Raahi Reddy

PRINcipal and pacific northwest director

Raahi@EstolanoAdvisors.com

Raahi Reddy is a Principal and directs Pacific Northwest Operations. Her portfolio includes helping community, labor and governmental stakeholders strategically align to deliver equitable outcomes through community benefit agreements and workforce strategies on large-scale public sector and green infrastructure projects.

Prior to joining Estolano Advisors, Raahi served as the Director of Metro’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Department. Her team was responsible for ensuring Metro’s programs, investments and internal practices lead with a racial equity lens to effectively advance equity in the region. This work included launching and leading the groundbreaking Construction Careers Pathways Project, bringing together numerous public agencies, private contractors and community and labor stakeholders in the Portland metro region to jointly plan, invest and support a new generation of diverse workers in the construction sector.

Raahi has also spent over twenty years in the labor movement working directly with low-wage workers, especially women of color in healthcare and service sectors. She has served as faculty at the UCLA, UC Berkeley, and University of Oregon’s Labor Centers, working on labor and economy issues and co-authored several articles and reports on the experiences of low wage working Oregonians, including "The High Cost of Low Wages in Oregon” and “Oregon’s Care Economy: The Case for Public Care Investment.” Raahi holds a Masters of Urban Planning from UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and History from Rutgers University.