Sarina K. Roher, RN

Sarina Roher has worked over 20 years as a nurse. A lifelong resident of the Pacific Northwest, she was raised in Tacoma, Wash., and has lived in Oregon since 1993. She currently serves as president of the Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals, AFT Local 5017, and secretary-treasurer of the Oregon AFL-CIO. She has been a shop steward and chair of the Professional Bargaining Unit for Kaiser, where she emphasized addressing inequities and inequalities facing her members and winning historic racial justice language. 

She has firsthand experience fighting bosses on the shop floor and developing member leaders’ skills and strategy to help them build and strengthen their unions. She founded and served as chair of OFNHP’s Social Justice Committee. 

Roher enjoys spending time with her family (including her first grandchild), fishing, motorcycles, glamping, working on her yard, going to the beach and, of course, causing good trouble.