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Bill Bradbury
In early 2011 Bill Bradbury was appointed by Governor Kulongoski to the NW Power and Conservation Council, a four-state compact to oversee regional energy and Columbia River salmon. Prior to this position, Bill served as Oregon’s Secretary of State and appointed chair of the Oregon Sustainability Board. Bill also served as Executive Director for For The Sake Of The Salmon, a 3-state coalition dedicated to finding common ground for salmon restoration.

Bill was one of the first 50 participants in Vice President Al Gore’s Climate Change training sessions and has given more than 200 Climate Change in Oregon presentations. Born in Chicago, Bill has lived in Oregon since 1971, first settling in Bandon where he owned and operated a small business. He then served 14 years in Oregon’s Legislature as a State Representative from 1981 to 1985 and as a State Senator from 1985 to 1995.

He was Senate Majority Leader from 1986 to 1993 and Senate President from 1993 to 1995. Bill lives in Salem with his wife, Katy.

Laura Stevens
Laura Stevens, Organizing Representative for the Sierra Club Beyond Coal campaign in Oregon and Southwest Washington, works with concerned citizens to stop coal export projects and towards a coal-free northwest.  

Laura, a native Oregonian, obtained her B.A. from DePauw University, and has spent the past four years organizing for a number of environmental, human rights, and labor groups.  

After Laura launched and led the Sierra Club Campuses Beyond Coal campaign at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, UNC made a commitment to move their on-campus coal-fired power plant off of mountain-top removal mined coal immediately, and set a date to move the plant off of coal entirely. 

For more information on how you can help stop coal exports in Oregon, contact Laura at laura.stevens@sierraclub.org or visit www.coalfreeoregon.org. 

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Dr. Michael Grady
Dr. Michael Grady is the Medical Director for the McClaine Street Clinic and for the Community Outreach Center, serving the underinsured and uninsured respectively in the Silverton area.
 
Dr. Grady received a B.S. in Biology from the Santa Clara University in 1972 and his M.D. degree from OHSU in 1976. He has been a family physician for 35 years and is a past president of the Oregon Academy of Family Physicians. He currently serves on the Community Leadership Council of We Can Do Better, a forum for discussion of  health and health policy.
 
Dr. Grady and his wife Jenny have four grown children and live in Silverton.

Scott Richards
Scott Richards, Behavioral Health Division Director at the Marion County Health Department.  Scott oversees adult and crisis mental health services for Marion County.
The Health Department serves over 1,000 adults a year in its outpatient mental health programs; another 3,000 individuals receive services each year at the Psychiatric Crisis Center. 
 
Scott is a native Oregonian who obtained his Masters Degree from Lewis and Clark College in 1983.  He has worked with mentally ill adults in both public and nonprofit agencies for the past twenty eight years.  Scott has been involved in a number of initiatives, including affordable housing development and treatment courts, aimed at addressing the many needs of those suffering from serious mental illness.

Levi Herrera-Lopez
Levi Herrera-Lopez is Executive Director of the Mano a Mano Family Center.  He has served in this official capacity since 2008.  Mr. Herrera-Lopez has been involved with this organization since 1997 -- 1997-2005, volunteer youth organizer; 2000-2003, WIA Case Manager; 2003-2005, CAPACES Network Coordinator; 2005-2008, Interim Director.

Other professional experiences include Program Assistant at the Cultural Forum, from 1997-2000, at Chemeketa Community College; and Voter Registration Project Coordinator, summer of 2004, for Voz Hispana. 

Mr. Herrera-Lopez, attended Portland State University, where he majored in Communication Studies, with a dual focus on Media Studies and Intercultural Communication, along with Certificates in Popular Culture Studies and Latin American Studies. He is a native of Zamora de Hidalgo, Michoacan, in Central Mexico, and has lived in Salem, Oregon since 1992.  He attended local schools, including Waldo Middle School and McNary High School, in neighboring Keizer, Oregon.  He was raised in a multicultural, multiracial family in Mexico, and identifies himself as a Mexican, of secular Jewish heritage.  He is a native Spanish (Mexico) speaker, fluent in English, with basic conversational skills in French, and rudimentary knowledge of Japanese and Hebrew. 

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Helena Norberg-Hodge Via SKYPE
Helena Norberg-Hodge is an analyst of the impact of the global economy on cultures and agriculture worldwide, a pioneer of the localisation movement, and the articulator of the core ideas of Counter-development. She is the founder and director of the International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC).[1] Based in the US and UK, with subsidiaries in Sweden, Germany, Australia, and Ladakh, ISEC's mission is to examine the root causes of our social and environmental crises, while promoting more sustainable and equitable patterns of living in both North and South. Its activities include The Ladakh Project[1], a Local Food program and Global to Local Outreach.
Norberg-Hodge was educated in Sweden, Germany, Austria, England and the United States. She specialised in linguistics, including studies at the doctoral level at the University of London and at MIT, with Noam Chomsky. Fluent in seven languages, she has lived in and studied numerous cultures at varying degrees of industrialisation, giving her a unique international perspective.

