Eliot Feenstra (he/they)

Project Manager

Eliot Feenstra is a long-time community organizer, facilitator, performer, teacher, poet, and gardener. He grew up in Pittsburgh, PA and currently lives and works in rural southwestern Oregon. During COVID, he worked with the Rogue Action Center to develop the LGBTQ+ Listening Project, a community organizing hub for rural LGBTQ+ folks in Josephine & Jackson counties.

As a facilitator, he trains people to lead reflective dialogues with Oregon Humanities. He is the co-artistic director of Beyond Boom & Bust, an incubator for community-based arts projects that use theatre to explore economic and social issues in rural southwestern Oregon. He is also the co-chair of the Governance Committee for the Queer Data Design Project, an emergent statewide research project with LGBTQIA2S+ community in Oregon.

Eliot holds an MA in Performance Studies from York University; he also studied social practice at Portland State University and has a BA in interdisciplinary studies from the University of Chicago. He lives on an old commune in Takilma, OR with his wife, Sophie, and cat, Antigonick.