meet the team

Artistic & Executive Director, Founder

Coming from Tel Aviv, the daughter of indie filmmakers who made Israel’s first anti-war film, Nili started a filmmaking program for homeless youth in 2009, and made it a stand-alone organization in 2015. Outside the Frame has become a household name for homeless youth empowerment in Portland. It was named Best New Nonprofit in 2018. She is the 2022 recipient of OMPA’s Commitment to Good Award. She has two kids and a wife who is a midwife. Learn why Nili started OTF years ago in this video.

Operations Manager

Erin is a radical documentarian who works in the mediums of audio, print, and video. Her work focuses on themes of the untold story, the unheard voice, comparative experience across identities, and the clean and sharp edit. She is the Executive Director of the podcast It Did Happen Here, which is also a book published by PM Press. She has also produced documentaries on the discovery of the antidote to tear gas, musicians experiences with covid, and is the co-director of the award winning film Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, OR. She is a founding board member of Outside the Frame.

Culture & Programs Manager

Devon is Outside the Frame’s “Den Mom,” managing weekly programming and supporting staff and youth to be radical, creative, and regulated. She cultivates relational emergence at the intersections of consent and accountability practice, anti-ableist embodiment, accessible art, and cultural somatics. Devon is a mentor, facilitator, and student of socially engaged artists, grievers, and mycorrhiza. She’s especially fond of youth, toddlers, pregnant people, teenagers, elders, and plants. In her free time, she hangs with her two daughters and writes poems.

Finance & Admin Director

Vanessa Dominguez has provided bookkeeping, development and data management services to Outside the Frame since 2020. As a teen, she was a member of the "Papers" Youth Crew, helping to produce the documentary film, "Papers: Stories of Undocumented Youth" with Graham Street Productions. Later, she and other "Papers" alums co-founded Momentum Alliance, a youth non-profit where Vanessa served as Youth Director and then as Executive Director. She currently works as a contractor while she and her husband raise her son Nico.

Mentorship & Social Services Liaison

As a houseless youth in PDX, Joey was a program participant with Outside the Frame starting back in 2010 and went on to be one of our first Peer Mentors. In 2018, they left Outside the Frame to work as an Outreach Worker at HomePlate Youth Services for nearly 3 years, and they now work at Outside In as an Alcohol & Drug Specialist. Joey helps to develop and run weekly programming and trains our incoming Peer Mentors. In their off-time, Joey is a self-described “multi-faceted meganerd,” and a fierce, queer advocate for social justice every step of the way!

Peer Mentor

Marcieline is inspired by all her peer mentors in different services, and finds it rewarding. She has a background in photography, painting and writing. Her work has been shown at Blue Sky and P:ear galleries. She currently serves on the board of Outside In. You can see Marcieline’s work here.

Film Career Manager

Maria Moreno is a Venezuelan filmmaker, a PSU School of Film graduate and an Outside the Frame Alumna. She is an instructor for film workshops and manages the Production Assistant Training Program for the Oregon Media Pathways program. She works as a freelance producer & assistant director for clients such as TIME, Sleater Kinney, and Artists Repertory Theater. In her free time, Maria programs film screenings centering Latine stories.

Equipment Room Manager

Makayla was 21 years old and living on Portland’s streets when she signed up for a workshop with Outside the Frame. Eighteen months later, having caught the filmmaking bug, she broke into the film industry; she worked on Hulu’s series Shrill, as a puppet wrangler on a Cartoon Network show, The Shivering Truth and many more. In between she works with Outside the Frame teaching the Production Assistant Bootcamp, weekly workshops and directing and shooting films.

Graphic Design Intern

Vincent (that/it) discovered Outside the Frame in winter of 2022, shortly after becoming homeless at age 21. Since then, it wants nothing more than to be an experimental artist. Vincent frequently creates mixed media pieces, designs characters, plays with sounds and explores 3-dimensional media that all carry a vulnerable discomfort that wishes to be seen. In its current role, that explores concept creation, illustration & doodle parenthood. Find Vincent’s work on Instagram.

Peer Mentor

V’s experience with Outside the Frame began when they became a program participant during 2017. V remained involved with OTF and pursued other creative endeavors through the years. Now, V is passionate about being OTF's newest peer mentor as well as being an instructor of circus arts to ages 4 and above.

Mentor & Cinematographer

Travis is a professional in the film industry working as Director of Photography, Camera Operator and Camera Assistant for the past 7 years. His first mentor in photography is a houseless person. Travis sees that learning is always a two way street and values both learning and teaching with the youth. He has a lust for life and thrives in environments where he can spread this energy and excitement for learning and creativity. Find him at travisjstanton.com.

Mentor, Audio Engineer & Cinematographer

Kai Tillman brings their extensive technical background in film to Outside the Frame in the form of facilitator, mentor and wild idea concoctor. Kai is a trans/genderqueer cinematographer, director and audio engineer. They have been honored to be a selected participant in the Filmando en Cuba workshops with Abbas Kiarostami in 2016 and Werner Herzog in 2017. Their short films have been screened in over 30 film festivals internationally including Locarno Film Festival, Outfest LA, Fringe Film Festival UK and Musée D'art Moderne de Montréal. Check out their work at storytank.com

Organizational Development Consultant

Rebecca Shine is a co-founder of Graham Street Productions and producer of the feature-length documentary films Papers: Stories of Undocumented Youth and 14: Dred Scott, Wong Kim Ark & Vanessa Lopez. She is also one of the co-founders of Momentum Alliance, a youth-led non-profit that emerged from the “Papers” Youth Crew. Rebecca brings her secret passions for finance, database development, systems building and evaluation to support Outside the Frame’s magical work from behind the scenes

Board Member
Behavioral Health Initiative Director for Governor Kotek

Board Treasurer
Former Senior Auditor at Foster & Associates, now owner of Lydia Crumbley, CPA, LLC

Board Secretary
Executive Director of Homeless
Solutions Coalition of Clackamas County

Board Member

Senior Principal Engineer at Intel, Emeritus

Board Member
Contracted service partner for Washington County's Supportive Housing Services

*Advisory Board Member

Development Consultant

*Advisory Board Member

Alumni & Outreach