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 Representatives

  • Aneesh Aneesh, Professor of Global Studies and Sociology; Executive Director, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
  • 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
  • Claire Herbert, Associate Professor of Sociology
  • Audrey Lucero, Associate Professor of Critical and Sociocultural Studies in Education, College of Education; IRES, Latinx, CLLAS
  • Gerard Sandoval, Professor, School of Planning, Public Policy and Management
  • Regina Lawrence, Professor and Edwin L. Artzt Dean of the School of Journalism and Communication
  • Suzanne Rowe, Professor Emerita, School of Law

Community Representatives

  • Nadia Dahab, Attorney and Founder, Sugerman Dahab
  • Oregon State Senator James I. Manning
  • Chief 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

  • Penny Gross (voting) and Jan Mueller (in-person meetings), Wayne Morse Historical Park Corporation Board Co-chairs
  • Bishop Peter Eaton, Morse family liaison

WMC Staff

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