With twenty years of experience, Jane's specific public arts management responsibilities include comprehensive program visioning, liaison to national, regional, and local elected officials and related associations, private fundraising, management of contracts for communications, and public relations, and liaison to Maya Lin for overall project goals.

Robert spent 27 years as a career officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. As commander of the Corps' Portland District in Oregon, Friedenwald was responsible for recovery work after the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. He is currently a senior advisor with Dawson & Associates, a Washington, D.C.-based government relations firm that is exploring innovative and cooperative processes to clean up the Willamette River Superfund site in Portland, Oregon.

Aili brings cultural nonprofit management, marketing, and fundraising experience from her previous work with the Oregon Historical Society, the Oregon Historical Society Press, and the Oregon Heritage Commission. She was Senior Project Manager for Oregon 150, Governor Kulongoski's planning commission for Oregon's commemoration of statehood in 2009. She graduated from Lewis & Clark College with a degree in history, focusing on Native American and women's history.

Graduate of Portland State University, 2007 with a BA in Architecture. Her passion for the built environment started with an internship at the Spokane City Planning Department, where she learned to appreciate the meaning of place and the social impacts of our surrounding environment. Her education at PSU focused on the artistic side of architecture, and for her senior project she developed a full scale installation exploring the impact of light on the human experience of space. Additionally, she has worked on a handful of small team competitions pertaining to sustainable and/or disaster relief housing. The culmination of her experiences have led her to stand by a philosophy that art/architecture should be culturally meaningful and socially responsible. This philosophy is at the root of her interest in Confluence Project, where she started as a volunteer to become completing project manager for the Sacajawea project and project manager for the Chief Timothy project

After an exciting 30-year career as a Federal executive, Joyce traded her high heels for hiking boots.  Now, she brings her enthusiasm and leadership skill to a variety of volunteer jobs.  As a Friend of the Bird Blind, Joyce "watches over" the Bird Blind -- pulling weeds, tightening screws, picking up cigarette butts, and helping visitors.  

Connie Graham connects schools with artists and experts for the Celilo Arts Program, Gifts from Our Ancestors.  Connie taught in Oregon public schools for 20 years.  She also has a background in cartography, and worked on fire lookouts for many years.

Donna has a B.S. in Social Sciences from WSU Vancouver (1996), an M.A. in History from Portland State University (2004), and is completing a doctorate in Urban Studies at PSU. In addition to her duties for the Confluence Project, she is the Southwest Washington Outreach Coordinator for the Washington State Historical Society and she teaches history classes at WSU Vancouver and Portland State University. Much of her public history work has included research, writing, and documenting the history of Columbia Basin communities and Native people through the Center for Columbia River History. She also has extensive experience as an oral historian, having directed oral history programs and provided workshops around the region for over a decade. 

Courtney's background is in non-profit program development and outreach education. Her experience includes working as the Program Director for the Cathlapotle Plankhouse and as the New Programs Coordinator for the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry’s Outreach Department. She has a B.S. in Anthropology from the University of Colorado and M.A. in Museum Studies from the University of Nebraska.