Steve Fulmer - Morning keynote, 8:30 a.m., Willamette River Room

Steven Fulmer is a human strategist, published author, speaker and life coach. He helps individuals and organizations honor, understand and capitalize on human potential by overcoming obstacles and fears to achieve success and happiness. A dynamic and entertaining speaker, Steven helps people identify and harness their ideas and find form and direction for moving forward. His first entrepreneurial adventure was at the age of 16. By age 35, Steven was vice president of a $10 million software company. His academic degree is in political science and U.S.-Soviet relations, and he is a graduate of The Coaches Training Institute. Steven is the co-author of Speaking of Success alongside such notable thinkers as Jack Canfield, Stephen Covey and Ken Blanchard.
 
Info@empowermentgroupworld.com

Steve Fulmer - Morning workshop, 9:45 a.m., Willamette River Room

Making Diversity Your Business Part II

Johnny Lake - Afternoon keynote, 12:30 p.m., Willamette River Room

Johnny Lake is an educator and trainer in schools and communities with programs focused on leadership, personal and organizational change, communication, diversity, community building, cultural competency and other topics.
 
Johnny assists traditional institutions in developing methods and strategies to bring about productive relationships in the larger community. He also provides direction, information and motivational tools to help parents and families understand their effect and potential in their children's education. Johnny helps young people find their place in society with positive participation in their schools and communities through the use of historical references, active role-playing, and various media. He works with government and business to enhance client and customer service and develop skills to promote and manage efficient and productive change in the areas of gender, race, socio-economics, disability and other issues of diversity. He facilities the identification and development of skills and resources to help people better meet the demands of a changing society.
 
Johnny has a bachelor's degree in history from Willamette University as well as a masters in educational leadership and administration. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in educational leadership and leads teacher preparation, counselor and administrator classes at three universities. He has served as assistant principal at middle and high schools and is currently an administrator on special assignment with the superintendent in the Eugene 4J School District. Johnny is a former chairman of the State of Oregon Commission on Black Affairs.
 
Positiveimages07@gmail.com

Johnny Lake/John Lenssen, 1:45 p.m. and 3:30 p.m., Willamette River Room

John Lenssen is a consultant working with governmental agencies and school districts on issues of cultural competency and leadership. He is currently an adjunct faculty member at the University of Oregon and Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. He formerly led the Access and Equity Team at the Oregon Department of Education. Prior to that, he served as an administrator in the Educational Opportunities Program at Oregon State University and the Office of Minority Affairs at the University of Washington.
 
In his consulting he provides training, training of trainers, organizational assessment, coaching, and mediation services. He addresses a broad range of diversity issues in education, health, social services and customer service. John works through his own company, John Lenssen and Associates, and collaborates with Stir Fry Seminars (Berkeley), Education and Training Consultants, Inc. (Oregon), and Workplace Solutions (New York).
 
lenssenj@mindspring.com

Caroline Cruz and Annette Chastain, 1:45 p.m. and 3:30 p.m., Santiam 5

American Indians: A Focus on Federal Policies and the Nine Federally Recognized Tribes of Oregon 1:45 p.m.
 
The Circle of Understanding Northwest Indians, 3:30 p.m.

Caroline Cruz has 30-plus years' experience working in the total continuum of care with alcohol, tobacco and other drugs (ATOD) and related fields. She has experience in community prevention, community mobilization, treatment, training, curriculum development, grant writing, administration and consultant work.
 
Caroline is the current general manager for human services for her Tribe, overseeing the following programs: Child Protective Services, Community Counseling Center, Community Wellness Center, Community Health and Education Team, Senior Services, Vocational Rehabilitation and Social Services.
 
As a national trainer, Caroline has trained with Developmental Research & Development, Channing Bete, Native American Center for Excellence (NACE) and various Tribal, government and state agencies. Her consultant firm is Eagle Cruz Consultants. Caroline is an enrolled member with the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Oregon.
 
caroline.cruz@wstribes.org
 
Annette Chastain formed Chastain & Associates in 2003. As a minority-owned sole proprietor, she contracts with various agencies in Oregon to create and organize trainings. She also creates manuals for therapy groups and various games that help teach concepts. Among her vast training experiences, she has provided training for trainers on the importance of research in the fidelity of evidence-based programs and in the use of research materials.
 