Kerry Topel
Kerry Topel is the co-founder of Marion-Polk Move To Amend, an organization dedicated to abolishing corporate personhood, is an educator and a recent resident of Salem, Or.  She is passionate about sustainable community development.  She has a master's degree in the Environment and Community program at Humboldt State University where she examined sustainable rural community development through studying community reactions to Nestle Waters North America's failed attempt to site a bottled water facility in McCloud, California.  Kerry is enthusiastic about the power of local economies to enrich and empower community residents to increase their quality of life.  She currently is working to apply her experiences as an educator, activist, and gardener to promote a focus on the local here in Salem. 

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Michael E. Campana
Michael E. ‘Aquadoc’ Campana is 2011 President of the American Water Resources Association (AWRA), Professor of Hydrogeology and Water Resources at Oregon State University, and former Director of its Institute for Water and Watersheds. He held the Albert and Mary Jane Black Chair of Hydrogeology and directed the Water Resources Program at the University of New Mexico, where he is Emeritus Professor. At the Desert Research Institute he was a research hydrologist and taught in the Hydrologic Sciences Program at the University of Nevada-Reno. He has supervised the work of 75 graduate students. His interests include hydrophilanthropy, water resources policy and management, WaSH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) in developing regions, transboundary water resources, and water and environmental education. Central America, Central Asia, and the South Caucasus are his main international interest areas. Campana was a Fulbright Scholar (Belize, 1996) and Visiting Scientist at the Research Institute for Groundwater (Egypt, 1995) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (Vienna, 2002). He has served on seven National Research Council committees, including the Klamath Basin and California Bay-Delta committees. He founded and runs the nonprofit Ann Campana Judge Foundation www.acjfoundation.org, which funds and undertakes WaSH projects in Central America. His degrees include a BS (geology) from the College of William and Mary and MS (hydrology) and PhD (hydrology; mathematics minor) from the University of Arizona. As WaterWired he blogswww.waterwired.org and Tweets http://twitter.com/waterwired on water and related issues.

Olivia Schmidt
Olivia is the Community Organizer for BARK, defenders of Mt. Hood National Forest. Her current work focuses on stopping the Palomar Pipeline, a proposal by NW Natural to clearcut 47 miles through Mt. Hood for a natural gas pipeline that would facilitate natural gas fracking and Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) development. From 2007-2010 Olivia served as Community Organizer for the Northern Oregon faction of the Anti-LNG movement, working with impacted communities and climate activists to stop Liquefied Natural Gas development on the Columbia River and Oregon coast. In recent months LNG proposals in Oregon have transitioned their plans from importing foreign LNG through the Oregon coast to exporting domestic U.S. natural gas to foreign markets and with that change the anti-LNG coalition has shifted its focus to addressing the threats of fracking in the U.S. and the impacts to energy consumers of exporting this resource overseas. Olivia comes to this work from a background in environmental and social justice and has been an Oregon resident for eleven years.

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Dave Gardner Filmmaker

Dave Gardner has worked as a professional director for over 30 years. During his career he’s directed documentaries and other award-winning projects for a long list of Fortune 500 corporate clients and PBS.
 
His concern about our society’s growth addiction began when he noticed rapidly growing population centers in the American West are in denial about the limits of water available to feed their continuing growth frenzy.
Dave’s became the voice of reason in Colorado Springs, a city in the U.S. projected to double in size from half a million in 2000 to 1 million by 2040. As in most cities, growth boosters dominate local politics and policy, so Dave has turned to the film medium to illuminate the follies and educate the public about the true meaning of sustainability. Colorado Springs is serving as just one example in a film of national and global significance.
Dave ran for Colorado Springs city council in 2009 on the platform that true community prosperity could only be achieved by increasing efficiency and localization, not by continuing to chase the mythical “pot of gold at the end of the everlasting growth rainbow.” He lost the race to a well-funded pro-growth incumbent, but garnered 43% of the vote.

Mike Swaim
Mike Swaim is a small business owner, with a Private Law Practice in Salem. He has been a practicing attorney since 1971, receiving his BA in Political Science, his MA in International Relations and his JD (Juris Doctor), all from UCLA. Prior to his college education, he served in the US Air Force from 1962-1965, as a Bulgarian Interpreter in Germany.

Mike is a long time leader and volunteer in our community. Among his many volunteer roles, he has been President and member of Salem City Club; President of Salem Parks and Rec. Advisory Board; Chair and Vice-chair of Salem Downtown Development Board; co-founder and member of the Salem Memorial Peace Lecture; and President and member of the Community Coalition for Diversity.

