Claire Oliveros , a second generation Filipina born and raised in Portland has spent over a decade, providing leadership and direction for programs and services for Filipinos, Filipino Americans, and students of color in education as the coordinator of the Multicultural Center at Portland Community College. Since 1997, Claire has led community and campus efforts to link theory and practice through leadership development, political education, and organizing among youth, students, and allies to address systems of oppression and work for social change.

In 2005, Claire returned from an international human rights fact-finding mission in Hacienda Luisita, Philippines organized by BAYAN USA, the only international chapter of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN-Philippines), and formed the Portland Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines to raise awareness of the worsening human rights violations, and mobilize support for the international campaign to “Stop the Killings in the Philippines.” Claire also helped to establish the Asian Pacific American (APA) Compass Radio Collective, the only APA News and Public Affairs show in the Pacific Northwest on KBOO 90.7 FM Community Radio.

As the first in her family to attend college, Claire received her Bachelor's of Arts in Speech Communication from Western Oregon University, a Masters of Science in Education from Portland State University, and recently advanced to candidacy for the PhD in Education with specialization in Community College Leadership at Oregon State University. In 2007, she was recognized as one of the 100 Most Influential Filipinas in the U.S. at the Filipina Women’s Summit in Washington D.C.