She has many years of experience co-training with her mother, Caroline Cruz. As a direct descendent of a tribal member, Annette shares her life experiences when appropriate and uses these experiences in creating trainings.
 
acchastain@msn.com

Joe Cantrell and assistants, 1:45 p.m. and 3:30 p.m., Board Room

Joe Cantrell carries the name of a Cherokee grandfather who died on the Trail of Tears, the Cherokee removal from the Southeastern United States to Indian Territory, now Oklahoma.
 
He volunteered for Vietnam as a naval officer and served two tours, one on a destroyer along the coast and another as a diving and salvage officer in the Mekong River Delta, including the Cambodia invasion. He stayed in Southeast Asia following Vietnam to use his skills as a photojournalist to try to put right some of what he considered wrongs perpetrated by misinformed foreign policy. Joe moved to Portland in 1986.
 
He has photographed and written for an extremely wide range of publications, from the Sultan of Brunei to United Press International; The New York Times to books on fractals and chaos theory.
 
Among his happiest accomplishments are journalistic assignments that really did help people. These include being an active member of the Daimler Trucks (aka Freightliner) Diversity Initiative; assembling the first super computer to run more than a trillion operations/second, which helped the United States shift from underground nuclear testing to virtual testing; being at the +/- 33 gallon mark of platelets donated to the Red Cross; and raising his daughter, Danielle, as a single dad from her age of 3 to her present age of 20.
 
Agiyo@cnnw.net

Tim McNichol, 1:45 p.m. and 3:30 p.m., Croisan Creek A

Tim McNichol is a partner of White Men as Full Diversity Partners® (WMFDP). He brings more than 15 years' experience as an organizational development consultant and coach helping organizations and leaders improve their effectiveness. His systems approach helps clients not only change behavior, but the underlying thinking patterns and organizational structures that drive the behavior.
 
Tim has found the complex and often emotional issues related to diversity to be an ideal crucible for developing the leadership skills needed to succeed in today's changing global business environment. Many leaders lack the awareness and skills to effectively work with the cultural dynamics that can limit their employees' initiative, productivity and innovation. As leaders transform their thinking and actions in this arena, they can more effectively tap into and use the diverse perspectives that their organizations need to survive and thrive in a competitive global market.
 
Tim is energized by the challenges and rewards inherent in helping people develop their inter-cultural competence. As a heterosexual white man, he is continuing his own learning journey related to this leading-edge work and is excited about the progress he and clients have made in developing rich and productive partnerships across what initially seemed like insurmountable differences.
 
Tim received his masters in whole systems design and organization development from Antioch University with an emphasis on collaborative learning and systems thinking. He taught for four years in the Master of Business Administration Program at Portland State University. Tim is also a founding partner of FourOaks Consulting, an organization development firm based in Portland, Ore.
 
mcnichol@wmfdp.com

Liang Ho, 1:45 p.m. and 3:30 p.m., Santiam 2

Communicating Across Cultures, Your Key to Success!, 1:45 p.m.
 
Team Building Across Cultures, 3:30 p.m. (Management Track)

Liang Ho has been offering lectures and workshops for more than 25 years to help people of diverse cultures and socio-economic backgrounds more effectively work together. Her dynamic cross-cultural swinging model was developed while researching and working with many Asian and Pacific Islanders in Hawaii, followed by broad exposure to the large number of immigrants, refugees and visitors from Eastern Europe, Africa, Mexico and Central and South America while based in Chicago. Liang holds a bachelor's degree in political science and master of arts in urban policy and administration, and published Cross-Cultural Swinging: A Handbook for Self-Awareness and Multi-Cultural Living!
 
gnailus@yahoo.com

Joel Henderson, 9:45 a.m., Croisan Creek A

Joel Henderson grew up in California, but has since moved permanently to Salem, Ore., where he is now a card-carrying, cum laude graduate of Willamette University and pays his rent by working as the outreach and training administrative program coordinator for Talking Book and Braille Services in the Oregon State Library, where he is also involved in the cultural competency and wellness committees. He is a qualified Gen-Y speaker because a) he is one himself, and b) he has read the introductory chapter to Bruce Tulgan's Not Everyone Gets a Trophy. In his off time Joel likes long walks on the beach (with his amazing wife and kid), candlelit dinners (also with his wife), and sour blue raspberry soda bottle candies (not with his wife). Every day Joel wears shorts to work, but has promised to dress nice for this workshop if it will earn him a gold star.