Mike was elected to the position of Mayor of Salem in 1997 and served until 2002. He has also held the position of Commissioner on the Oregon State Capitol Planning Commission, Salem Representative on the Mid-Valley Counsel of Governments, and Salem Representative on Youth. He has received numerous honors, including “Outstanding Citizen Award”, Justice Wallace “Carson Award” for Extraordinary Service to the Community and “Greater Oregon Local Official of the Year” award.

He has been a long time advocate for “smart planning and intelligent growth” as opposed to mindless urban sprawl. Mike’s “Pro-community” vision includes meaningful design standards, efficient in-fill, and community “benefit analysis”.

Mike lives here in Salem with his wife Kellie. They have two sons, Matthew and Darrin and daughter-in-law Katy.

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Mic Alexander
For over 35 years Mic Alexander has been a servant of justice, with over 100 jury trials and 300 cases at the Court of Appeals and Supreme Court. Alexander is known as one of the most talented lawyers in the Oregon State Bar. A zealous advocate for justice, he has demonstrated tremendous dedication to the Oregon Trial Lawyers Association, the plaintiffs’ bar as a whole and the clients he serves. He has been a partner with the Salem firm Swanson, Lathen, Alexander and McCann since 1980.

Mic Alexander was born in Beaumont, Texas and served in the US Air Force as a Missile Launch Officer in the early 70’s. A 1968 graduate of Stanford University, Alexander went on to get his JD in 1975 from Willamette University School of Law after finishing up his Air Force service. He became an associate at Brown, Burt and Swanson immediately after law school. This is where his journey of advocacy began.

Mic has served on countless task forces, committees, boards and judicial commissions. As the Oregon Trial Lawyer Association President in 2002, Alexander is the only President in the history of the organization to attempt to personally visit every single member’s office. That’s the level of his commitment to service and community building that is an inspiration to all his friends and colleagues.

Alexander received the Distinguished Trial Lawyer Award in August of this year. He lives here in Salem with his wife and has two grown daughters.

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Kelley D. Strawn
Kelley D. Strawn is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Willamette University in Salem, OR, and the Chair of the Department of Sociology. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an M.A. in Political Science from Boston University, and a B.A. in International Studies from Whitworth College. His areas of expertise within sociology include political sociology and social movements, as well as the sociology of economic change. At Willamette, his primary teaching interests and responsibilities include Navigating Social Worlds (Soc 201), Social Statistics (Soc 301), Quantitative Methods in Social Research (Soc 401W), Social Movements (Soc 315), and Power in Society (Soc 437W). Other courses that he has taught include College Colloquium: Juggernauts of Popular Culture (IDS 101) and American Society (TIUA 0320), a course through Willamette’s partner institution, Tokyo International University of America (TIUA). Dr. Strawn’s research to date has focused on development of the Mexican Protest Event Database (MPED), a database of nationwide protest events in Mexico constructed from media records. The overarching goal of this project is to build a database that (a) allows for examination of Mexico protest trends over time at the national level, and (b) can be used to analyze and better understand media coverage- and selection-biases in the Mexican news media. This research has produced articles on the validity of media data, the relationship between social movements, protest, and societal change in Mexico, and trends in social movement scholarship in the United States and Mexico. This work has been published in journals Mobilization. An International Quarterly and Social Movements Studies, as well as the online journal, Sociology Compass, among other places.

Tim Buckley
Tim Buckley is a Salem-based writer, editor and communication consultant. 
As a freelancer for 30 years, Tim has been a newspaper reporter, feature writer, advertising copywriter, photographer, magazine editor and author. 
He has also written scripts for a variety of radio, video and DVD productions, as well as interpretive text for trade show displays and museums. 
Over the years, Tim’s work has earned awards from the National Bar Association, National Association of Counties, Society of Professional Journalists, Council for the Advancement and Support of Education and, most recently, from the Corporation for Enterprise Development. He is a partner in Buckley Communications with his wife, Elaine Hultengren. Together, they teach individuals and groups in the use of Nonviolent Communication (NVC). Among those, the couple teaches NVC to inmates weekly at Oregon State Penitentiary.
Since the early 1990s, Tim has been dedicated to “reentry” work in Salem, helping to establish understanding of and support for men and women coming back into our community from incarceration. He has started three men’s groups, the latest of which is hosted weekly at the DeMuniz Pine Street Resource Center, a hub for the Marion County Reentry Initiative.

Jade Aguilar
Jade Aguilar is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Willamette
University in Salem, OR. Her main area of interest is the study of
gender and sexuality in Intentional Communities. Her dissertation
research, completed at the University of Colorado-Boulder, was on
commitment mechanisms used in Egalitarian Intentional Communities in
the United States. Her current research is on Senior Co-housing
Communities.

