp
2022
Down with the Sickness Podcast
Producer, Interviewer, Writer, Editor
With Mic Crenshaw, Celina Flores
Funded by the Western States Center
Dead Moon Night 5th Anniversary Radio Special
Producer, DJ
With Toody Cole, Toby Hardman, Eric Isaacson, Jay Martin, Jason Vasquez
2021
It Did Happen Here Podcast
Executive Producer, Editor, Writer, Interviewer
With Mic Crenshaw, Celina Flores, Alec Dunn, Moe Bowstern, Julie Perini
Partially funded by the Marla Davis Fund
2020
People’s History of Music Podcast
Producer and Editor
With Eric Isaacson, Rebecca Gilbert
Funded by the Regional Arts and Culture Council
A Very Negativland Christmas Radio Special
Producer, Host
With Toby Hardman, Rich Lindsey
2019
Noxeema 7” vinyl record
Designer, Musician
With Katie Burkhart, Marat Cackley-Hughes, Cissie Scurlock
2018
Bright Spark: A Podcast focusing on Harm Reduction
Producer, Editor, Interviewer, Co-host
With Alec Dunn
2016
Institute for Anarchist Studies Lexicon
Producer, Editor
2014
Xtra Tuf 6.75: Report from Uyak Bay Audiozine
Producer, Editor
With Moe Bowstern
2013
No Sir I Won’t self titled vinyl record
Sample Editor
With Dan Joseph
Use That Dial Audiozine
Producer, Editor, Recorder
2012
Songs about Love and Death Audiozine
Producer, Editor
With Moe Bowstern
2011
Three Dead Princes, Audiobook
Executive Producer, Editor, Recorder
With Danbert Nobacon
Funded by the Regional Arts and Culture Council
2010
House of Sound: Handing out Joy Audiozine
Producer, Editor
Video
2023
Keaton Otis Memorial Art Unveiling
Director, Producer
With Jodi Darby, Julie Perini
Stories I’ve Told the Stars
Producer, Interviewer
With Fevan Solomon
2017
The Gentleman Bank Robber
Assistant Editor, Coach
With Julie Perini
2015
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland
Co-Producer, Co-Director
With Jodi Darby, Julie Perini
Partially funded by the Precipice Fund Project Grant
2013
Safe & Sound? Artists Respond to Police Violence
Co-Producer, Co-Director
With Jodi Darby, Julie Perinijodi d
2012
Every Now and Then You Win
Interviewer, Audio Editor, Co-Producer, Co-Director
With Jodi Darby
2010
Stonewall
Co-editor, Co-producer
With Jodi Darby
Gift to Winter: The Story of the Winter Solstice Puppet Collective Documentary
Producer, Director, Videographer, Editor
With Jodi Darby
Print
2025
What’s Goin On #3-14
Publisher, Writer, Editor
With Moe Bowstern
Our Book
Editor, Project Manager
Written by Dr. Mary Ann O’Neill and Bill Journey (deceased)
2024
Ural Thomas “Nat-Ural” Liner Notes
Interviewer, Editor
With Eric Isaacson
What’s Goin On #1-2
Publisher, Writer, Editor
With Moe Bowstern
Chasing the Night #11
Publisher, Writer, Editor
2023
It Did Happen Here: An Antifascist People’s History - An Oral History
Author, Editor
With Moe Bowstern, Mic Crenshaw, Alec Dunn, Celina Flores, Julie Perini
Published by PM Press
Chasing the Night #10
Publisher, Writer, Editor
2022
Chasing the Night #9
Publisher, Writer, Editor
2021
An Elders Guide to Plywood City
Writer, Photographer, Publisher
With Moe Bowstern
Chasing the Night zine #8
Publisher, Editor
2020
Dead Moon: Off the Grid
Writer, Interviewer
With Eric Isaacson and SZIM
Chasing the Night zine #7
Publisher, Editor
Chasing the Night zine #6
Publisher, Editor
2019
Chasing the Night zine #5
Publisher, Editor
2018
Dead Moon
Editor, Interviewer
With Eric Isaacson, SZIM
2017
Chasing the Night zine #4
Publisher, Editor
2016
Chasing the Night zine #3
Publisher, Editor
2015
Chasing the Night zine #2
Publisher, Editor
2014
Chasing the Night zine #1
Publisher, Editor
2013
The Rats “In A Desperate Red” Liner Notes
Author, Editor
With Eric Isaacson, SZIM
2012
Hagar The Womb “A Brighter Shade of Black” Music Album
Liner Notes Author
With Alex Yusimov
Public Speaking Experience
2025
Growing Prevention Community Chat
Zoom hosted by Prevent Child Abuse Oregon and Sexual Assault Task Force Oregon
With Rowan Schwartz, Communications Director with OCADSV and Rachel Visser, Prevention Education Manager KIDS Center
Collaboration and Creation: Podcasting and media work with community and care
Zoom, Hosted by Amy Cimini of the UC San Diego Department of Music
2024
IDHH visit with ART 358: Video, Design, Community class
Portland State University, Portland, OR
with Mic Crenshaw, Moe Bowstern, Julie Perini
It Did Happen Here Workshop Co:Lab
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
with Mic Crenshaw
2023
Teaching Social Justice by Analyzing Media Bias
The 16th Annual Northwest Teaching for Social Justice Conference, Portland, OR
with Mic Crenshaw, Emilie Krutzik
It Did Happen Here Workshop Co:Lab
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
with Mic Crenshaw
2022
It Did Happen Here: Histories of Fighting white supremacists in Portland
Pacific Northwest History Conference, Pasco Washington
2021
It Did Happen Here Podcast Presentation
Portland People’s History Project, DaVinci Middle School, Portland OR
With Moe Bowstern, Mic Crenshaw, Celina Flores, Tom Tenger
It Did Happen Here
Media Activism Lecture Series, Portland State University, Portland, OR
It Did Happen Here Workshop