Linda Wiener, 1:45 p.m. and 3:30 p.m., Croisan Creek B

Linda Wiener has been involved with aging and work force issues for 20 years; she has been with AARP for 15 years. Linda is now in her 11th year as the age issues expert for Monster.com. Her Adapting to an Aging Workforce™ workshops offer cutting-edge tools and techniques to businesses and organizations for managing the emerging 21st century global aging work force.
 
Some of her accomplishments include:

• Age boom consultant, Customized and Workplace Training, Portland Community College;
• Keynote address, 2007 Ohio Governor's Conference on Aging, Ohio's Aging Workforce, Is Your Business Prepared?;
• Consultant to The Conference Board Gray Skies, Silver Lining report;
• Member, Experts' Panel, the Indiana Gray Matters project;
• Consultant to and instrumental in the development of the Oregon Gray Matters report;
• Member, Multnomah County Taskforce on Vital Aging.

Nationally recognized as an aging and workforce consultant, Linda is a popular speaker and is regularly called on by the press with interviews published in the AARP Bulletin, AgingWell, New York Times, U.S. World & News Report, Wall Street Journal, Bottom Line Retirement, HR Executive magazine, and The Oregonian.
 
www.WeTrainandConsult.com/

Jayne Downing, 9:45 a.m., Santiam 2

Jayne Downing has been working with victims and survivors of domestic and sexual violence for more than 19 years. She has been the executive director of Mid-Valley Women's Crisis Service since 1997. During her time with the Crisis Service, Jayne has trained more than 25,000 people to deal with domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking in Oregon and around the Northwest. Jayne has served on numerous local and statewide task forces and committees, including the Governor's Task Forces on Domestic Violence and Elder Abuse, the Attorney General's Sexual Assault Task Force and Batterer Intervention Standards Advisory Board, the Marion County and DHS Domestic Violence Councils. Over the years Jayne has received numerous awards including the Governor's Outstanding Victim Advocacy Award, DHS Saving Lives Award, Midori Hamilton Award, Vern Miller Key Citizen Award, and Athena Award Leadership Award.
 
jayne@mvwcs.com

John Bischof , M.D., and Mike Hlebechuk, 3:30 p.m., Santiam 6

Dr. John Bischof was educated and trained at Oregon Health & Science University and Columbia University for work in clinical and administrative psychiatry. He has dedicated his career to creating recovery services for persons in public mental health and addictions programs. He is the former medical director of Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare where he was part of a major cultural relations education and service organization initiative for the agency. From November 2006 until May 2008, he served as chief psychiatrist of the Oregon State Hospital. He is currently associate medical director for public sector with OptumHealth Behavioral Solutions.
 
jktbmd@comcast.net
 
Mike Hlebechuk has been involved in mental health consumer/survivor advocacy for 22 years. From 2002 through 2005, he coordinated the activities of the FY 2001 Real Choice Systems Change Grant awarded to the Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS). He is a past director of Oregon's Office of Consumer Technical Assistance, a consumer-run program that provided training, technical assistance and financial support to Oregon's consumer-directed organizations and initiatives. In 1987, Michael was elected the first president of the board of Mind Empowered, Inc., Oregon's first publicly funded consumer-run mental health agency. Michael is currently working within the Oregon DHS Addictions and Mental Health Division to create increased residential options for individuals currently in the state hospital system.