Speakers

Mike Rodia Secretary for the Willamette Valley Beekeepers Association

Mike Rodia, Ph.D. is the Secretary for the Willamette Valley Beekeepers Association and he has been a beekeeper for 15 years. His B.S. and Ph.D. chemistry degrees along with a minor in biochemistry provided a basis for his career with Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division and the Oregon Fire Marshal’s office in the recognition, evaluation and control of chemical, physical and biological hazards in workplaces and at hazardous material spills. He has prepared and delivered hundreds of presentations and written works concerning chemicals as well as college classes in Toxicology and Hazardous Chemicals.

His extensive background in administrative rule review, preparation and propagation has helped local beekeepers to dissuade several cities in Oregon from imposing bans or severe restrictions on beekeeping.

Carolyn Breece Faculty Research Assistant, Entomology Dept. of Oregon State University

Carolyn Breece is a research assistant at the Oregon State University Honey Bee Lab, led by Dr. Ramesh Sagili. The Honey Bee Lab studies honey bee health and nutrition, brood pheromone, and analyzes bee samples for pests and disease.  She is also on the committee for the Oregon Master Beekeeper program, which is an education and service program for beekeepers of all levels. Carolyn’s main hobby is beekeeping, of course!

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Dr. Lynne Shinto N.D., M.P.H

Lynne Shinto, N.D., M.P.H, is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Neurology and Ob-Gyn at OHSU. Dr. Shinto is recognized at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and nationally for her research expertise in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) for chronic neurologic disorders. In addition to her research, Dr. Shinto provides naturopathic medicine care at OHSU’s Neurology Wellness Clinic and the Center for Women’s Health Integrative Medicine Clinic. Where she counsels patients on incorporating healthy diets, stress reduction techniques, and dietary supplements to maintain wellness.

Dr. Shinto has an undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts. She earned her naturopathic degree from Bastyr University in Kenmore, WA, and her Master of Public Health from OHSU. After graduating from Bastyr, she completed a 2-year fellowship, in the Department of Neurology, with a focus on patient-oriented CAM research.

Dr. Mark Walker DO

Dr. Mark Walker is the Medical Director of the Hospitalist Program at Salem Hospital, and has served there since 2005. His primary professional focus is hospital medicine and his activities include patient care and leadership related to hospital care. He has engaged in significant research over his career, earning his Doctorate in Osteopathy in 1993 from the University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health, College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery, Des Moines IA. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City KS.
Dr. Walker has a strong belief in the science supporting the health benefits of a plant-based diet.

Speakers

Karin Hayes Producer/director

Karin Hayes’s first documentary was the duPont-Columbia University Award-winning film, The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt (HBO/Cinemax 2004). Hayes also produced and directed (with Victoria Bruce) Held Hostage in Colombia, a documentary about three American contractors captured by FARC guerrillas in Colombia, and the 2008 Target® Filmmaker Award-winning film Pip & Zastrow: An American Friendship.
Hayes has contributed to other directors’ films including the 2006 Sundance documentary American Hardcore: the history of American punk rock from 1980-1986 (Sony Pictures Classics), and Disarm, a documentary about the devastating effects of landmines. Hayes has also worked on productions for PBS, National Geographic Channel, the Travel Channel, the Discovery Channel, and with The Cronkite Ward Company for TLC/Discovery Networks. In addition to feature documentary projects, Hayes has produced videos for the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian, and worked for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
In 2010 Hayes’s first book, Hostage Nation: Colombia’s guerilla army and the failed war on drugs (co-authored with Victoria Bruce) was published by Knopf. Hayes graduated from UCLA with a degree in World Arts& Cultures, and lives in New York City.

Chuck Sheketoff Executive Director of Oregon Center for Public Policy

Chuck Sheketoff is a founder of the Oregon Center for Public Policy. OCPP opened its doors in September 1997 after Chuck received a "public interest pioneer award" from the Stern Family Fund.

OCPP does in-depth research and analysis on budget, tax, and economic issues. OCPP’s mission is to use research and analysis to advance policies and practices that improve the economic and social opportunities of all Oregonians. OCPP aims to improve public policy decision making and generate more opportunities for all Oregonians.

Prior to leading OCPP, Chuck lobbied the Oregon State Legislature on behalf of legal aid clients (1993, 1995) and the Oregon Law Center (1997). He represented the interests of recipients of Aid to Dependent Children (now called Temporary Assistance to Needy Families), food stamps, Medicaid/Oregon Health Plan, General Assistance and long-term care programs.

