Advisory Board

Co-Chairs

  • Gordon Lafer, Professor; Director, University of Oregon Labor Education and Research Center
  • Stuart Chinn, Frank Nash Professor of Law, University of Oregon School of Law

University of Oregon Faculty

  • Yvette Alex-Assensoh, Professor of Political Science; Vice President for Equity and Inclusion
  • Bruce Blonigen, Philip H. Knight Professor of Social Science; Edward Maletis Dean, Lundquist College of Business
  • Anita Chari, Associate Professor of Political Science; Clark Honors College
  • Scott Coltrane, Professor of Sociology, emeritus
  • Maria Fernanda Escallón, Associate Professor of Anthropology
  • Claire Herbert, Associate Professor of Sociology
  • Audrey Lucero, Associate Professor of Critical and Sociocultural Studies in Education, College of Education; IRES, Latinx, CLLAS
  • Suzanne Rowe, James L. and llene R. Hershner Professor of Law and Director, Legal Research and Writing Program, School of Law
  • Gerard Sandoval, Professor, School of Planning, Public Policy and Management

Community Representatives

  • Nadia Dahab, Shareholder, Sugerman Law Office
  • U.S. Representative Val Hoyle (Dan Whelan, Deputy Chief of Staff/District Director)
  • Oregon State Senator James I. Manning
  • U.S. District Court Judge Michael McShane
  • Senator Jeff Merkley (Sophia Francia, Field Representative)
  • Rebecca Tweed, President, Tweed Strategies, LLC
  • Jessica Giannettino Villatoro, Deputy Labor Commissioner, Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries
  • Senator Ron Wyden (Molly McCarthy, Field Representative)

Ex-officio

  • TBD, Wayne Morse Historical Park Board
  • Bishop Peter Eaton, Morse family liaison

WMC Staff

  • Rebecca Dinwoodie, Co-Director
  • Dan Tichenor, Co-Director and Philip H. Knight Chair of Social Science