Dave Dahl, 9:45 a.m., Board Room

Dave Dahl the son of a baker and health foods pioneer James Dahl, rejected the family business at a young age and instead turned to a life of drugs and violence that led to multiple arrests and four stints in prison. However, during his last stretch inside, Dave decided to turn his life around. He rejoined the family business - NatureBake - and with his older brother, Glenn, founded his own brand of organic, whole grain bread. Today the company, which started selling at the Saturday Farmers' Market at Portland State University, provides 12 varieties of bread to customers throughout the western United States. Located in Milwaukie, Ore., Dave's Killer Bread is dedicated to baking the highest-quality, best-tasting organic bread. Each loaf is packed with whole grains, seeds and/or nuts amounting to bread that is both healthy and delicious. Dave's breads contain no animal products, artificial preservatives or sweeteners, or genetically modified organisms. In the words of Dave, a tireless worker dedicated to staying on the right path after so many years in prison: "It is our mission to make the world a better place - not only by making great bread, but by telling our story of redemption to anyone who will listen. We do not compromise quality for the sake of cutting costs, and we believe you will taste the difference that makes."
 
www.daveskillerbread.com

Rebecca Sweetland, 3:30 p.m., Croisan Creek C

Rebecca A. Sweetland, MSW, JD, has worked in various capacities in the diversity and cultural competency field for approximately 25 years. Her background includes cross-cultural mediation and conflict resolution, certifying minority and women business enterprises, managing statewide affirmative action and diversity programs, and conducting numerous workshops on cultural competency and workplace diversity. Most recently, Rebecca chaired the DHS Subcommittee on Welcoming Environment, which produced tools for state employees to use in making their workplace as welcoming as possible.
 
rebecca.sweetland@state.or.us

Sherri L. Rita, J.D., 9:45 a.m., Santiam 3

Sherri Rita is the Northwest ADA Center's lead training coordinator and consultant serving the Portland, Salem and Vancouver area. She is a former disability civil rights attorney, licensed in both Oregon and California. She began her career at Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund in Berkeley, Cal., and later joined California's Protection & Advocacy agency (now Disability Rights California) where she was a staff and later associate managing attorney specializing in the ADA, special education, community integration, and the rights of individuals with psychiatric disabilities. Most recently, she served as the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation's statewide policy analyst and rules coordinator. As a trainer and consultant, she is thrilled to now be able to share her diverse knowledge of laws and systems serving individuals with disabilities.
 
opportunityaccess@gmail.com

Tyler Shumaker, 9:45 a.m., Santiam 5

Tyler Shumaker joined the Oregon Employment Department Learning and Development Team in October 2007. He attended Western Oregon University as a theater major. Tyler's background includes many years of working in retail as a manager and owning a small business. His areas of strength include communication, leadership development, generational diversity and customer service.

Perry Gruber, 9:45 a.m. and 1:45 p.m., Santiam 6

Diversity Leadership: The Razor's Edge, 9:45 a.m.
 
Set the Stage for High-Performing Workplaces: Let your People Lead. 1:45 p.m. (Management Track)

Perry Gruber is an award-winning speaker, entrepreneur and servant leader. Perry's dynamic, inspiring, engaging and informative speeches and presentations relate to consciousness, leadership, technology and how these three combine to create new possibilities for business and people working in diverse workplaces. Perry's path includes 25 years serving major public and private sector organizations. As a Marine Corps combat correspondent for nine years, he served his country in a number of places, including the Far East. Earning his honorable discharge in 1991, Perry took a position at the Bonneville Power Administration where he served for nine years. In the last four of those years, he served the agency as its chief media spokesperson. Intel Corporation recruited Perry in 2000 to serve as Intel Oregon community relations manager. Four years later Perry took the position of program and communications manager for Intel's global Community Solutions program, a CSR program in which Intel uses its technology to make the world a better place. Perry became one of Intel's first CSR bloggers, blogging for the company on a wide range of CSR topics. Perry left Intel Corporation to start his own social venture so that he could more authentically communicate his inspiring messages. Today, in addition to his speaking activities, Perry is co-founder and CEO of NedWater LLC, a socially responsible company that works with nonprofits to make the world a better place.
 
Perry holds a bachelor of arts degree in management and organizational leadership as well as an MBA from George Fox University.