Chuck has been actively involved in advocating for changes to Oregon's tax system since 1992. In 1997, he took the lead to help create two new tax credits for the working poor: the state earned income tax credit and the working family child care tax credit.

OCPP has exposed that many corporations pay only a small minimum tax and that corporations are picking up a smaller share of the income tax load than they did a generation ago despite growth in corporate profits. Chuck has pushed to close tax loopholes and inefficient, ineffective and unaccountable corporate subsidies. In 2009 and 2010 Chuck played a pivotal role in designing and securing enactment of Measures 66 and 67, laws that increased tax revenues from corporations and Oregon's wealthiest households.

Members of the legislature and lobbyists concerned about budget, tax and economic issues will tell you that OCPP reports are welcome additions to their bill files, and help them do their job. When advocates, policy makers or the media need timely, credible and accessible information about fiscal policy, they turn to Chuck and the OCPP.

Chuck has been a tireless advocates for disclosure of corporate taxes paid (and not paid) by large and publicly traded corporations. Chuck believes that if policymakers give the public more information about the tax liability of large corporations, the political climate would change and the legislature would be compelled to change the laws and start collecting a fair share of taxes from profitable corporations.

Chuck is a 1988 graduate of the University of Oregon School of Law and a 1977 graduate of the University of Vermont. He and his wife, award-winning journalist and best-selling author Naseem Rakha, have lived in Silverton since 1990 and have a son in middle school plus two cats and a dog.

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Roko Belic Director via SKYPE

Roko Belic’s directorial debut, the acclaimed “Genghis Blues” (1999), won the Sundance Audience Award and was nominated for an Academy Award® for best documentary feature. He is co-founder of Wadi Rum Films, Inc. Roko started his filmmaking life in third grade with his brother, Adrian, when their friend, Christopher Nolan (Dark Knight Rises, Inception) borrowed a super-8 movie camera from his parents. Heavily influenced by Star Wars, the young team experimented with special effects and the surreality of film. Later, because his mother used a wrench to lock their TV to the local PBS channel, Roko became enchanted with programs through which he could explore the world.  Belic recently directed the 44-minute documentary “Dreams: Cinema of the Subconscious,” which was released on the “Inception” Blu-Ray. For his current project, Belic teamed up with Hollywood heavyweight Tom Shadyac (“Liar Liar,” “Bruce Almighty”), who executive produced, to direct the feature documentary HAPPY.  HAPPY combines powerful human stories from around the world with cutting edge science to give us a deeper understanding of our most valued emotion.

Erik Noftle Assistant Professor of Psychology

Professor Noftle received his B.A. degree in psychology from Grinnell College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in personality-social psychology from UC Davis. After a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship at Wake Forest University and a year as an Assistant Professor at Linfield College, he joined the faculty at Willamette in 2010. Dr. Noftle enjoys teaching courses in personality psychology and research methods, among others. Dr. Noftle’s research interests include the following topics: personality variability, consistency, stability, and change; personality and character development; individual differences in attachment styles; functionalist approaches to discrete emotions and behavior; and assessment and psychometrics.hd

Speakers

Jen Rustemeyer

Jen Rustemeyer is the woman behind the Clean Bin Project blog. She also produced and appeared in The Clean Bin Project documentary film which recently won its 9th festival award. Jen's a passionate "zero-waster" who, despite her deathly fear of public speaking, has toured 7600kms across the country by bicycle talking to schools and community groups about garbage and recycling. By day she works for Light House, a green building non-profit in Vancouver, and by night can be found researching, recycling, and making things from scratch. Jen sat on the RCBC organics working group, is a judge for the BC Green Games school competition, and sat on the board for the Projecting Change Film Festival.

Bailey Payne

Bailey Payne grew up in McMinnville, Oregon and moved to Santa Cruz, CA where he received a B.A. in Environmental Studies at the University of California.  After graduation, he worked with the Peace Corps as an environmental awareness educator with environmental groups and the Dominican Republic National Park Service.  He returned to California and taught elementary school in the small town of Kettleman City while earning a teaching credential from Chapman University.  Since March of 2002, Bailey has been a Marion County Recycling & Waste Reduction Coordinator.  He is on the board of the Oregon Green Schools Association and his work primarily involves coordinating Marion County recycling programs and assisting businesses and schools to improve their environmental practices. 

Alan Pennington

Alan Pennington is an Arkansas native who graduated with a BA in Biology from Hendrix College in 1982. Prior to moving to the Salem area in 1997, Alan was a science and math teacher in three foreign countries—Indonesia, Spain, and North Carolina. He graduated from Oregon State University in 1999 with a Master’s Degree in Environmental Health and was employed at the City of Salem as a Natural Resource Outreach Specialist to work on water quality and salmon issues. He joined Marion County’s Public Works as a Waste Reduction Coordinator in the summer of 2008 and heads up the EarthWISE program for the county. He is happily married to Leona Guthrie and has two children—Emmett and Aaron.

