Oregon Office

 

Sandra Nelson Miller - Executive Director
Sandra joined ASIA in April 2004. She brings more than five years experience directing nonprofit organizations, more than six years experience operating her own international consulting company in the Russian Far East and four years as assistant administrator for the Intercultural Communication Institute. She has led many groups to and from Russia, as well as tours to Norway and Sweden. Her areas of expertise include budget and finance, human resources management and marketing and fundraising.

She has volunteered for other nonprofit organizations and has served on six boards over the years. Currently she serves on the Board of Directors for the Scandinavian Heritage Foundation. She loves to folk dance, explore cultural diversity and read while her four cats settle in around her. She and her husband Gary live in the "semi-country" and enjoy frequent visits with their son, Ian.

 

Fei Yang - Senior Program Coordinator
Fei was born and raised in Changsha City, Hunan Province, China. In 1996, following her training at a Singapore business school, she moved to the United States. She received her bachelor’s degree from Portland State University in 2002. Fei once worked as a tour guide in China, where she helped adoptive parents from Canada and the U.S. complete their adoption process.

Fei with Valentina at the White Swan Hotel

Fei started her Chinese class in early 2004 to help families prepare for their adoption trip to China. Fei is also an active speaker for local Families with Children from China (FCC) waiting families. She continues to serve families and children from China. In her free time, Fei enjoys working out, cooking and making crafts.



Jojo Zhou - Program Coordinator
JoJo was born in Guangzhou, China and came to Portland in 2000 to study at Portland State University. In 2004 she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Finance. She learned about ASIA from Ying Lin and became very interested in ASIA’s mission and the contribution it makes to find families for Chinese orphans. She is excited to be working with ASIA because of a shared vision. Her son was born in January 2004, and she understands the joy and passion of having a child at home and the love and change a child brings to a family. Her goal at ASIA is to successfully contribute to helping families who want to adopt childen.

 

Marci Siegel-Kittrell - Director Social Services
Marci grew up in the Bay Area of California. She moved to Oregon when she began college and fell in love with the clean, green state. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Lewis & Clark College and her Masters in Social Work from Portland State University. Marci has a background in child welfare and adoptions, having experience with the State of Oregon Department of Human Services, as well as the State of Washington and Plan Loving Adoptions. She also grew up with two adopted siblings. She has been working for ASIA since October of 2001. Marci has always wanted to work in international adoptions and working for ASIA has been a "dream come true." She thoroughly enjoys helping unite children from China with loving families in the United States. She enjoys witnessing how quickly and successfully the children adapt to their new lives. Since working at ASIA, Marci has had the opportunity to go to China three times with ASIA groups. She loved her first experience in Guangxi Province and jumped at the opportunity to go to Hunan Province in April of 2002 and October of 2003. She feels a special connection with China since she began working in Chinese adoptions.

Marci and her husband hope to adopt from China someday. Marci enjoys traveling, scuba diving and vaulting (in photo) in her spare time.

 

Toni Flitcraft - Office Coordinator
Toni grew up in Portland and attended college at Oregon State University in Corvallis. While earning her Bachelor’s of Arts in Liberal Studies with a minor in Business Administration, Toni studied abroad in London, England. After she graduated from OSU, she left for Canberra, Australia where she worked for the Australian-American Fulbright Commission. In 2006, she returned from a year and a half long Eastern Asian tour where she taught English to children living in Seoul, South Korea. While in Seoul, Toni volunteered at a local orphanage which is how she became interested in international adoption.

Toni joined the ASIA team in August 2006. She is excited to be back in Portland and working for such a great organization and cause. Toni enjoys traveling, reading, and running in her spare time.

Chrissy Snyder - Outreach & Communications Specialist

Chrissy joined ASIA in June of this year. She is a native of Chicago. Prior to moving to Portland, she lived in Denver for 15 years, where she was vice president of public relations at Janus Funds/Janus Capital, for a decade. Her background consists of over 23 years of public relations, advertising and marketing/communications experience, stemming from her degree in journalism from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.

Her passion to work in the field of foreign adoption came from the 1995 adoption of her daughter from a Russian orphanage. Subsequently in 1998, she joined the Russian Orphan Opportunity Fund, www.roofnet.org, an organization which helps educate Russian Orphans and teach them English, becoming treasurer, president and then a board of directors member.

Chrissy spends her spare time with her daughter. She has traveled extensively, enjoys reading, her cat, working out and collects Persian art.

She is very excited to join ASIA because she remains a steadfast supporter of international adoptions.

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