2026 Speaker
Emily Guida Bennett Hartman, LLP. I was drawn to pursue a legal career because I wanted to help people experiencing the effects of societal power imbalances. I have experienced these imbalances between employers and employees through years of working in the service...
2026 Speaker
Representative Dacia Grayber Oregon House of Representatives I was 10 years old when I decided I wanted to be a firefighter. It wasn’t a common career path for women back then, and to say that I experienced barriers along the way is an understatement. I’ve never...
2026 Speaker
Representative Lisa Fragala Oregon House of Representatives Lisa has called Eugene, Oregon home for over 30 years and lives there with her husband, Tibor Bessko. Before being elected to the Oregon Legislature she worked as an educator for over 25 years – first as an...
2026 Speaker
Derrick Louie Bennett Hartman, LLP. I was born and raised in Portland, Oregon to a family of immigrants. My mother and father were from Hong Kong and came to America in the 1960s. As a kid, I watched my mom juggle two jobs while my dad worked long hours in tech...
2026 Speaker
Charese Rohny McKanna Bishop Joffe LLP. Charese specializes in representing private and public employees in employment law, discrimination, civil rights and labor law matters. Since 1995, Charese has advised and represented public and private employees on wide range...
2026 Speaker
Dorothy Foley Arbitrator Dorothy Foley graduated from the Benjamin N. Cardozo (Yeshiva University) School of Law. While in law school she interned for the Brooklyn (NY) District Attorney’s Office and the law firm of Carpenter, Bennett and Morrissey. After law...
2026 Speaker
Jared Franz Tedesco Law Group Jared joined the firm in 2025 after almost ten years of experience in Oregon’s labor movement as both an organizer and attorney. This includes serving in various roles at ATU Local 757, and several years as the Supervising Attorney...
2026 Speaker
Brenna Wolf NLRB Region 19 Field Attorney. Brenna is a Field Attorney with the National Labor Relations Board, based in Subregion 36 in Portland, Oregon. She handles unfair labor practice and representational matters throughout the Pacific Northwest, but primarily in...
2026 Speaker
Gordon Lafer LERC Gordon Lafer, Professor, joined the LERC faculty in 1997. His work focuses primarily on industrial and policy research, and he has written widely on issues of economic and employment policy. In 2009-10, Lafer was on leave from the University of...
2026 Speaker
Lisa Kresge UC Berkeley Labor Center Lisa is a senior researcher in the Technology and Work Program at the UC Berkeley Labor Center, where she studies topics at the intersection of technology, labor and employment relations, and job quality. Her recent research...
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, 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...
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, 2023, 2024, 2026 Speaker, Profile
Christina Stephenson Oregon Labor Commissioner Christina Stephenson is a native Oregonian and was elected Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries in November of 2022. Prior to becoming Labor Commissioner, Christina was a small business owner and civil...
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...
2017, 2026 Speaker
Janet Gilman State Conciliator, Oregon Employment Relations Board. Janet is the State Conciliator with the Oregon Employment Relations Board (ERB) where she serves as program administrator and chief mediator for the Conciliation Services Division, providing mediation...
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, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024, 2026 Speaker, Profile
Richard G. McCracken McCracken Stemerman & Holsberry, LLP. Richard became Senior Counsel on January 1, 2023. He was the principal counsel to the Culinary Workers and Bartenders unions in Las Vegas from 1987 to 2020. He was General Counsel of the International...
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...
