Tuesday, February 2
10:00 AM-11:00 AM | "Monsters, Real and Imagined," Ken Ash [Judy Gram], ZOOM ![]() Ken Ash has been an ICL member since 2012. |
11:00 AM-11:30 AM | "Era of Mega Fires ," Paul Hessburg [Dru Johnson], ZOOM ![]() Paul Hessburg is a landscape ecologist and wildfire scientist. He holds a PhD from Oregon State University and a BS from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Hassburg has been studying large landscapes for 41 years. He has submitted over 200 peer-reviewed research articles and is a courtesy full professor at the University of Washington, Oregon State University, Washington State University and the University of Idaho. |
11:30 AM-12:00 PM | "Blue Mountains Koala Project," Kellie Leigh [Judy Gram], ZOOM ![]() Dr. Kellie Leigh, Executive Director of Science for Wildlife, in her work with the Blue Mountains Koala Project includes applied research and building partnerships with land managers, communities and volunteers to ensure that on-ground conservation action is as effective as can be. |
Tuesday, February 9
10:00 AM-11:00 AM | "Mindful Aging: Practices to Feel Young at Every Age," Leah Burkhart [GwenEllyn Anderson], ZOOM ![]() Leah Burkhart is a Health Educator with a Master's degree in health education and nutrition. She's also a certified life coach ith the International Coaching Federation (ICF), and certified awellness coach with the National Board of Health and Wellness Coaches (NBHWC). She currently works as a health educator at the Community Health Education Center at Salem Health Hospital. When she's not busy educating individuals or groups on making healthy lifestyle changes, you can find her hiking with her pup, or curled up with her cat and a good book. |
11:00 AM-12:00 PM | "Nutrition for Aging Well," Sandra Frank [GwenEllyn Anderson], ZOOM ![]() |
Thursday, February 18
10:00 AM-12:00 PM | CANCELED - NO CLASS - "Pluto and Beyond," Dru Johnson [Dru Johnson], ZOOM. *** NOTE: Day changed from Tuesday to Thursday *** ![]() Dru Johnson has been an ICL member since 2018. Currently Co-Director of the ICL Curriculum Committee, her goal is to introduce science as a pursuit to gain an understanding of our natural world through discovery. |
Tuesday, February 23
10:00 AM-11:00 AM | "Portland Street Art," Tiffany Conklin, representing the Portland Street Art Association [Virginia Vanderbilt], ZOOM ![]() Tiffany Conklin is the Executive Director of the Portland Street Art Alliance, a non-profit organization in Portland. Tiffany has documented street and graffiti art in Portland and around the world since 2006. She holds a Bachelors in Cultursal Anthropology and Sociology, and completed a Masters of Urban Studies at Portland State University in 2011, with a focus on graffiti, ideology, and the politics of public space. |
11:00 AM-12:00 PM | "Portland Street Art - Part 2," Wayne Wallace, ZOOM ICL member Wayne Wallace has been interested in street art for almost a decade. He has become quite knowledgeable about street art in Oregon and has led many street art walks in various cities in the Willamette Valley. When Wayne began his exploration of street art, it was more common in Eugene/Springfield, but by 2015 street art was becoming more common in Portland due, in no small part, to the Portland Street Art Alliance and it has expanded in a near exponential manner ever since. Wayne has been an ICL member since January 2015.
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Thursday, February 25
10:00 AM-12:00 PM | "Indigenous Art & Artists at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art: A History of Collaboration," Rebecca Dobkins [Toni Petersen], ZOOM ![]() Rebecca Dobkins is a Professor of Anthropology at Willamette University, serving in that capacity since 1996. Before joining the faculty, Rebecca worked as a researcher at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. As a curator at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Dobkins has organized exhibitions of Native American art that have toured nationally and internationally. She is the faculty supervisor for the Chemawa Indian School-Willamette University Partnership Program. She holds a Ph.D. Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1995. M.A. English, University of California, Berkeley, 1990, and a B.A. Women's Studies, Summa cum laude, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1983. |