Advisory Board

Brian G. Booth is a founding partner of Tonkon Torp LLP law firm where he specializes in corporate and business matters for private and public companies and nonprofit corporations. He founded the Oregon Institute of Literary Arts, created the Oregon Book Awards and the Oregon Fellowship for Emerging Writers. He also co-founded of the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission. Among his many distinguished honors are two awards he received with his wife, Gwyneth: the 1997 Tom McCall Leadership Award for contributions to Oregon's quality of life, and First Citizens of Portland for 1998. He is editor of Wildmen, Wobblies & Whistle Punks: Stewart Holbrook's Lowbrow Northwest.

Susan Castillo has been the Oregon State Superintendent of Public Instruction since 2003. From 1997 to 2002, she held office as Oregon's first Hispanic woman legislator, was vice-chair of the Oregon State Senate Education Committee.

Lawson Fusao Inada is Oregon's Poet Laureate and an emeritus professor of writing at Southern Oregon University. He is the author of five books and has edited three others. He is an American Book Award and Oregon Book Award winner and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Marcus C. Mundy is the President and CEO of the Urban League of Portland. He also serves as Principal of Mundy Consulting LLC, a healthcare compliance and financial consulting firm. He has been actively involved in several nonprofit boards, including the African American Health Coalition, the Coalition for a Livable Future, and the Madeleine School Endowment Board. Governor Kulongoski appointed Mr. Mundy to the Oregon Health Fund Board, a body dedicated to creating and implementing an affordable healthcare system to Oregonians.

Chet Orloff is Director Emeritus of the Oregon Historical Society and Adjunct Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at the Portland State University. From 1972 to 1975, he was a teacher in Afghanistan. He is the founder and editor of the journal Western Legal History. He was also senior editor of the Oregon Historical Quarterly. He has been active in museum and historical agency affairs since 1970 and now operates Oregon History Works, advising and consulting in historical interpretation and public history.

M. Lee Pelton has been president of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, since 1999. He has previously served as Dean at Colgate University, Dartmouth College, and Harvard University, where he also taught in the English Department.