2019 Speaker, Profile
Aruna Masih Bennett Hartman Morris & Kaplan, LLP. Aruna is a partner with the law firm of Bennett, Hartman, Morris & Kaplan LLP, where she practices civil rights and labor and employment law from the union/employee side. She was born in New York but raised in...
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Jack Holland Reid, McCarthy, Ballew & Leahy, LLP. Jack is a graduate of the Seattle University School of Law, where he was the president of the Environmental Law Society and a member of the Dispute Resolution Board. Jack earned his undergraduate degree from...
2019 Speaker, Profile
Kyle Abraham Attorney, Barran Liebman, LLP. Kyle Abraham represents employers in both traditional labor and employment law matters. He works with businesses of all sizes, government entities, and not-for-profit organizations. Kyle’s labor practice includes negotiating...
2019 Speaker, Profile
Derecka Mehrens Executive Director, Working Partnerships USA. Derecka brings fifteen years of community organizing, civic engagement, and public policy experience working in communities of color and with low and moderate-income families. Under Derecka’s...
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Diana Winther Co-Planner, General Counsel, IBEW Local 48. Diana attended Lewis and Clark Law School. Prior to becoming general counsel of IBEW Local 48 in 2015, Diana was a law clerk at St. Andrew Legal Clinic, the Oregon Education Association, the Labor Education and...
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Caren Sencer Weinberg Roger & Rosenfeld Caren Sencer is a shareholder in the Alameda office of Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld. Since 2004, she has represented unions in all aspects of labor and employment law, as well as provided institutional advice to...
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Jennifer Sung Employment Relations Board Member Jennifer Sung currently serves as a member of the Employment Relations Board. Before joining the Board, she was a partner at McKanna Bishop Joffe, LLP, where she represented labor organizations and employees in civil...
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Shirin Khosravi Attorney, SEIU Local 503 Shirin graduated from Lewis and Clark Law School in 2014 and since then has worked as an attorney for SEIU Local 503, the largest public sector union in...
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Lisa Umscheid Employment Relations Board Lisa earned her B.A. from Pomona College and her J.D. from Willamette University College of Law. Before joining the Board, Lisa worked for more than 20 years as a labor and employment attorney, representing both public and...
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Stacy Chamberlain Collective Bargaining Director, Oregon AFSCME Council 75. Stacy Chamberlain joined Oregon AFSCME Council 75 as a council representative in 2005. Chamberlain serves as the collective bargaining director. Prior to her work with AFSCME, Chamberlain...
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Tom Chamberlain President, Oregon AFL-CIO. Tom was elected President of the Oregon AFL-CIO by a unanimous vote of the Executive Board in October of 2005. He was reelected in 2007, 2011. A native Oregonian, Tom grew up in a home where, he says, “the difference between...
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Jason Weyand Board Member, Employment Relations Board Jason earned his B.A. from Oregon State University and his J.D. from the University of Oregon School of Law. After law school, Jason served as an ERISA/Bankruptcy attorney in the Office of the General Counsel of...
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David Rosenfeld Attorney, Weinberg Roger & Rosenfeld David Rosenfeld has been practicing Union law since 1973. He has argued many important cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, the California Supreme Court, various federal and state courts of appeal and the NLRB....
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Adam L. Rhynard Board Chair, Employment Relations Board Adam earned his B.F.A. and M.A. at the University of Arizona and his J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law. Before moving to Oregon, he practiced extensively in the areas of labor, employment, and...
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Richard G. McCracken General Counsel, UNITE HERE General Counsel, Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers Internal Association (“SMART”) Rich is a partner in McCracken Stemerman & Holsberry, headquartered in San Francisco. His work has been concentrated...
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Howell Lankford Arbitrator and Mediator After graduating from Reed College, Howell had a few real jobs and then became a lawyer in 1977. He was an administrative law judge for Oregon ERB for five years and became a full time arbitrator in...
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Elizabeth Joffe McKanna Bishop Joffe, LLP After graduating from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1988, Liz worked at the UAW International in Detroit. Liz then attended the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating in...
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Jessica Dietz Officer in Charge, NLRB Subregion 36 Jessica joined the NLRB Portland Subregion office in 2006 as a Field Examiner and became Officer in Charge in 2015. Jessica graduated from Lewis & Clark College in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts in International...
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Barbara Diamond Diamond Law Barbara graduated from NYU School of Law and has practiced union-side labor law for almost 30 years. She is a frequent trainer for the Oregon State Bar, LERC, the Oregon Education Association, AFSCME, and other union clients. In 2012,...