Cris Land, 1:45 p.m., Pringle Creek

Cris Land has more than 25 years of experience as an advocate and educator on GLBT issues, with an emphasis on transgender identities. He's worked as a senior manager and senior research associate in government and health care, and is a past board chair for Basic Rights Oregon. In his spare time he works in management consulting and coaching.
 
crispdx@yahoo.com

Jenn Burleton, 9:45 a.m., Croisan Creek C

Jenn Burleton is an outspoken advocate on behalf of transgender and gender nonconforming children and youth. Jenn has played a primary role in raising local and national awareness of the challenges these children and their families face. She is a respected expert, visionary and leading thinker and presenter on gender expression.
 
In addition to her work with TransActive, Jenn serves on the board of the Oregon Safe Schools & Communities Coalition and is a member of the National GLBTQ Online High School Advisory Board. She also works as a member of the Basic Rights Oregon Trans Healthcare Workgroup.
 
An inspiring, humorous and motivational speaker and educator, Jenn will provide information that will add to your knowledge of how transgender identify develops, is experienced and expressed by children and youth starting as young as age 4.
 
She is a 2008 recipient of the Ingersoll Center Founder's Award and was named one of 90 Women Standing Up for Equality by the national Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
 
jenn@transactiveonline.org

Miguel Valenciano, 1:45 p.m. and 3:30 p.m., Santiam 1

Miguel Valenciano has 17 years of experience consulting, facilitating, training and coaching. He has managed large international, national, state and private sector contracts and projects, and has extensive experience with leadership development, cultural competency, workplace diversity, cultural audits and workforce development.
 
Miguel is recognized in the United States and internationally for his extensive work in corporate training and has been a featured speaker at many local, state, national and international conferences. He has conducted approximately 2,000 training programs for more than 100,000 persons. He is a dynamic and energetic speaker/facilitator/trainer; his vision, energy, and creativity contribute to his success in leading diverse teams, facilitating and implementing strategic plans for organizations, and providing outstanding coaching, training and consultation. Miguel brings both practical experience and a dynamic presence to his work as a master trainer.
 
Miguel has developed and facilitated modules in several content areas, including cultural competency, cultural audits, diversity as a business imperative, cross-cultural communications, empowerment, strategic planning, team building, conflict resolution, supervisory skills, change process and inclusive leadership. He also conducts training of trainers programs at the national and international levels.
 
Miguel is bilingual in English and Spanish, and is versed in Italian.
 
Mvalenciano2@aol.com

Joyce Harris, 9:45 a.m., Croisan Creek B

Joyce Braden Harris is the director of the Region X Equity Assistance Center located in the Equity Program at Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory in Portland, Ore. The center is funded through a grant from the U.S. Department of Education to provide training and technical assistance to K-12 public schools in the areas of race, gender and national origin equity. Through the EAC grant, the program serves educators in Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, American Samoa, Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of Palau, Federated States of Micronesia (Chuuk, Yap, Kosrae, Pohnpei) and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
 
Joyce has worked extensively on effective and equitable practices for all students from pre K-through college. Her background includes teaching math and science; multicultural curriculum development; developing curriculum and materials on African American history and culture; effective parent and community involvement strategies; and professional development. She conducts training on the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol model, cultural competency, harassment, crisis response management, Playtime is Science and Systems Change. She also helps districts comply with federal anti-discrimination laws. She has conducted trainings on effective mentoring practices and taught science to middle school students in an Oregon Museum for Science and Industry community-based program.
 
She currently serves on the Oregon Department of Education Superintendent's Professional Educator's Advisory Team, the Oregon Teacher Standards and Practices Commission (TSPC) Licensure Assessment Bias Review Committee, and the TSPC Program Approval Team for institutions of higher education.
 
She has a bachelor of arts degree in American Studies from Reed College; a bachelor of science in elementary education from Oregon State University; and a master of science degree from Portland State University in educational administration. Joyce is currently completing her doctorate at Oregon State University.
 
harrisj@nwrel.org

David Cardona, M.D., 9:45 a.m., Pringle Creek

Dr. David Cardona is the coordinator of the Health Care Interpreting Program in the Department of Human Services Office of Multicultural Health and Services where he oversees implementation of the health care interpreters' law. He holds a medical degree from the Autonomous University of Santa Ana, El Salvador, and a master of public health from Portland State University.
 