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Erin Martin D.O., MPH

Erin Martin is a board certified physician who is passionate about helping people understand their health and make better choices that lead to a better life. She believes that patients that fully understand what is causing their disease will be able to make more informed decisions that will help them reverse their illnesses.
Dr. Martin attended medical school at Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where she also received a Masters degree in Public Health. She completed a residency in Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of Utah before returning to her native Oregon where she practiced in a variety of settings including a community health center, private practice, urgent care, and emergency medicine. She began to realize that the medical system was not set up to help people stay healthy, but rather fostered chronic illness. Convinced that there is a better way of healing that is right in front of us, she decided to pursue training in Integrative Medicine. She completed a two year academic fellowship in Integrative Medicine through the world-renowned Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona under the guidance of such pioneers in the field as Andrew Weil, MD and Tieraona Low Dog, MD. She then went on to obtain training in Functional Medicine through the Institute of Functional Medicine where she learned how to implement clinically effective programs for reversing heart disease, diabetes, obesity and many other chronic diseases.
Today Dr. Martin specializes in Functional and Lifestyle Medicine. She helps her patients identify and remove the things in their lives that are pushing them toward disease, and teaches them how to replace them with things that promote wellness and vitality in all areas of their life.
TrueMed Institute provides a non-judgmental space where patients are free to explore and make the changes necessary to experience total well-being. It is the culmination of Dr. Martin’s long-held vision for creating a life-changing space that promotes true wellness and joy in all aspects of life – mind, body and soul.

Aaron Crane

Aaron Crane is the Chief Finance and Strategy Officer of Salem Health, a large regional medical center, critical access hospital, and medical group practice, based in Salem Oregon. He came to Salem Health in January of 2004. Prior to his current role, he served Oregon Health & Sciences University (OHSU), Oregon’s only academic medical center, for seven years. He began his term at OHSU in 1997 as the corporate comptroller and was promoted to Hospital CFO in 2000. Mr. Crane has experience with two other community hospitals in Oregon. He recently completed his Masters in Healthcare Administration at the University of Minnesota. He has two children ages 20 and 17, and makes wine in his very limited spare time. Snow Skiing and scuba diving are his recreational passions.

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Evelyn Sherr
Is a Professor of Oceanography, in the Earth, Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences Department at Oregon State University. Prior to coming to OSU, she graduated from Emory University in Georgia with a B.S. in Biology. She went on to receive her PhD in Zoology from Duke University and did her Post Doctoral work at the University of Georgia in the Microbiology Department. Professor Sherr’s research work focuses on aquatic microbial ecology, pelagic food webs, heterotrophic microbes and the ecology of the arctic and sub arctic marine ecosystems. Her work in the Arctic Ocean coincided with the period when summer sea ice loss was becoming increasing evident. Professor Sherr has participated in numerous field programs in the Arctic beginning in 1994, conducting research in Alaska, the Bering Sea and the North Pole, to name a few. She continues to conduct research
in the Arctic and has over 100 publications. She lives in Corvallis with her husband Barry.

Ed Brook
Ed Brook is a professor of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University and studies climate history to understand how the earth system responds to climate change. His work uses polar ice cores as recorders of past climate change, and focuses on the relationship between greenhouse gases and climate change, on time scales of decades to hundreds of thousands of years. One clear outcome of ice core studies is the recognition that human activities have radically altered the levels and cycles of major greenhouse gases, pushing the atmosphere toward a state it has not seen for at least 50 million years.

Ed Brook’s work has also contributed to our understanding of how quickly climate can change. For example, during the last ice age climate in many parts of the world shifted from cold to warm conditions over just several decades, and sometimes faster. The mechanisms behind these abrupt shifts are only partly understood. Ed’s research group is involved in further studies of their timing and impact, to better understand the probability of similar events in the future.

From 1996 to 2004 Ed was a faculty member at Washington State University before moving to his current position at Oregon State University. Ed has conducted field research in Antarctica, Greenland, Scandinavia, northern Canada, and the western U.S. and runs one of a handful of analytical laboratories devoted to greenhouse gases in polar ice cores. His research group is currently involved in projects at both poles, including the WAIS Divide Drilling project in Antarctica and the NEEM ice core in Greenland. Ed is a Leopold Leadership Fellow, a Google Science Communication Fellow, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Ken Roseboro
Ken Roseboro has been called “the nation’s reporter on all issues surrounding
genetically modified foods” by Acres USA magazine. Ken is editor and
publisher of The Organic & Non-GMO Report, a monthly newsletter that focuses
on the threats posed by GM foods and the growing non-GMO food trend. He
is also editor and publisher of The Non-GMO Sourcebook, an annual directory
of suppliers of non-GMO and organic seed, grains, and ingredients. Ken is
author of Genetically Altered Foods and Your Health and The Organic Food Handbook
both published by Basic Health Publications. He is a member of the board of
directors of the Iowa Organic Association. He has spoken at many conferences
including Natural Products Expo West, All Things Organic, Acres USA
Conference, The Organic Farming Conference, National Heirloom Seed Expo,
and others.

