Our Mission
Long View Action, a 501 c-4 organization and home to the Rural Strong Network is rooted in trust and connection. We build community power to achieve a reflective democracy, a people-centered and serving government, and homegrown prosperity for all. Through civic engagement, leadership development, local media revitalization, strategic electoral initiatives, policy accountability, and innovative tools that transcend partisanship and elevate shared values we spark locally led durable change.
Our Team
Teresa Purcell Founder/CEO
Born and currently based in Longview, Washington, Teresa lives in the house where she grew up out in the woods. For over 35 years, Teresa Purcell has been unafraid to take on what others deem impossible. Renowned for amplifying rural and BIPOC voices, Teresa pioneered the use of data analytics in vote-by-mail programs, voter engagement modeling, and list enhancement. She has designed, led and contributed to over 230 candidate campaigns and major communications and educational initiatives for environmental, labor, healthcare, economic justice, and reproductive justice organizations, raising over $30 million and working in 38 states.
Teresa is a sought-after keynote speaker, facilitator, and expert communicator. She is a respected news and radio contributor. She hosted Building Bridges on conservative talk radio for four years and is currently rural affairs editor for Pacifica Radio’s We Decide: America at the Crossroads with Jenna Flanagan.
She is committed to leading, learning and growing dynamic teams of people – as co-workers, consultants, partners, allies, investors and clients. An innovator in strategy, communications, mobilization, advocacy, evaluation, and resource development. Teresa’s unique perspective is shaped by her broad network of contacts at the local, state, and federal level and enhances her ability to advise non-profits, foundations, unions, donors, press, colleagues, candidates, state parties, caucuses and county parties across the country.
In 1992, she led U.S. Senator Patty Murray’s first campaign, helping elect Washington State’s first female U.S. senator. Teresa has continued to be a visionary strategist and communicator. In 2022, she served as Senior Advisor for Rural Engagement at the DNC and as a volunteer advisor to Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’s Congressional campaign. Committed to mentorship, she has trained and coached hundreds of women candidates and nonprofit leaders.
In 2007, Teresa returned to her rural hometown, where her family has lived since the 1940s. Shocked by its decline, she ran for State Legislature in 2016, losing by just 559 votes out of 57,000 cast in a Trump-wave election in Southwest Washington.
She has committed her career to building grassroots power-building across race, class, gender and geographies to drive durable progress on critical issues.
Hector Hinojosa
Mr. Hinojosa is a member of the Long View Action Board of Directors. He is a community leader and prominent professional who has led and advised nonprofit organizations for over 20 years. Mr. Hinojosa has been deeply involved in Clark County organizations and helped to found numerous nonprofits and civic organizations – including SW WA LULAC Council (League of United Latin-American Citizens), and the Vancouver Metro LULAC Council in 2024, the second council in Clark County. Mr. Hinojosa also serves as WA State LULAC Director for the Elderly.
In addition to these impactful organizations, Mr. Hinojosa also founded Stone Soup Community Meal, and in collaboration with other community advocates, founded the Community Roots Collaborative (“C-Roots”), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with the mission of building low barrier cottage home neighborhoods for the unhoused. To date, C-Roots has successfully built 28 homes, and has refurbished a 4-bedroom home and a group home with 14 bedrooms.
Mr. Hinojosa was also Chair of Slow Foods Southwest Washington and was a Board Director with the Columbia River Mental Health Foundation, and a Board Member of Vancouver Farmers’ Market. Most recently, he joined the Board of Mount Saint Helen’s Institute and is the current Chair of the Board of Directors.
In recognition for his positive impact in the community, Mr. Hinojosa was the recipient of the distinguished Ryan Woods Community Award, given by the Ryan Woods Grassroots Community – a nonprofit organization that supports local communities through various grassroots initiatives. He also received Citizen of the Year awards from the Clark County Association of Realtors (2024) and Washington Realtor (2024).
Corie Dow-Kramer
Ms. Dow-Kramer is also a member of the Long View Action Board of Directors. She grew up in Longview, WA. Currently, she is the Executive Director of Youth and Family Link based in Longview, WA. Youth and Family Link is dedicated to promoting positive changes in the lives of children and families by connecting them with resources aimed at achieving success in education and personal development. Previously, she was the Executive Director at Washington State CASA and also held positions at Cowlitz County CASA and Safe Babies Safe Moms, Children’s Home of Jefferson County, New York. Her passion is supporting youth and families, and she loves supporting the residents of Cowlitz County. Ms. Dow-Kramer has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Washington and a Master of Arts from Antioch University-Seattle.
Cindy Lopez Werth
Ms. Lopez Werth is also a member of the Long View Action Board of Directors. She was born in Toppenish, Washington in the Yakima Valley. The oldest of six children, she grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, before returning to the Pacific Northwest to pursue a career in newspaper journalism in 1987 in Albany, Oregon. In 1990, Ms. Lopez Werth started working for The Daily News in Longview, Washington covering local government. She started volunteering for the Ethnic Community Services Center in 1991, joining the Board not long after. Today, she is the Ethnic Support Council’s Board President and International Festival coordinator and member of the Lower Columbia School Gardens Board.
Ms. Lopez Werth’s reporting turned to the police beat, which included court coverage on occasion. In February 1994, she earned the distinguished honor of becoming Longview Police Department’s first woman Police Officer. Currently, she works in the evidence office after 32 years of service. One of her proudest accomplishments was helping a prior Police Chief establish multicultural advisory panels to represent Asian, Black, Latino, Native American and LGBTQ communities – although unfortunately, the advisory panels are no longer active.
In both her journalism and law enforcement careers, she has strived to give all community members a voice. Over the years, she has served on anti-drug coalitions and volunteered with dedication to helping underserved populations – including refugees and immigrants.