David has executive management education in developing countries' health programs from Harvard University's School of Public Health. His educational background includes coursework in training of trainers for health care interpreting professionals from the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California. He has served on the faculty at Oregon Health & Science University for 18 years. Currently, he is an adjunct instructor in the Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, where he teaches medical Spanish classes to scholars. He also is a staff member of OHSU's Center for Diversity and Multicultural Affairs.
 
As program coordinator, David is responsible for coordinating and implementing the Health Care Interpreter (HCI) Program. The HCI Program coordinator convenes multiple state agencies, government jurisdictions, community organizations and private sector businesses to advance Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to improve access to services for persons with limited English proficiency (LEP). The HCI Program coordinator develops technical assistance, data collection, evaluation and compliance systems. He also develops training, testing and certification policies and procedures.
 
david.cardona@state.or.us

Kimberly Jensen, 9:45 a.m., Santiam 4

Kimberly Jensen received her Ph.D. in women's and U.S. history from the University of Iowa in 1992 and is professor of history and gender studies at Western Oregon University. She is the author of Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008) and coeditor, with Erika Kuhlman, of Women and Transnational Activism in Historical Perspective (Leiden: Republic of Letters, 2010). In fall 2009 she published Revolutions in the Machinery: Oregon Women and Citizenship in Sesquicentennial Perspective for the Oregon Historical Quarterly sesquicentennial of statehood series, upon which this workshop will be based. She is at work on a biography of Oregon suffragist and public health activist Esther Pohl Lovejoy, M.D. (1869-1967). Jensen serves on the Oregon Heritage Commission, the editorial advisory board for the Oregon Historical Quarterly and the editorial board of the Oregon Encyclopedia.
 
jenseki@wou.edu

Robin Rose, 9:45 a.m., Santiam 1

Robin Rose is a renowned trainer, speaker and consultant with more than 25 years' experience. With a background in counseling and education, she translates the latest developments in brain-based research into practical, learnable skills. Robin's expertise is in teaching people how to stay calm, professional and effective, especially during high stress, high-pressure situations. She delivers information, training and tools that help you understand how your brain works, how to think clearly, and how to communicate effectively. People leave her trainings with new skills and renewed energy.
 
Robin has an uncommon ability to make it safe for individuals and groups to learn new ways to work together, build trust and move forward. She holds a masters degree in counseling psychology from Lewis & Clark College. After 15 years as a college faculty member, she formed her own company and moved into the public, government agency, nonprofit and business sectors. Robin is an accomplished consultant, trainer and keynote speaker. She recently authored Shifting Gears: A Brain-Based Approach to Engaging Your Best Self.
 
robin@robinrose.com

Oregon Advocacy Commission Panel - Lianni Reeves, Carlos Richard, Jose Ibarra and Susan Castner - 1:45 p.m., Santiam 4

Lianni Reeves specializes in employment defense and has litigated cases in state and federal courts. As an assistant attorney general, she defends state, state agencies and employees against employment and civil rights claims brought in state and federal courts. She previously served as a staff attorney for the National Crime Victim Law Institute (NCVLI), a national nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting, advancing and enforcing crime victims' rights. She promotes awareness of civil and human rights issues. Lianni currently serves as president of the Korean American Citizens League, chair of the Commission on Asian Affairs and a member of the Oregon Judicial Department's Access to Justice for All Committee. Liani has served as the co-chair of the Oregon Minority Lawyers Association since 2002.
 
