Sarah is an accomplished senior product management leader with an extensive, tenured career focused on innovative, customer-centric companies like Amazon and Nike. In her current role at Amazon in Portland, she leads diverse product teams and drives large-scale initiatives to build marketplace produ...

William Reischman, Stage Manager for touring band Pink Martini based in Portland, OR. He has been working for the band for 16 years and has visited over 50 countries during that span. Highlights include multiple sold out performances at Carnegie Hall, Hollywood Bowl, Royal Albert Hall, Sydney Opera ...

Briana Harris is an educational consultant living in Brooklyn, New York. Since graduating from University of Oregon, she became a New York City Teaching Fellow and began an almost 20-year career in education and community engagement and empowerment in New York City. Deeply interested in the intersec...

Florence Ramond Jurney is a Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Gettysburg College with over twenty years teaching experience at the undergraduate level. Her research centers on Caribbean literature, particularly francophone women authors that were the focus of her first two manuscripts. ...

Shelby is a game and film director, with 20+ years of experience in games, and 30+ titles shipped.  She has held a variety of game development roles that blend her technical, creative, and business skills: gameplay programmer, Executive Producer, Director of Product, Game Director, and COO. She...

Gabriel is a seasoned global media and entertainment executive. Fluent in Chinese and Japanese, Gabriel accumulated years of experience in business and legal affairs before moving to the content and creative side. His experience includes content development and production, business development, and ...

Nate Bucholz, Vice President of Advertising Partnerships at Cardlytics. After graduation at U of O Nate became a Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine, supporting business development. He went on to earn his MBA from UC Berkeley and spent 11 years at Google in advertising sales roles; 6 of those years we...

Takuya Kuronuma, a group manager at Digital Transformation Div. HQ at NSK Ltd, is currently leading global supply chain transformation initiatives after being a global supply chain manager and ASEAN & India regional supply chain manager (based in Singapore) at the 3rd largest bearings manufactur...

Anthony Clark is the Edward B. Lindaman Endowed Chair at Whitworth University, the Distinguished Combe Trust Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, and an elected Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society. He has studied languages and cultural history at Minzu Univers...

Emily Alberty Johnson is the principal of park21 design, a full service Interior Design Studio. She is an award-winning interior designer specializing in renovations. After her career in Corporate Management was cut short due to an injury from an auto accident, she decided to go back to school to pu...