About Us

Gloria Geiser has a BA in Biology from Baruch College, where she also studied journalism. While working as a cytotechnologist in New York, Seattle, and Portland, she worked on her novel, Servant of Mary. Through her experience in critique groups, she found she had a facility for editing, and has taken courses, attended workshops, and seminiars to hone her skills. 

Gloria is also Managing Director of the County Democrat Reader (offiial regional publication of the Democratic Party) where she has been writing and helping other writers produced CDR's trademark political essay pieces since 2018. 

She is one of the founding principals for the Weekly Town Hall podcast, and in her spare time is a karateka, running a Shotokan Karate club and teaching when needed. She also is a member of a Mardi Gras Krewe in her native Portland, Oregon, co-hosting and organizing their Annual Mardi Gras Ball and arade. 

Gloria has been involved politics since high school, when she campaigned for Senator Wayne Morse, who changed affiliation from Republican to Democratic Party after being one of two Senators to oppose the official start of the Viet Nam War.  

Angela Carhart studied Communications with a focus on media at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. She worked in software development and publishing, ran a small goat farm, and was a figure skating judge. She is now Copy Editor and staff writer for County Democrat Reader, in addition to the labor of love that is Weekly Town Hall Podcast. 

Together with her oldest daughter, Tamar, she has deeply enjoyed the process of coming together with the Weekly Town Hall founders’ team to create and deliver more than just information, but practical, hopeful solutions to current issues.

In her spare time she is a voracious reader, enjoys walking, hiking, dancing, is a huge music fan, cat fanatic, loves learning and discussing new ideas and information. Mindless TV relaxation: Old school Fantasy Island.

Tamar Carhart is a sixth-generation Oregonian with a wickedly inquisitive mind and sense of humor. Being diagnosed as autistic at age 13 helped her feel like FINALLY it all makes sense! Leading through her teen years, she was passionate about choir, musical theater, improv, hiking, camping, cats, horse rescue, naturalism, and more. After she developed first fibromyalgia at 15, then lupus at 18, she’s had to reconfigure what life looks like for her now that severe, chronic pain is part of daily life. 

Tamar brings passionate and sometimes encyclopedic knowledge to the Weekly Town Hall team, and has a knack for asking extremely insightful questions that get people excited. She also loves watching for ideas for show guests and/or topics, and found one of our very first guests, William Simpson, II.

Tamar enjoys music, especially Oingo Boingo and Rachmaninov, reading, gaming, running Dungeons & Dragons now and then, and is teaching herself about tarot. She loves to learn, and still has a very soft spot for cats.

Donna Marshall-Segura works with clients to develop communications strategies that challenge conventional thinking and weave consumer insights and intelligence with a humanizing touch to create award-winning campaigns and put her clients in the center of conversation. The military serves as her ‘secondary’ family, therefore she is always happy to help the many military affiliations in need of PR assist.

Donna's OleanderPR client roster includes brands ranging from actors, producers, film productions, hip hop artists, groups, to wine & liquor, tech and corporate industries. Donna is known for her powerful #PRwins and collaborative mindset of the many connections OleanderPR works with, unwilling to settle for the status quo. 

OleanderPR has expanded to meet the needs of its growing roster of consumer, talented,  corporate, and non-profit clients by utilizing its depth of experience and innovative approach enabling it to provide strategic counsel and program execution across a wide range of areas, including:  Public relations, media relations, marketing communications, corporate branding, and reputation management.

Donna prides herself on developing lasting relationships with her clients so that she plays an integral role in helping them achieve current and planned (future) goals, contributing to the long-term success of their business. In short, Donna's OleanderPR will help define the business objective and set the table for success. It could be a publicity campaign, press, or simply cultivating mutually beneficial relationships.

As well as posessing a thorough knowledge of the US media landscape, Donna has particular expertise in managing complex, multi-stakeholder, global campaigns and integrating PR with clients’ marketing and digital teams to ensure projects can generate cross-platform buzz in today’s fast-paced entertainment business.  

Whatever your needs are, we will work with and for you, your needs goals, and ongoing success.

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Demetrios Deligiorgis has spent his entire life with at least one toe in politics.  He began working for the venerable Senator Mark Hatfield (R-OR) going door-to-door at age six, became a co-chair of a successful tax base increase measure that netted over $100 million for his native Portland Public Schools at age 15, worked with the Obama Administration White House Communications Office (Organizing For America) to help pass the American Care Act.  

He currently is an elected Pricinct Committee Person in his home district, a Platform Delegate for the Democratic Party of Oregon (2021-2023), Editor-in-Chief and Co-founder of County Democrat Reader (official regional publication of the Democratic Party), and official Organizer for the Democratic National Committee.  

Demetrios is a huge animal lover, and also writes.