2022/2023 Board of Directors

• President: Jewls Griesmeyer-Krentz, Oregon State University

• Past President: Sue Jin Hee Minder, City of Portland

• President-Elect: Position Open

• Secretary: Kevin Bonomolo, Oregon State University

• Treasurer: Sarah Livengood, Portland State University

• Membership Coordinator: Position Open

• Email Communications Officer: Stacey Rainey, Western Oregon University

• Web Communications Officer: Phyllis Petteys, Portland Community College

• Conference Liaison: Lauri Evans, University of Oregon

• Continuing Education Liaison: Katilyn Eccleston, Rogue Community College

• Member-at-Large: Patricia Kepler, Portland Community College

• Member-at-Large: Felicia Arce, Clackamas Community College

Board of Director Bios

Jewls is the Assistant Director of Accessible Education Services at Willamette University. Primarily at Pacific Northwest College of Art, she oversees disability services and institutional accessibility efforts. She enjoys finding creative and collaborative ways to promote equity and inclusion for students and university communities. Before finding her home at Willamette University, she was at Linfield University School of Nursing in 2022 and had been an Access Counselor and Consultant at the Disability Resource Center at Portland State University for over nine years. Jewls serves as the President of the Board of Directors of the Oregon Affiliate of the Association of Higher Disability (ORAHEAD) and served in various board positions for over six years. Jewls mentored new(er) disability services professionals as part of the Association of Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD) Start Academy for new(er) disability services professionals. She is a frequent presenter at both regional and national conferences. Jewls received her Masters in Rehabilitation Counseling from PSU in 2008 and is a PhD candidate in Adult and Higher Education at Oregon State University. Her doctoral work focuses on international and immigrant students with disabilities, disability identity, and intersectionality. Prior to coming to Portland State University, Jewls had a private counseling practice and served as a commissioner on the city of Portland Commission on Disability. In her spare time, Jewls enjoys the outdoors, art, and theater, especially when shared with her family including her wife, 2 adult kids, and an old, lovable dog named, Rizzo.

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Sue is the director of accessible education services at Willamette University. In this role, she partners with faculty and key university administrators on institutional policy and best practices to create a college environment that is inclusive of students with disabilities. She holds a master’s degree in counseling psychology and vocational rehabilitation counseling and is the current president of the Oregon Association on Higher Education and Disability (ORAHEAD); and maintains professional memberships in both the state and national affiliates of this organization. Minder has more than twelve years of progressive responsibility for promoting disability access in higher education, including collaborating with marketing and communications and information technology services on improving digital access. She also serves as a freelance Accessibility Technology Associate for Portland Community College and has over two years of experience testing digital access on a variety of websites and applications in this role. Her service delivery philosophy is to create transformative disability access through education and strategic planning for long-range equity, empowerment, and innovation.

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Bio coming soon.

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