Advisory Board

Co-Chairs
Gordon Lafer, Director, University of Oregon Labor Education and Research Center
Jennifer Reynolds, Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, University of Oregon School of Law

University of Oregon Faculty
Yvette Alex-Assensoh, Political Science and Vice President for Equity and Inclusion
Bruce Blonigen, Philip H. Knight Professor of Social Science and Edward Maletis Dean, Lundquist College of Business
Charise Cheney, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies and Black Studies
Scott Coltrane, Sociology, emeritus
Greg Dotson, School of Law
Maria Fernanda Escallón, Anthropology
Alison Gash, Political Science
Claire Herbert, Sociology
Audrey Lucero, College of Education


Community Representatives
Nadia Dahab, Sugerman Law Office
Representative Val Hoyle (Dan Whelan, staff)
Oregon State Senator James I. Manning
U.S. District Court Judge Michael McShane
Senator Jeff Merkley (Sophia Roberts, staff)
Rebecca Tweed, President, Tweed Strategies
Jessica Giannettino Villatoro, Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries, Deputy Commissioner
Senator Ron Wyden (Molly McCarthy and Lisa Rockower, staff)

Ex-officio
Johnny Earl, Wayne Morse Historical Park Board
Bishop Peter Eaton, Morse family liaison

WMC Staff
Rebecca Dinwoodie, Codirector
Ellen Herman, Codirector and Professor of History
Dan Tichenor, Senior Scholar and Philip H. Knight Chair of Political Science