School of Business

2019-2020; 2020-2021

Melissa M. Appleyard is an Ames Professor in the Management of Innovation and Technology at Portland State University and serves as the Associate Dean of Graduate Programs in The School of Business. Her research focuses on cooperative R&D and innovation processes. She has examined the semiconductor industry's ability to achieve perpetual innovation, and her recent work focuses on open strategy, which integrates open innovation with traditional business strategy. She also has conducted research funded by the NSF to understand the drivers of interdisciplinary R&D in nanomedicine. Prof. Appleyard’s research outlets include California Management Review, Industrial Relations, the Journal of Product Innovation Management, Long Range Planning, and the Strategic Management Journal. She has served as a research fellow of UC Berkeley's Competitive Semiconductor Manufacturing Center sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Prof. Appleyard holds a BA in Economics/International Area Studies from UCLA and a PhD in Economics from UC Berkeley.

-> Involving female-identifying middle school girls in blockchain technology

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Kurt Bedell brings a broad and deep set of public and private sector marketing, communications and technology credentials to his role as assistant director of marketing in University Communications at Portland State. Before coming to PSU, Kurt led higher education marketing, business development and sales programs for Apple's education business in the US and UK for over 17 years. He made a decision in 2013 to leave the corporate world and dedicate his next life chapter to working in public education and non-profit organizations.

The product of multiple generations of educators, Kurt grew up in the small midwestern town of Holland, Michigan, studied history at Northwestern, and taught 9th grade English in Bangkok, Thailand the year after college. He has called Portland, Oregon home off and on since 1995 and currently lives in the Belmont district.

-> Balancing virtual and physical space needs on a university campus

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Academic Personnel and Leadership Development

2019-2020; 2020-2021

Dr. Shelly Chabon is the Vice Provost for Academic Personnel and Dean of Interdisciplinary General Education at Portland State University. Dr. Chabon has worked in a university setting for over 40 years and formerly served as PSU’s Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences as well as Chair and Professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences. In 2014, Dr. Chabon transitioned to the Office of Academic Affairs to provide leadership for collective bargaining negotiations and contract management with three academic unions, and oversee recruitment, development, and retention of academic personnel. And as of 2017, also took on the role of Dean of Interdisciplinary Education overseeing University Studies and The Honors College. Dr. Chabon is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and was the 2012 ASHA President where she received the Certificate of Recognition from the ASHA for Special Contributions in Higher Education. Dr. Chabon has written and co-authored a number of articles, chapters, books and language intervention and training programs.

-> Future of labor relations and organizing in higher education

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School of A+D, Graphic Design

2019-2020; 2020-2021

Elisabeth (Lis) Charman is engaged in research and practice related to graphic design education and community engagement. She speaks and writes about these topics, and her work has been recognized by awards, grants, and leading design organizations.

Lis co-directs Friendtorship, an arts mentorship program that aims to increase access to design and arts learning for underserved high school students, empowering them to engage in experiential creative processes that better their communities. Committed to community-based learning (CBL) and design for social change, her students have researched and designed for organizations: working with homeless youth; on sustainable food systems; micro-businesses and underserved entrepreneurs; watershed research and restoration; our region’s high tech industry’s evolution; underserved youth; documentary, independent and women filmmakers; sexual assault; and abused immigrants and immigrant rights.

Lis’s work has been exhibited and published nationally and internationally, receiving recognition from AIGA, Art Directors Club of NY, and How magazine.

-> Future of augmented reality/virtual reality (XR/VR) in higher education

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-> The future of work and organizational practice

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Disability Resource Center

2019-2020; 2020-2021

Jen Dugger Spalding is the Director of the Disability Resource Center at Portland State University and has been in the field of disability resources and services for more than fifteen years. Jen recently completed her time on the board of Directors for the Association of Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD) and prior to that, Jen served four years on the board of the ACLU of Oregon, acting as the Equity Officer on both boards for one year.

Jen says that one of the best parts of her job is working with disability services professionals to find creative solutions to address the latent ableism within the field. As a white, cisgender, queer woman who does not identify as having a disability or being disabled, Jen understands the gravity of leveraging power and privilege for those experiencing more barriers.

-> Accessibility as an issue of future readiness

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School of Business

2019-2020; 2020-2021

Jeanne Enders is a Social and Organizational Psychologist teaching in both the undergraduate and graduate programs in the School of Business at Portland State. Jeanne’s areas of interest include the umbrella concepts of meaning and happiness in work settings and innovation in work organizations and in teaching/learning. Her current research examines the life narratives of regional ethics award winners and the role of “folio thinking” and purpose in leadership identity formation. Jeanne holds two bachelor's degrees: German Literature and Psychology and earned her masters and PhD at the University of Chicago.