George Kimbrel
CFS Senior Attorney George Kimbrell heads up the Center for Food Safety’s Pacific Northwest office in Portland, Oregon.  George practices environmental and administrative law with a focus on the impacts of new and emerging technologies. His legal and policy work spans a broad range of CFS program areas, including: genetically engineered (GE) foods; transgenic plants, trees and animals; food labeling; food safety and contamination; organic standards; factory farming pollution; aquaculture; pesticides; nanotechnology; and synthetic biology.  One of his cases, Monsanto v Geertson Seed Farms (2010), was the first U.S. Supreme Court case on the oversight of GE crops.  George has also published several articles on GE issues and often speaks on the topic.  He received his law degree from Lewis and Clark Law School, where  he now also teaches food and agriculture law as an adjunct professor.  George joined CFS upon completing a clerkship with the Honorable Ronald M. Gould, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Kim Goodwin
Kim Goodwin originally wanted to be a farmer.  Still does, in fact.  But as she explored the steps necessary to create and run a successful farm, while educating herself deeply in farming issues, she had a startling realization.  Farmers were so busy farming that they didn’t have the time to protect their right tofarm!  Kim instead realized the importance of helping to educate citizens about the harms that are occurring in our food system, and what we can do about it. Kim lives outside of Eugene.

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Myla Haider
Myla Haider is a former criminal investigator, counselor, advocate, writer, and survivor of Military Sexual Trauma (MST). She served in the U.S. Army for nine years during which she deployed to Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. As an Army CID agent she worked sexual assault cases involving both male and female victims. Ms. Haider has briefed members of Congress on systemic investigative deficiencies associated with sexual assault cases and written articles about sexual assault investigations published in the journal "Sexual Assault Report." Her experiences as an investigator, survivor and advocate were featured in the film "The Invisible War." Ms. Haider has served as a trainer for mental health providers and currently assists veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder stemming from combat, sexual assault, and other trauma in appealing unjust military discharges and obtaining benefits they deserve.

Dr. Lori Daniels
Dr. Lori Daniels is currently the military sexual trauma psychotherapist for the Portland (OR) Vet Center.  She earned her MSW from the University of Chicago in 1987 and worked as a social worker/psychotherapist for the VAMC American Lake (Tacoma, WA) inpatient and outpatient PTSD programs until 1992 when she moved to Honolulu.  She then worked as the Director of the PTSD Clinical Team of the Honolulu VAM&ROC (1992 – 2001).    After receiving her Ph.D. in Social Welfare from the University of Hawaii – Manoa in 2002, Dr. Daniels worked as Assistant Professor of Social Work for Hawai‘i  Pacific University (Honolulu, HI) and as a Consultant with the National Center for PTSD – Pacific Islands Division until 2008.  For the past 16 years, Dr. Daniels has presented information about her work with war-related PTSD at several International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies Annual Meetings, and has been the Co-chair of a community-based conference: Stress, Violence, and Trauma: Promoting Community Resilience (Honolulu, HI) from 2004-2009.  She currently facilitates two women’s veteran trauma groups out of the Portland Vet Center, as well as sees female and male MST survivors in individual psychotherapy. 

Speakers

Donald Goldmacher
Donald Goldmacher, Producer/Director, is a longtime filmmaker, labor advocate, activist, and community psychiatrist with decades of experience observing, documenting and participating in social change. His first film, “Do No Harm,” exposed the controversial marketing and research practices of the pharmaceutical industry. His most recent feature documentary,Ruthie and Connie: Every Room in the House, about two lesbian activists in New York City, premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, won over 20 festival awards, and aired on HBO and television stations around the world. In 2004, Donald produced “One Vote,” a 6 minute non-partisan video encouraging single, unregistered women to vote, for which he created a then innovative internet outreach strategy for distribution to millions of women, through a wide range of voter registration, women's, and public health organizations, including Planned Parenthood.

Russ Beaton
Russ Beaton obtained his B.A. from Willamette University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Claremont University, all in economics.  He taught at California State Fullerton and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, B.C., before returning to Willamette, where he was a professor of Economics for 33 years, and professor emeritus since 2003.  While at Willamette, he specialized in areas such as environmental economics, urban land economics, and energy economics, and has done several studies focusing on urban growth boundary policies.  He participated in the structuring and passing of Oregon’s land use laws, and has consulted to several state agencies, including ODOT, Department of Land Conservation and Development, Department of Energy, and Department of Economic Development. He has co-authored three books in the area of sustainable development, and is working on a fourth.  He also concentrates on gardening, grand parenting, and playing tennis.