Native American Youth Association, Portland OR
With Jodi Darby
2019
Arresting Power Film Screening and Artist Talk
Disarm PSU Film Festival, Fifth Avenue Cinema, Portland OR
Arresting Power Film Screening and Artist Talk
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland OR
With Jodi Darby, Julie Perini
Podcasting 101 Workshop
Activists Mobilizing for Power Conference, Spokane WA
2018
Social Impact Media Lecture Series Guest Speaker
Community Media and Ethical Engagement, Reed College, Portland OR
Mississippi Records Music and Film Night Host and Producer
Hollywood Theater, Portland OR
2017
Arresting Power Documentary Screening and Discussion
Strange Tales: Matthew Cowan Resource Room Residency, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland OR
Arresting Power Documentary Artist Talk
Media Institute for Social Change, Portland OR
Arresting Power Documentary Artist Talk
Columbia River Correctional Facility, Portland OR
With Jodi Darby
Arresting Power Documentary Screening
Leaven Community Center, Portland OR
Media Artist Panel
Franklin High School, Portland OR
Arresting Power Documentary Artist Talk
New Expressive Works, Portland OR
With Julie Perini
2016
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening
Fifth Avenue Cinema, Portland OR
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening
Martin Luther King Jr. Worker Center, Portland OR
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening and Discussion
Media Institute for Social Change, Portland, OR
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Discussion
Franklin High School, Portland, OR
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening and Discussion
New Expressive Works, Portland OR
With Julie Perini
First 100 Days Audio Workshop leader and event organizer
Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
With Jodi Darby, Esther Forbyn, Amy Harwood, Julie Perini, Ryan Pierce, Sharita Towne, Patricia Vasquez
Event MC
Waterfront River Festival, Cathedral Park, Portland, OR
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening and Discussion
Portland Community College Cascade Campus, Portland, OR
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening and Discussion
Portland State University, Portland OR
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening and Discussion
Catlin Gabel High School, Portland OR
With Julie Perini
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening
Cube Cinema, Bristol, England
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening
Headroom Screening Series, Iowa City IA
2015
Radio and Social Movements Presentation
Cascade Media convergence, Portland Community College Cascade Campus, Portland OR
With Jodi Darby, Julie Perini
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening and Discussion
Northwest Filmmakers Festival, Portland OR
With Julie Perini
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening and Discussion
Social Docs Series, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston IL
With Julie Perini
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening and Discussion
Gresham High School Social Justice Film Festival, Gresham, OR
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening
Harlem International Film Festival, New York NY
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening and Discussion
Clinton Street Theater, Portland OR
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening
Visible Evidence XXII Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening and Discussion
Blackwater, Portland OR
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening
Kenton Branch, Multnomah County Library, Portland OR
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening
All Souls Unitarian Church, Tulsa OK
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening
Interference Archive, Brooklyn NY
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening and Discussion
Clinton Street Theater, Portland OR
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening
Sloan’s Tavern, Portland OR
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening
University of Washington, Seattle WA
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening
Highline College, Des Moines WA
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening and Discussion
Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco CA
With Jodi Darby, Julie Perini
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening and Discussion
Blackhole Cinema, Oakland CA
With Jodi Darby, Julie Perini
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening and Discussion
Kala Art Institute, Berkeley CA
With Jodi Darby, Julie Perini
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening and Discussion
San Francisco State University, San Francisco CA
With Jodi Darby, Julie Perini
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening and Discussion
Fifth Avenue Cinema, Portland OR
With Jodi Darby, Julie Perini
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening and Discussion
First Unitarian Church, Portland OR