-> The future of work

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Cultural Resource Centers

2019-2020; 2020-2021

Cynthia is the Executive Director of the Cultural Resource Centers and faculty in University Studies where she has taught community based learning courses since 1999. In 2015, she was awarded the Governors' Gold Award in Civic Leadership by Oregon’s Governor Kate Brown. She worked over 10 years for the nonprofit Latino Network; worked for the non-profit Innovation Partnership; and operated her own consulting firm. She has served as Co-chair for the Oregon Latino Agenda for Action; the Oregon Commission on Hispanic Affairs and Oregon’s Environmental Justice Task Force. Cynthia will complete her MFA in Creative Nonfiction writing in the Spring of 2020. Cynthia was born in Camp 52, Arizona, a small migrant community beyond the outskirts of Phoenix and raised in Yuma on the U.S. Mexico border. She moved to Portland in 1993 where she lives with her partner and two children.

-> Exploring student needs and perspectives about the future and their success

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School of Education

2019-2020; 2020-2021

Andres Guzman (he/him) is currently serving as the Coordinator for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the College of Education (COE) at Portland State University. In this role, he is responsible for coordinating all activities on equity, diversity, and inclusion involving faculty, students, and staff in the COE. Additionally, Andres partners with COE stakeholders, particularly those from diverse and historically marginalized backgrounds, to actively identify and advocate for the removal of institutional barriers that impact academic and professional success. He is a proud alum of Portland State University and the University of Oregon. Andres is interested in the ways in which futures work can imagine and actualize more liberatory worlds.

-> Exploring student needs and perspectives about the future and their success

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PSU Library

2019-2020; 2020-2021

Ed Hill (he/him) is the Emerging Technologies Librarian and Head of Library Technology with the Portland State Library. In this role he works with his team to provide technology services and support to PSU's students, faculty, staff, and community. Before coming to PSU in January 2019, Ed worked in library technology as a web developer and systems librarian after graduating from Indiana University with a Masters of Library Science and Masters of Music. Ed maintains an active interest and practice in privacy and accessibility issues as they relate to libraries and is active in the Code4Lib community, especially around the Python programming language. He was born and raised in East Tennessee and will talk gravy for as long as you want.

-> Future of information and education/information technology in higher education

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Industry and Entrepreneurial Engagement

2019-2020; 2020-2021

Angela Jackson shaped PSU's innovation and entrepreneurship presence in the State for the past nine years, most visibly through its award-winning Business Accelerator and signature student invention competitions, Cleantech Challenge and InventOR. She currently serves as the President's Business Liaison as part of the University Relations team, and works closely across disciplines to form enduring, productive partnerships with industry and entrepreneurial organizations. In addition, she is co-founder and managing director of the Portland Seed Fund, a top-performing private/public seed fund with 4 funds/$24 Million under management. The Fund has invested in ~100 high growth, capital-efficient companies in sectors including technology, energy, health and consumer product, primarily in the Northwest, creating thousands of jobs and generating significant payroll tax and investment inflows for the State. The Fund has a strong track record investing in diverse founding teams.

Angela is a venture partner in Portfolia, a women-led fund based in San Francisco, investing nationally. She was named 2018 Tech Champion of the Year by Technology Association of Oregon, and a Woman of Influence in 2015 by Portland Business Journal. She was a delegate to the US State Department's Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Hyderabad, India and speaks globally on entrepreneurial ecosytem creation and investment. She serves on the boards of Lumen Learning, the Oregon Film Board and the Angel Capital Association. She holds a B.A. in English and history from Boston University and a M.A. in environmental studies from University of Oregon.

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-> Future of information technology in higher education

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Public Health

2019-2020; 2020-2021

A social psychologist by training, Yves Labissiere is an associate professor at Portland State University where he teaches classes and conducts research on the psychology of oppression and empowerment, diversity and learning, inter and intra-group relations and conflict. His research interests focus broadly on intra/intergroup relations and more specifically on the negotiation of notions of Blackness and racial and ethnic identities among groups categorized as Black in the US. He has years of experience conducting fieldwork with vulnerable populations: immigrants, refugees, and Black populations in Miami, New York, and Portland. Yves recently finished a Pew Funded project examining ethnic difference in civic engagement among African Americans, Cuban, Jamaicans, Haitians, and European Americans and the role that faith and religion played. As the Chair of the Institutional Assessment Council, Yves leads a campus-wide initiative to develop campus learning outcomes and to bolster campus-wide assessment. Yves received a BA from Yale, and a doctorate in Psychology from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is an experienced assessment specialist and program evaluator.

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International Partnerships and Initiatives

2019-2020; 2020-2021

Sally S. Mudiamu is the Director of International Partnerships at Portland State University. Her research focus is on virtual exchange and internationalization of higher education. Her Futures interests include integration of the UN SDGs into the curriculum using Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL), and collaborative project based learning in global virtual teams. At PSU, she supports international partnerships and programs at the institutional, school, departmental level and administers the COIL Scholars Program. Dr. Mudiamu holds a BA HIstory from Lewis & Clark College, MA History from the London School of Economics & Political Science, and an EdD in Educational Leadership from Portland State University.

