Project & Product Staff

Our Team

Our talented team members, and a lot of teamwork, make it all happen at Influents Innovations.

Our Research Scientists have decades of experience and translate their deep knowledge into ideas for life-changing products. Our Product Engineers, Instructional Specialists, Media Team and Design Team take those ideas and make them reality. Our Business Development Team gets the products to our customers. And our Administrative Staff keeps the ship afloat!

Project & Product Staff

Keir Armstrong

Software Engineer

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Expertise & Professional Interests
  • Software development
  • Web/mobile development
  • Cloud computing

Stephanie Butler

Research Assistant

Naomi (Noni) Canavan

Data Manager

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Expertise & Professional Interests
  • Databased design
  • Data management
  • Survey development

Katie Clawson

Grants Administration

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Expertise & Professional Interests
  • Interventions to reduce stress and promote health
  • Mind-body intervention across the lifespan
  • Curriculum design, development, training & evaluation
  • Development of observational, mixed methods and quantitative assessment strategies

Holly Chedester

Research Assistant

Natasha Compton

Research Assistant

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Expertise & Professional Interests
  • Culturally resonant evidence based programs
  • Culturally responsive research practices
  • Language & literacy acquisition
  • Evidence based curriculum development aimed at ease of implementation
  • Spanish-English translation

Sierra Freihoefer

Software Engineer

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Expertise & Professional Interests
  • Website development
  • Software engineering
  • Graphic design
  • UX/UI design
  • 3D modeling

Jeff Gau

Data Analyst & Methodologist

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Expertise & Professional Interests
  • Longitudinal modeling
  • Randomized & cluster randomized trials
  • R programming

Victoria Gelatt

Project Manager

Rebecca Guralnick

Research Assistant

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Expertise & Professional Interests
  • Software engineering
  • Mobile & web development
  • UX/UI design
  • Data analysis

Kristina Hulegaard

Research Assistant

Erika James

Research Assistant & Project Manager

Rebecca Larsen

Research Assistant

Alex Leong

 Software Engineer & Web Coder

Annette Leong

Project & Account Manager

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Expertise & Professional Interests
  • Oral health education and dental health
  • Parenting education
  • Media development

Ms. Leong is a senior consultant for The Oregon Community Foundation (OCF) and Research Assistant for Influents Innovations and The Oregon Research Institute. For the past six years she has been lead consultant for the Children’s Dental Health Initiative at OCF and has served as an Oral Health Educator for the parenting education program delivered by the Oregon Parenting Education Collaborative (OPEC). Ms. Leong serves as media developer and oral health coach and educator for the NIH Phase 1 grant, BeReady2Smile.

Craig Leve

Data Analyst

Mia Lineweaver

Research Assistant

Jessica Liu

Research Assistant

Alex Marquez

Media Producer

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Expertise & Professional Interests
  • Video and multimedia production
  • Cinematography
  • Content development and script writing

Alex has been working in video, film and multimedia production since 2004. He has extensive experience in the entire production process, from content development and writing, to on-set directing and cinematography, to editing and post-production.

Jessie Marquez

Senior Program Designer & Developer

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Expertise & Professional Interests
  • Community engagement
  • Developing multimedia & technology to deliver evidence-based interventions
  • Writing, producing & directing for English and Spanish language audiences

Jessie uses her background in language and the arts to help translate evidence-based interventions into meaningful learning experiences. Her goal is to increase access to behavioral interventions that improve health outcomes.

Cathy Milchak

Research Assistant & Project Manager

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Expertise & Professional Interests
  • Developing & applying coding systems for qualitative observational data
  • Certified ©Play and Learning Strategies coach – Children’s Learning Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
  • Data collection supervisor in preschools through high schools

    Aleah Montano

    Project Manager

    Carolyn Montoya

    Research Assistant

    Alexia Perez

    Research Assistant

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    Expertise & Professional Interests
    • Video and multimedia production
    • Cinematography
    • Content development and script writing

    Alex has been working in video, film and multimedia production since 2004. He has extensive experience in the entire production process, from content development and writing, to on-set directing and cinematography, to editing and post-production.

    Missy Peterson

    Data Analyst

    Wendy de la Caridad Torres Romero

    Software Engineer

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    Expertise & Professional Interests
    • Web Developer 
    • Javascript
    • NodeJS
    • Vue 3
    • Quasar
    • Ionic
    • GIS

      Douglas Rice

      UX/UI Designer and Video Editor

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      Expertise & Professional Interests
      • Digital design
      • Video Production
      • Music Production
      • Copyediting

        Aimee Shelton

        Visual Designer

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        Expertise & Professional Interests
        • Illustration
        • Photography
        • Graphic design
        • Web design
        • Clothing design & construction

          Milagra Storm Tyler

          Project & Account Manager

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          Expertise & Professional Interests
          • Masters of arts in teaching
          • Behavioral change interventions
          • Information architecture

            Mary Susan Weldon, PH.D.

            Brand Management & Design

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            Expertise & Professional Interests
            • Information Graphics, Charts & Graphs
            • Marketing and Promotional Collateral
            • Cognitive Psychology

            I combine my training in visual design and cognitive psychology to create communications that integrate conceptual depth and visual appeal. My experience as a research scientist ensures that scientific integrity is retained in visual representations that support effective and accessible communication across diverse communities.

            Aeryne Wright

            Software Engineer