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening and Discussion
Reed College, Portland OR
With Jodi Darby, Julie Perini
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening
Center for Intercultural Organizing, Portland OR
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening
University of Portland Black Lives Matter, Portland OR
Listen Hard: Stories of Resistance and Resilience Listening Party and Oral History Workshop
Groundswell Oral History for Social Change, Portland OR
With Julie Perini, Laura Hadden, Laura Lo Forti
Gathering Resistance: Black Lives Matter: The Artists’ Call
Pacific Northwest College of Art
With Jess Chen, Julie Perini
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening and Discussion
Capitol Theater, Olympia WA
With Julie Perini
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening
Hollywood Theater, Portland OR
With Jodi Darby, Julie Perini, Joyce Harris, Joann Hardesty
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening
Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale IL
Capitol Theater, Olympia WA
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening and Discussion
Hollywood Theater, Portland OR
With Jodi Darby, Julie Perini, Joyce Harris, Joann Hardesty
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Screening and Discussion
Anarres Infoshop, Portland OR
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR Premiere Screening
Northwest Film Center, Portland OR
With Jodi Darby, Julie Perini
2014
Strange Tales: Matthew Cowan Resource Room Residency Screening and Discussion
Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Arresting Power Presentation
Cascade Media Convergence, Portland Community College, Portland, OR
Collective Documentary Production: Fluid Roles, Skill-building, and Radical &Feminist Aesthetics
What is Documentary? Conference, University of Oregon, Portland, OR
With Jodi Darby, Julie Perini
Engaging in Resistance: Deconstructing the Police State & Prison Nation
Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon
With Jodi Darby, Julie Perini
2013
Safe and Sound? Artists Respond to Police Violence Presentation
Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
With Jodi Darby, Julie Perini
Safe And Sound? Presentation
Research Club, Portland OR
With Jodi Darby, Julie Perini
2012
Relational Film Making Panel, Open Engagement Art and Social Practice Conference
Portland State University, Portland, OR
With Jodi Darby, Julie Perini
Volunteer Experience
1994 - 2021
Broadcaster, Producer
KBOO Community Radio, Portland OR
2021
Arts Education Advocacy Group
Oregon Community Foundation, Portland OR
2020
Tabling
Night out for Safety and Liberation, Portland OR
2017 - 2020
Participant
Snac Block, Portland OR
2017 - 2020
Participant
NXT LVL, Portland OR
2014 - 2020
Board President
Outside the Frame, Portland OR
2012 - 2020
Board member
Oregon Community Media, Salem OR
2017
Event Organizer, Proclamation Co-Writer, Performer
Dead Moon Night. Portland OR
With Pollyanne Birge, Tobias Berbliger, Kyle Huth, Eric Isaacson, Jay Martin, Kate McGuire, Robin Mullins
1998 - 2010
Independent Events Coordinator
Portland OR
1996 – 2000
Clerk, Events Coordinator
Reading Frenzy, Portland OR
Group Exhibitions
2021
History is Now - Museum Without Walls
A collaborative exhibit co-created by Vanport Mosaic and Design As Protest Collective
North Park Blocks, Portland OR
2018
50 Years of KBOO
Oregon Historical Society Exhibit, Portland, OR
2014
PDX -> CHI: Experimental Film & Video from Portland, Oregon
Chicago, IL
2013
First Spark Audio Festival
Dartington College of Arts, Devon, England
2012
Streetopia Exhibition
Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Publications
2021
Jason Traeger Interviews Erin Yanke
Traeger Method Podcast, Portland OR
Enrique Rivera interviews Erin Yanke, Celina Flores, Mic Crenshaw of It Did Happen Here
Multnomah County Library, Portland Or
Eliza Canty-Jones interviews Erin Yanke, China, Mic Crenshaw, Celina Flores of It Did Happen Here
Oregon Historical Society, Portland Or
2020
Distant Voices with Erin Yanke
Willamette Week, Portland, OR
2012
Jodi Darby Interviews Erin Yanke
Tom Tom TV, Portland OR
Awards and Grants
2022
Oregon Heritage Excellence Award Winner
It Did Happen Here Podcast
2021
Regional Arts and Culture Council Project Grant
It Did Happen Here: An Anti Fascist People’s History Book
Institute for Anarchist Studies Project Grant
It Did Happen Here: An Anti Fascist People’s History Book
2020
General Funding Grant Marla Davis Fund
It Did Happen Here Podcast
Regional Arts and Culture Council Project Grant
People’s History of Music
2018
Digital Media Artist in Residence
Grant High School, Portland OR
2015
Precipice Fund / Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR
Regional Arts and Culture Council Project Grant
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR
Best Documentary Award / Alliance for Community Media
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR
John Michaels Award / Big Muddy Film Festival
Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR