About

Trina Stout (she/they) is a communications strategist and storyteller for social good. She crafts and implements strategies to help clients change minds, policies, and behavior. What really animates her is changing narratives and culture too.

Trina’s life work is to be a part of the transition from systems of domination and oppression to systems of collaboration and care. She believes we can build a world where everyone belongs and everyone’s needs are met. Where all people enjoy lives free from violence. Where we live in right relationship with the land. She knows that getting there will require reshaping the public imagination—massive shifts in the stories at the heart of our cultures.

She looks to the wisdom of Gloria Anzaldúa: "Empowerment comes from ideas—our revolution is fought with concepts, not with guns, and it is fueled by vision. By focusing on what we want to happen we change the present. The healing images and narratives we imagine will eventually materialize."

During her career, Trina has provided communications services for academic institutions, coalitions, foundations, government agencies, nonprofits, and policy/advocacy organizations. Seasoned at a full-service communications agency in Washington, DC, she feels grateful to call Southern Oregon home again. She grew up on and now lives again on stolen land traditionally stewarded by the Shasta, Takelma, and Latgawa people.

In her free time, Trina can be found walking her dog, gardening, cooking, making pottery, or camping.

Trina holds a M.A. in Public Communication from American University, and a B.A. in Economics from Pomona College.

Trina Stout Strategies has been certified as a Women Business Enterprise (WBE) and an Emerging Small Business (ESB) by the Oregon Certification Office for Business Inclusion and Diversity (COBID).

Select clients include:

  • BROKE

  • Building Belonging

  • Center for Women's Leadership, Portland State University

  • City of Portland

  • Friends of the Children

  • Hawai'i Alcohol Policy Alliance

  • INTERSECT

  • Movement Law Lab

  • MRG Foundation (now Seeding Justice)

  • NoVo Foundation

  • Oregon Community Foundation

  • Oregon Employment Department

  • Oregon Health Authority

  • Oregon Housing and Community Services

  • Oregon Native American Chamber

  • Oregon Recovers

  • Rural Organizing Project

  • U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  • UN Foundation (Family Planning 2020)

  • Washington State Department of Health

  • Women's Foundation of Oregon

  • Women’s Funding Network

  • Youth Investment, Engagement, and Leadership Development (YIELD) Project

Work

As a consultant, most of Trina’s work is on behalf of clients and not publicly available. But in her free time, Trina volunteers for the Northwest Abortion Access Fund, formerly known as The CAIR Project. She's used her communications skills to advance NWAAF's mission of funding abortion and breaking down barriers to abortion access for people in the Northwest, and is proud to share the following work samples:

Op-ed: The Seattle Times, Time to restore abortion funding, helping low-income women
Op-ed: Rewire, 1,000 miles and too many barriers to count: One woman’s abortion trip
Media appearance: Melissa Harris-Perry, MSNBC, The impact of abortion funds
Refreshed mission/vision/values: nwaafund.org/about