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We are pleased to announce the addition of Lina Garcia Seabold to our esteemed EngAGE Northwest Board of Directors. You can see the entire list of dedicated members here.

Lina Garcia Seabold is former owner/partner of Cornell Estates Living Center; Rosewood Park Retirement and Assisted Living Center; Rosewood Specialty Care, and Washington Gardens Memory Care, along with several other Senior Retirement facilities in Arizona and Utah through Garcia Seabold Investments, LLC. Lina, along with her husband Steve, were Founding Owners of Seabold Construction Co. Inc., since 1984, but are now both retired from that company. In 2018, their son, Alex, opened GSI Builders and both Lina and Steve are currently assisting him and working on various construction projects throughout the Portland-metro area. 

Lina served as Chair of the Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC), a 25-Member Board with the City of Portland. RACC is the leading arts services agency for the Portland metropolitan area, including Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington Counties. Under her leadership, RACC conducted advocacy campaigning for an “arts tax,” which led to voter approval. An aggressive effort was also launched towards equity and inclusion in the arts, which continues to be pursued and monitored. Lina sits on the Advisory Board for Teatro Milagro/Miracle Theater in Portland and continues to be a patron of the arts. Milagro is the only bilingual theater production company in Portland.

Prior to RACC, Lina was head of MANA de Portland, a National Latina Women’s organization.  Past professional experience includes working on the Eastside and Westside Light rail project(s) with Tri-Met as well as serving a stint in the Governor’s Office under Governor Neil Goldschmidt creating and developing the Office of Minority, Women, and Emerging Small Business. Past affiliations include the annual El Poder de la Mujer Conference, Portland-Guadalajara Sister City Association (producing a record-breaking Cinco de Mayo event on the Portland Waterfront), the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Governor Kitzhaber’s Trade Mission to Mexico 2001, Oregon Health Care Association, and the Alzheimer’s Association of Oregon.

Of her many accomplishments, one of note includes having facilitated a significant art exchange between the Sister Cities of Portland and Guadalajara in 2003 resulting in a bronze and steel sculpture piece done by Mexican Sculptor and Artist Alejandro Colunga. This sculpture, called “MAGO HERMANO /Brother Wizard,” is permanently housed in the lobby of the Antoinette Hatfield Hall, Portland Center for the Performing Arts (PCPA).

Lina received her Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Oregon in 1974. The Garcia family, originally from South Texas, was one of twelve Latino families who migrated and settled in Washington County, spurring the birth of several Latino organizations such as Virginia Garcia Health Clinic (est. 1975) and Centro Cultural. Lina’s father, Jose D. Garcia, was a Founding Member of the Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center, a non-profit organization that provides health care in Washington and Yamhill Counties. VGMC operates five dental clinics, one women’s clinic as well as six school-based Health Centers. In 2016, Virginia Garcia Clinic had revenues of $60 million and served 45,000 patients in 62 different languages. Lina currently serves as Vice President for the Foundation Board for the Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center. Most recently, Lina has joined the Board for the Hispanic Women’s Corporation (HWC) in Arizona. HWC organizes and sponsors an annual conference attended by approximately 5,000 Latinas.

Lina is an active artist focusing primarily on watercolors and multi-media collage. She remains committed to Pilates and staying healthy. She loves to travel and explore towns, villages, old colonial haciendas and world heritage sites throughout Mexico and España. Lina enjoys nature and the Oregon coast, and loves to spend time outdoors with her family, especially with her three grandsons, Cameron, Elliott, and Mateo.