Irakoze Diane was born in Nundu, Democratic Republic of Congo, in 1995. Shortly after her birth, her family fled to a refugee camp in Kigoma, Tanzania. In 2007, her family received refugee status in the United States, and they settled in Milwaukie, Oregon. She studied public health at Portland State University.

Divine Irambona was born to Burundian parents in the Kanembwa refugee camp in Tanzania in 1995. Her mother died a few days after Irambona's birth. After a decade, her family was approved for asylum in the United States and they were resettled in Beaverton, Oregon. She attended Western Oregon University, where she founded the African Students and Friends Association and served as president of the International Student Club. She continued her education while experiencing life-threatening health problems, and she graduated from WOU in 2018 with a degree in sociology. She worked as a peer support specialist at Northwest Human Services and volunteered with refugees in Salem, Oregon.

Elston Longmoor Ireland was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1900. He moved to Oregon with his family in 1910 and attended high school in Pasadena, California. He attended the University of Oregon. In 1931, he and Mary C. Peattie were married; they later had two children. He was a restaurateur affiliated with a total of 14 restaurants in Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, over the course of his career, including Ireland's Restaurant in Portland. He died in 1986.

David Irving worked with Glenn Jackson at Pacific Power and Light Company, now known as PacifiCorp, in the 1950s and 1960s.

Sidney Wertheimer Isaacs was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1888. Isaacs worked as an usher at the Cordray Theater and at the Baker Theater. In 1914, he and Agnes L. Phillips were married. He managed the Portland Public Auditorium, now known as the Keller Auditorium, for much of the period between approximately 1917 and 1960. He died in 1968.

Francis James "Frank" Ivancie was born in Marble, Minnesota, in 1924. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps. In 1948, he earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of Minnesota. He became a teacher and principal in Burns and Portland, Oregon. In 1950, he and Eileen Louise O'Toole were married; they later had ten children. In 1953, he taught at a school on a U.S. Air Force base in England, then moved with his family to Portland, where he continued to work as a teacher. He served as executive assistant to Portland Mayor Terry Schrunk, then served on the Portland City Council beginning in 1966. In 1980, he became mayor, serving one term. He was later appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the Federal Maritime Commission. After he retired, he moved to California. Ivancie died in 2019.

Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Ivancie in his interview; "Frank Ivancie, Last Conservative Mayor of Portland, Dies at 94," by Gordon Friedman, The Oregonian, May 2, 2019.

George Iwasaki was born in Sumner, Washington, in 1912. His parents had immigrated to the United States from Shiga Prefecture, Japan, and his family became farmers in the Hillsboro, Oregon, area. In 1942, he and Tomiko Natsuhara were married; they later had five children. Also in 1942, the Iwasaki family was among Japanese Americans ordered to the Portland Assembly Center by the U.S. government. The government gave them the option to work as farm labor, and they spent much of World War II working fields near Nyssa, Oregon. After the war, they were able to recover their farm in Hillsboro. In the 1960s, the farm rebranded as Iwasaki Bros. and became one of the leading bedding plant producers in Oregon. George Iwasaki died in 2009.

Manuel Torres Izquierdo was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1925. In 1941, he studied art in Marseilles, France. During World War II, his parents sent him and his two brothers to the United States via the United States Committee for the Care of European Children. In 1942, Manuel T. Izquierdo arrived in Portland, Oregon. In 1951, he graduated from the Museum Art School, now known as the Pacific Northwest College of Art. He taught at the Museum Art School until his retirement in 1997. As an artist, he specialized in welded metal sculptures and woodcuts. His work was exhibited in Oregon, Washington, and California, and he created sculptures for 27 public and corporate commissions. In 1991, he received the Oregon Governor's Arts Award.

Izquierdo married Lois Alice Baker in 1956. They had four children, and divorced in 1969. Manuel Izquierdo died in 2009.

Sources: "Manuel Izquierdo," by Roger Hull, Oregon Encyclopedia (accessed August 2023), https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/izquierdo_manuel_1925_2009_/; vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Izquierdo in his interview.