Commission website: www.oregon.gov/OCAA/
 
Carlos Jermaine Richard  is a member of the Oregon Commission on Black Affairs. He has been employed by the Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) for the past 12 years as a caseworker and currently serves in management with DHS. He is the founder and CEO of Unity Consulting & Training (UCT). Carlos has served as a member of the DHS Diversity Development Coordinating Council for six years and was appointed as an advisory member of the DHS Equal Employment Opportunity Commission/Affirmative Action Committee to evaluate and make recommendations for hiring practices within DHS. Carlos also served on the board of directors for the Reaching, Empowering All People (REAP, Inc.) program and currently advises and consults with REAP on a variety of initiatives. Carlos has also served as a chaplain with the Oregon Department of Corrections and Multnomah County and continues to provide chaplaincy and faith-based consultation services to various community organizations. Carlos holds a bachelor of science degree from Portland State University and a master of arts degree from Warner Pacific College.
 
Commission website: www.oregon.gov/OCBA/
 
Jose Ibarra is an active community organizer and civic leader. He has served on the Oregon Commission on Hispanic Affairs since 2002 and was re-elected as chair effective June 1, 2010. Jose was recently reappointed by Governor Ted Kulongoski to serve another three-year term on the commission.
 
Commission website: www.oregon.gov/Hispanic/
 
Sue Castner is chair of the Oregon Commission for Women. She is a political activist with years of experience working with elected officials from across the country including President Bill Clinton, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Senator Ron Wyden and a myriad of others. Sue's diverse background includes handling international media on events such as the first U.S. Environmental Film Festival and the World Cycling Championships; surrogate scheduling for a Super Bowl and a presidential debate; and communications, advertising and marketing for commercial real estate properties. Sue currently serves on the board of Emerge Oregon, a dynamic organization training Democratic women to run for public office. Sue is also working on organizing the Oregon Women Suffrage Centennial Celebration that will take place throughout 2012. She has long been an advocate for a wide variety of women's issues, once making law as a plaintiff in a Title VII sex discrimination case.
 
Commission website: www.oregon.gov/Women/

Albert Moreno and Sukhsimranjit Singh (facilitators), 1:45 p.m. and 3:30 p.m., Santiam 3

(1:30 p.m. facilitator: Alberto Moreno. Countries represented: Mexico, Iran and Ethiopia.)
 
(3:30 p.m. facilitator: Sukhsimranjit Singh. Countries represented: India, Vietnam, England.)
 
Alberto Moreno is the migrant health coordinator for the Department of Human Services Office of Health Systems Planning. His role is to seed new migrant health centers throughout Oregon. To date, Alberto has been instrumental in starting three new centers in Oregon with more than $3.9 million leveraged on behalf of migrant and seasonal farmworkers.
 
Alberto began his career in migrant health when he founded a community/migrant health center in Southwest Washington and later became the health services director with Sea-Mar Clinics. He has also worked on various initiatives including development work to start a human rights commission, and he continues to work to secure prenatal care access for unqualified immigrant women in Oregon. Alberto also drafted and brokered a bi-national health accord between Mexico and Oregon. Additionally, he is a founding member and the chair of the Oregon Latino Health Coalition, board member of both United Way and Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) and co-chair of the Latina Maternal and Child Health Taskforce and president of the Oregon State Hispanic Employees Network. Previous to arriving in Oregon, Alberto helped develop a cultural and linguistic model of care for Latino children entering the foster care system in Illinois. He has also worked as a bilingual, bicultural child and family therapist for more than 12 years. Alberto is also a board member of Oregon Farm Workers Ministries and CAUSA of Oregon.
 
A native of Durango, Mexico, Alberto is bilingual and bicultural. He received his bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his MSW from the University of Illinois-Jane Adams.
 
Alberto.Moreno@state.or.us
 
Sukhsimranjit "Sukh" Singh obtained his bachelor of arts and bachelor of laws with honors degrees from the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research, University of Law, Hyderabad, which is one of India's premiere law schools. He continued his studies with a fellowship at the University of Missouri-Columbia, where he earned his master of laws degree in dispute resolution. While in law school, Singh clerked with Chief Justice R.C. Lahoti and Justice G.S. Singhvi, both of the Supreme Court of India. During completion of his master's degree, Singh served as legal research associate on a cross-disciplinary project with the UMC School of Medicine. He also served as a senior member of the UMC Peer Mediations Services where he co-mediated peer disputes and lectured on mediation to cross-disciplinary students.
 
