CONTRIBUTOR VOICES

Susan Anderson,
Director of Portland’s Office of Sustainable Development…

Elaine Aye,
IIDA, and Alan Scott, AIA, CSI, Principals of Portland-based Green Building Services.

Alan Beard,
Principal at GBD Architects

Victoria Blake,
writer and editor for M Press/DH Press, the prose division of Dark Horse Comics

Zachary Boyers,
Director of Historic Investments, Senior Vice President, US Bancorp Community Development Corporation.

Chris Coleman (Primary Narrative),
Artistic Director of Portland Center Stage.

Pat Conrad,
Hoffman Construction

Stuart Cowan, PhD,
managing partner in Portland-based Autopoiesis, LLC

Felt Hat,
The Portland-based design firm,

Bob Gerding,
Principal of Gerding/Edlen Development Company, LLC

Randy Gragg,
Architecture and Urban Design writer for The Oregonian.

Mead Hunter, PhD,
Director of Literary and Education Programs, Portland Center Stage.

Brad Johnson
Co-Founder and Creative Director of Second Story Interactive Studios

Mel Katz
renowned Portland sculptor

Nancy Keystone, Peter Maradudin,
Nancy is a Los Angeles-based theater director/designer and visual artist. Peter’s firm, First Circle, handles both theater and architectural lighting design.

Bart King,
educator and author of An Architectural Guide to Portland

Bob Kingston,
Historian

Landry & Bogan,
Theater Designers

Brian Libby,
writer and photographer who writes the weblog Portland Architecture and has previously written for the NY Times, Oregonian, Christian Science Monitor and Metropolis.

Norris Lozano,
Chief Executive Officer and President, Portland Family of Funds, a financial services firm in Portland, Oregon that structured financing for the Armory transaction.

Don Mazziotti,
former Executive Director of the Portland Development Commission

Julie Metcalf-Kinney,
community activist and former Chair and Executive Director for the Native American Community Development Corporation

Scott Murase,
Principal of Murase Associates, a Portland-based landscape and urban design firm

J. Greg Ness (Culture),
Greg Ness is Chair of the Portland Center Stage board of directors and co-director of the Capital Campaign for the Gerding Theater at the Armory

Chet Orloff,
Director of the Pamplin Institute, adjunct professor of Urban Studies and Planning at Portland Stage University, and Director Emeritus of the Oregon Historical Society.

Blake Patsy,
Principal/Structural Engineering Manager at KPFF Consulting Engineers in Portland.

Colin Rowan,
Vice President and Transaction Manager of Portland Family of Funds

Edwin Schlossberg,
principal designer of ESI Design, LLC, a New York-based design firm

Bob Schroeder,
Associate Principal with Glumac, a LEED Accredited Professional and a registered engineer with over 25 years experience.

Todd Stern (Development)
Todd is Vice President of the Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group in New York.

Herbert F. Stevens,
partner with the national firm Nixon Peabody LLP and is the leader of the firm’s New Markets Tax Credits and Historic Tax Credits practice

John Tess,
founder and president of Heritage Consulting Group. Wearing his “other hat”, John was also the designer and fabricator of the “Fire Wall,” a 72-panel Bullseye glass sculpture in the lobby of The Gerding Theater at the Armory.

John Terry,
long-time Portland denizen and retired journalist whose career spanned 40 years at the Salem Capital Journal and The Oregonian. He writes the weekly “Oregon’s Trails” history column for The Oregonian.

Carl Talton,
Executive Chair of Portland Family of Funds.

Julie Vigeland,
former Chair of the Portland Center Stage Board of Directors and Manager of the Capital Campaign for the Gerding Theater at the Armory.

Wieden + Kennedy 12,
an advertising school housed in the Wieden + Kennedy advertising firm