Project Committee

Lewis & Clark’s York Committee was made up of representatives from the campus and Portland communities, each person bringing a unique perspective and set of qualifications. The members were:

• Linda Tesner, chair, director of the Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art at Lewis & Clark
• Debra Beers, senior art lecturer and head of the drawing program at Lewis & Clark
• John Callahan, Morgan S. Odell Professor of Humanities at Lewis & Clark and literary executor for Ralph Ellison
• Parasa Chanramy, CAS ’10
• Se-ah-dom Edmo, program coordinator for the Indigenous Ways of Knowing program at the Graduate School of Education and Counseling
• Avel Gordly, former Oregon state representative
• Paula Hayes, CAS ’92
• Chris Jay, CAS ’72, First Vice President, Merrill Lynch & Co., Lewis & Clark trustee
• Darrell Millner, York historian and professor of Black Studies, Portland State University
• Charles Neal, Lewis & Clark Law School Class of ’07
• Mike Rathbun, visiting assistant professor of art at Lewis & Clark

(Consulting provided by Kristin Calhoun, public art manager, Regional Arts and Culture Council of Portland)