Speakers

Fariborz Pakseresht
Fariborz Pakseresht has served as the Director of the Oregon Youth Authority since March 2012. He joined the OYA in 2008 after seven years in a variety of leadership roles with the Oregon Department of Human Services and 12 years at the Oregon Department of Administrative Services. Director, he is responsible for overseeing the operations of the state’s juvenile corrections agency, which serves approximately 1,750 youth offenders ages 12-24 at any given time.

Mr Pakseresht has become known as a proponent of efficiency, effectiveness and transparency in government. He is also known for developing innovative programs that draw youth offenders into the social fabric of the larger society, teaching them useful skills and exposing them to cooperative community values.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from Willamette University.

His community activities include serving on the board of directors of the YMCA of the Marion and Polk counties, the board of the Salem Peace Plaza, and on the planning committee of the Annual Salem Peace Lecture. He is also a fellow in the American Leadership Forum and a member of the Oregon Solutions Camp Odyssey Team. He was honored with the Annual Peacemaker Award in October 2012.

Fariborz’s interests include management theories and practices, personal and organizational change, human potential, communications, quantum physics and mindfulness. He lives here in Salem.

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Chuck Sheketoff Executive Director of Oregon Center for Public Policy

Chuck Sheketoff is a founder of the Oregon Center for Public Policy. OCPP opened its doors in September 1997 after Chuck received a "public interest pioneer award" from the Stern Family Fund.

OCPP does in-depth research and analysis on budget, tax, and economic issues. OCPP’s mission is to use research and analysis to advance policies and practices that improve the economic and social opportunities of all Oregonians. OCPP aims to improve public policy decision making and generate more opportunities for all Oregonians.

Prior to leading OCPP, Chuck lobbied the Oregon State Legislature on behalf of legal aid clients (1993, 1995) and the Oregon Law Center (1997). He represented the interests of recipients of Aid to Dependent Children (now called Temporary Assistance to Needy Families), food stamps, Medicaid/Oregon Health Plan, General Assistance and long-term care programs.

Chuck has been actively involved in advocating for changes to Oregon's tax system since 1992. In 1997, he took the lead to help create two new tax credits for the working poor: the state earned income tax credit and the working family child care tax credit.

OCPP has exposed that many corporations pay only a small minimum tax and that corporations are picking up a smaller share of the income tax load than they did a generation ago despite growth in corporate profits. Chuck has pushed to close tax loopholes and inefficient, ineffective and unaccountable corporate subsidies. In 2009 and 2010 Chuck played a pivotal role in designing and securing enactment of Measures 66 and 67, laws that increased tax revenues from corporations and Oregon's wealthiest households.

Members of the legislature and lobbyists concerned about budget, tax and economic issues will tell you that OCPP reports are welcome additions to their bill files, and help them do their job. When advocates, policy makers or the media need timely, credible and accessible information about fiscal policy, they turn to Chuck and the OCPP.

Chuck has been a tireless advocates for disclosure of corporate taxes paid (and not paid) by large and publicly traded corporations. Chuck believes that if policymakers give the public more information about the tax liability of large corporations, the political climate would change and the legislature would be compelled to change the laws and start collecting a fair share of taxes from profitable corporations.

Chuck is a 1988 graduate of the University of Oregon School of Law and a 1977 graduate of the University of Vermont. He and his wife, award-winning journalist and best-selling author Naseem Rakha, have lived in Silverton since 1990 and have a son in middle school plus two cats and a dog.

David Cay Johnston

An American investigative journalist and author, a specialist in economics and tax issues, and winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting. Since 2009 he has been a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer who teaches the tax, property and regulatory law of the ancient world at Syracuse University College of Law and Whitman School of Management. From July 2011 until September 2012 he was a columnist for Reuters, writing, and producing video commentaries, on worldwide issues of tax, accounting, economics, public finance and business. Johnston has been board president of Investigative Reporters and Editors since June 2012.
He started his career at age 19 with the San Jose Mercury News and has been an investigative reporter and writer ever since, working for the Detroit Free Press, the Los Angeles Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He received his 2001 Pulitzer Prize “for his penetrating and enterprising reporting that exposed loopholes and inequities in the U.S. tax code, which was instrumental in bringing about reforms.” Johnston described how corporations were paying less in taxes, even as individuals were paying more.
Johnston is the author of numerous best-selling books on tax and economic policy. He lives with his wife Jennifer in Brighton, NY and has 8 children and 5 grandchildren.