Following graduation, Singh worked with Sheila Purcell, director of the Multi-Option ADR Project of the Superior Court of California, and observed court-referred mediations at JAMS and the Juvenile Justice Department. He recently completed a post-graduate fellowship in dispute resolution at the Dispute Resolution Institute at Hamline University School of Law.
 
Singh has taught ADR courses at law schools in Spain, France and India and has presented papers at law conferences in several countries. While working as an attorney in the northeastern states of Punjab and Haryana in India, Singh worked with P.P. Rao, former president of the India Supreme Court Bar Association and a highly regarded Indian constitutional lawyer. Singh finished his schooling at Punjab.
 
Singh joined the Willamette Center for Dispute Resolution as its first associate director in fall 2008. He currently teaches negotiation, advanced negotiation and mediation theory and advocacy.

Richard Atkinson, M.D., 3:30 p.m., Santiam 4

Dr. Richard L. Atkinson trained in endocrinology-metabolism and has been on the faculty of multiple medical schools. He currently is emeritus professor of medicine and nutritional sciences at the University of Wisconsin, Madison; clinical professor of pathology at Virginia Commonwealth University; visiting professor of molecular medicine at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; and director of the Obetech Obesity Research Center in Richmond, Va. He is also president of Obetech, LLC; editor of the International Journal of Obesity; regional vice-president of The Obesity Society; and past president of the American Obesity Association, the North American Association for the Study of Obesity, and the American Society for Clinical Nutrition. NAASO and The Obesity Society established the annual Richard Atkinson-Judith Stern Public Service Award in 2006 to honor his service to the field of obesity. He has been a consultant to the NIH, FDA, USDA, National Academy of Sciences, Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, Federal Trade Commission and numerous companies and foundations. His interests are research, obesity policy and young investigator programs. Recently, his research has focused on virus-induced obesity; he and colleagues have demonstrated that human adenovirus (Ad-36) produces obesity in animals and is associated with obesity in humans. He has published more than 175 manuscripts and more than 200 abstracts in the medical literature.
 
Ratkinson2@vcu.edu

Frank Miles, 1:45 p.m., Croisan Creek C

Frank Miles was inspired early by his Cuban mother, respectively Chinese and Pacific Islander aunts, tales of his Crow and Blackfeet ancestry, and the global travels of two professorial grandfathers. Frank always had an interest in travel, multiculturalism and anthropology. He received his bachelor of arts degree from the University of Oregon and, during his studies at U of O, pursued volunteer work in community development, cross-cultural mediation and diversity. His grandfather's work in sociology and social work, and his father's career with the Department of Human Services (DHS) spurred Frank to join DHS in 1998 where he served over the years in various positions including case manager and program analyst.
 
In 2006 Frank sold his house, quit his job and - with a vow to return! - left for the United Kingdom to study cultural anthropology. In 2007 he graduated with his master of arts degree from Cardiff University and married a British national. From early 2008 to July of 2009 Frank worked as a project and events manager in the Academic Office of Glyndwr University, Wales, before returning to both Oregon and the Department of Human Services.
 
Frank is now serving as a DHS operations manager in Lane County and is a member of the Statewide Diversity Conference Planning Committee.

Sokhom Tauch, 3:30 p.m., Pringle Creek

Sokhom Tauch is a former refugee from Cambodia who resettled in Portland, Oregon. His departure from Cambodia that year was a daring adventure. He arrived in Pennsylvania in 1975 and in Portland in July 1975. He was among the first few Cambodians to arrive in Portland. Just like other Southeast Asian refugees, he faced many difficulties in the beginning of his new life in Portland due to lack of agencies assisting refugees at that time. Sokhom has been involved in refugee communities in Portland since 1975 and started working for the Indochinese Cultural and Service Center in August 1977, where he has been the executive director for the last 14 years. With more than 30 years of work serving refugees, Sokhom has witnessed the trauma after the war, especially for Cambodians. He also has been assisting the Khmer Health Advocates in Hartford, Conn., in establishing a Cambodian Trauma Project to address the long-term effects of the Khmer Rouge on Cambodian refugees in America.
 
Sokhom has an MBA from Marylhurst University, Oregon.