-> Future scenarios for internationlization in higher education

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Doctoral Student, Education

Collaboratory Graduate Assistant

2019-2020; 2020-2021

Sheila C. Mullooly is an artist and international educator with 26 years of professional experience teaching, providing teacher training (Switzerland, Australia, Burma, South Korea, Sudan, South Sudan), and in intensive English program leadership. She is a Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) specialist, College Reading and Learning Association (CRLA) tutor trainer, & former international education administrator at Portland State University's Intensive English Language Program (IELP) Learning Center (ESOL Success Center dedicated to serving multilingual, transnational students & scholars at PSU and around the world). She is a scholartist & doctoral candidate in the PSU College of Education Educational Leadership & Policy Program. Sheila is particularly interested and committed to learning more about how insights from collaborative Arts-Based Research (ABR) and critical Foresights Thinking can help us un/re-envision & un/re-learn the ways we engage with transnational/global education across educational contexts.

Sheila completed her B.A. in Biology as a U.S. citizen at Grinnell College. She completed her Cambridge Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA) at Basil Paterson College as an Irish citizen. She became a Diplomaed Artist HGK at the University of Applied Sciences and Art of Central Switzerland as a foreign-born Swiss citizen. Following which, she completed her M.A. TESOL Studies as an international graduate student at the University of Queensland Australia. Her current collaborative Arts-Based Research focuses on examination of transnational student & scholar lived educational experience at a public predominantly white urban-access/research institution in the Pacific Northwest through poetic inquiry and ethnographic experiential futures in international higher education 2060.

-> Arts-Based Research (ABR), Critical Internationalization Studies, The Future of Higher Education, Foresights Thinking, Ethnographic Experiential Futures, Poetic Inquiry

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Economics

2019-2020; 2020-2021

Cesar M. Rodriguez is an Associate Professor of Economics at Portland State University and currently serves as the graduate director. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh in 2009. He grew up in Uruguay where he attended the University of the Republic. Before joining the faculty of the Department of Economics at PSU in 2013, he worked at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC. His research focuses on the macroeconomic aspects of international economics and international finance, and development economics with a special interest in Latin America. His most recent research emphasizes the role of inflation targeting, capital flows, financial integration, and macroprudential policies for developing countries. In addition, his work studies institutional arrangements of central banks for financial stability in developing countries. His articles on these topics have been published in scholarly journals such as the Journal of International Economics, the Journal of International Money and Finance, Economic Modelling, International Finance, the International Review of Economics and Finance, International Economics, and Small Business Economics.

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Biology

2019-2020; 2020-2021

Todd Rosenstiel is an Associate Professor of Biology and researcher in PSU's Center for Life in Extreme Environments, as well as Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Program in PSU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Todd's research focuses on the plant biology of extreme environments (including Antarctica), Climate Change impacts on ecosystem function, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, and urban ecology. His research lab focuses on how organisms. communities, and ecosystems (both natural and urban) evolve over-time. He is especially interested in how we can use a futures lens to predict future states of organismal and ecosystem function under the reality of rapid and persistent global change. Additionally, Todd is deeply committed to developing new approaches for revolutionizing the training and development of graduate students and future faculty, as well innovations in expanding undergraduate opportunities in authentic and transformative research.

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-> Faculty perspectives on the future of higher education, teaching, learning and research

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Student Counseling Center

2019-2020; 2020-2021

Julie is the Director of Health Promotion in the Center for Student Health and Counseling and the Healthy Campus Initiative Manager for Portland State University (PSU). She has been with PSU for approximately seven years. She came to PSU with years of experience in college health and wellbeing including work at several universities and a national non-profit organization. In her time at PSU she has grown the Health Promotion Department from a single person to a robust staff of four professional staff and dozens of student peer educators. Some of the work that is most fulfilling for her is the work she does with the Healthy Campus Initiative, which analyzes campus, local and national data to set health and wellbeing priorities for campus by setting goals and objectives. The work of the Healthy Campus Initiative is designed to take a zoom-out approach and look at long-term campus culture change.

In her time away from campus she and her husband own a local dessert cafe and she has two young girls at home, who she adores. She loves supporting her girls in their activities and running from performance to competition and back again.

-> Student well-being in a changing future

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Graduate Studies

2019-2020; 2020-2021

Rossitza B. Wooster has served as dean of the Graduate School at Portland State University (PSU) since January 2018. She oversees graduate admissions, academic services and student services. Wooster works closely with faculty and administration to improve the quality of graduate education at PSU. She is an active member of the Western Association of Graduate Schools and Council of Graduate Schools. Previously, Wooster was professor of economics for 12 years at PSU. She holds a Ph.D. in international economics from University of Oregon, a M.S. in economics from University of Ohio and a B.A. in economics from St. Lawrence University.

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PSU President's Office

2019-2020; 2020-2021

Dr. Mark Wubbold currently serves as the Senior Policy Analyst in the office of the President at Portland State University. His eclectic portfolio includes staffing Presidential initiatives and committees — such as strategic planning, campus safety, accreditation, etc. — that address campus-wide issues. Previous to this, he was the special assistant to PSU’s Vice President for Finance and Administration where he worked on fiscal management issues and special projects. Before coming to PSU in 1990, Mark taught technical theater and design for eight years at Mt. Hood and Clackamas Community College and was the Technical Coordinator for OMSI's Traveling Exhibits Program, the nation's second largest program of this type. Mark's wife Manya is a potter and their three grown sons live in Portland and Philadelphia.

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