2025, News
Ranfis Villatoro BlueGreen Alliance, Senior State Policy Mgr. A son of two immigrants from Central America, Ranfis Giannettino Villatoro has dedicated the last eight years as a community organizer, workforce development coordinator, and grant writer/development...
2025
Adam Morrison NLRB Region 19 Adam is a Senior Field Attorney with Region 19 of the National Labor Relations Board. He has been with the Agency since 2001 and he has been the NLRB’s Resident Agent in Spokane, Washington since 2010. Adam handles some of the NLRB’s most...
2025
Laurie Wimmer Northwest Oregon Labor Council Laurie Wimmer, a 34-year veteran of Oregon politics, is Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Northwest Oregon Labor Council, a coalition of 103 union locals in a four-country region representing 58,000 workers in public and...
2025, 2026 Speaker
Bonnie Allen-Sailer Northwest Workers Justice Project Bonnie (she/her/ella) practices employment and occasionally immigration law. She is a passionate advocate for immigrant workers and is working to combat the particular barriers faced by those workers in building...
2025
Sally LaJoie LaJoie Mediation, Arbitration, and Consulting Sally LaJoie is a mediator and arbitrator in private practice. She is a graduate of Willamette University College of Law and has spent over two decades working in labor and employment law in Oregon. She is a...
2025, 2026 Speaker
Krista Cordova McKanna Bishop Joffe, LLP Krista joined the firm in 2023, after serving as in house counsel for ATU 757. She has extensive experience in representing public sector unions and their members in administrative hearings and arbitration. She also advises...
2025
Angela Bonilla Portland Association of Teachers Angela Bonilla was a 4 th grade Spanish immersion teacher in Portland, Oregon until 2022. She’d only been a teacher in Portland for 6 years when she ran for President of the Portland Association of Teachers and won,...
2024, 2025, 2026 Speaker
Benjamin O’Glasser Oregon Employment Relations Board Member Ben O’Glasser is a Member of the Oregon Employment Relations Board, first appointed by Governor Kotek as a Board Member effective May 1, 2023. Before joining the Board, he was a pro tem judge for the...
2020, 2025, 2026 Speaker, Profile
Mark Brenner University of Oregon’s Labor Education & Research Center Mark is a career instructor at University of Oregon’s Labor Education and Research Center, where he focuses on teaching and leadership development. He is best known for his 12-year tenure...
2020, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 Speaker, Conference Organizer, Profile
Graham Trainor President, Oregon AFL-CIO Graham grew up in a small, rural, Midwestern town in the heart of the historical stronghold of the American automobile manufacturing industry, not far from the birthplace of the United Automobile Workers. His grandfather, a...
2019, 2020, 2025, 2026 Speaker, Co-planner, Profile
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...
2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 Speaker, Profile
Caren Sencer Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld Caren Sencer is a shareholder in the Alameda officeof Weinberg, Roger &; Rosenfeld. Since 2004, she has represented unions in all aspects of labor and employment law, as well as provided institutional advice to unions....
2018, 2019, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 Speaker, Profile
Shirin Khosravi Member, Oregon Employment Relations Board Shirin Khosravi is a Member of the Employment Relations Board. She received her B.A. from Bard College and her J.D. from Lewis and Clark Law School. Before joining the Board, Shirin was the Supervising Attorney...
2017, 2025
Corey Hope Leaffer AFSCME Organizing Director. Corey is the Associate Director for Oregon AFSCME Council 75, representing 37,000 Oregonians who work for OHSU, the State of Oregon, counties, municipalities and behavioral health nonprofits, as well as self-employed...
2017, 2024, 2025, 2026 Speaker
Daniel Hutzenbiler Attorney, McKanna Bishop Joffe, LLP. Dan began working with McKanna Bishop Joffe in 2016, after working for nine years at Seattle-based Robblee Detwiler & Black and previously serving as general counsel for the Washington and Northern Idaho...
2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 Speaker, Profile
David Rosenfeld 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. His...
2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 Speaker, Profile
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...
2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2025, Profile
Margaret Olney Bennett Hartman, LLP Margaret has practiced labor and employment law in Oregon for over 25 years. For 19 years, she had her own firm, where she also developed unique expertise in election law, advising unions and other progressive organizations like...
2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 Speaker, Profile
Liz 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, Berkley, graduating in 1993....
2015, 2016, 2019, 2023, 2025, 2026 Speaker, Profile
Barbara Diamond (she/they) Diamond ADR Arbiter Barbara J. Diamond became a labor arbitrator after practicing union side labor law for over thirty years. She is a graduate of NYU Law School and Binghamton University as well as the Federal Mediation and Conciliation...
2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2024, 2025, Co-planner, Profile
John Bishop Co-Planner, Attorney, McKanna Bishop Joffe, LLP John has spent his entire legal career working exclusively for labor unions and their members in disputes with employers. He began his legal practice in New York City in 1985 and continued it after moving to...
2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2025, Co-planner, Profile
Noah Barish Co-Planner, Attorney, McKanna Bishop Joffe, LLP Noah Barish, Co-Planner, Attorney, McKanna Bishop Joffe, LLP. Noah practices in the areas of labor and employment law, representing private and public sector labor unions and their members in administrative...
