Jay is a recent PSU grad with a BS in economics.  He is returning to campus for post-bac classes while laboring through the law school application process.  Watch out for Jay in English courses this year.

Mary King is a professor in the Economics department at PSU. She teaches courses on topics ranging from: Economics of Labor Markets; Labor Institutions and Policies; Women in the Economy; Economics of Race and Ethnicity ; History of Economic Thought; Principle of Macroeconomics. Her research interests are currently in studies of the Dynamics of Ethnicity and Gender in the Labor Market and Economy. Mary took a Chiron course many years ago and is excited to be a member of the Chiron committee.

Dr. Fischer received his Ph.D. from Yale. He specializes in language teaching, educational technology, language teacher training, and the interaction of science and technology with literature and language. His publications and projects are listed in detail on his personal website (http://web.pdx.edu/~fischerw/). They include textbooks for German and Spanish, computer-based language courses, a multilingual talking pictorial dictionary, software activities for listening and writing, a book about German science fiction, and miscellaneous publications about language, literature and culture. The computer-based language resources can be used from the "CosmoLingua" website. Career highlights include originating and writing the proposals for the Department's Pew and Faculty Vitality grants (2001), delivering the keynote address at the annual convention of the Japanese National Computer Users' Association (1997), and creating the first computer-based language course at PSU (1993-). Dr. Fischer is an amateur musician, with several appearances in Portland Opera productions; he also builds fine furniture and boats.

Leah is a Fine Arts and Psychology major at PSU and an Assistant Manager at the Farmer's Market. She enjoys painting, g-tar, reading, dancing, laughing, playing with plants, camping, hiking.

Harrell Fletcher has worked collaboratively and individually on a variety of socially engaged, interdisciplinary projects for over a decade. His work has been shown at SF MoMA, the de Young Museum, The Berkeley Art Museum, and Yerba Buena Center For The Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area, The Drawing Center, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Sculpture Center, The Wrong Gallery, and Smackmellon in NYC, DiverseWorks and Aurora Picture show in Houston, TX, PICA in Portland, OR, CoCA and The Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, WA, Signal in Malmo, Sweden, Domain de Kerguehennec in France, and The Royal College of Art in London. Fletcher exhibits in San Francisco and Los Angeles with Jack Hanley Gallery, in NYC with Christine Burgin Gallery, in London with Laura Bartlett Gallery, and Paris with Gallery In Situ. He was a participant in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. In 2002 Fletcher started Learning To Love You More, an ongoing participatory web site with Miranda July. He is the 2005 recipient of the Alpert Award in Visual Arts. His current traveling exhibition The American War originated in 2005 at ArtPace in San Antonio, TX, and traveled in 2006 to Solvent Space in Richmond, VA, White Columns in NYC, The Center For Advanced Visual Studies MIT in Boston, MA, and PICA in Portland, OR.

Bria is majoring in Psychology and plans to attend graduate school for Neuropsychology. She is currently researching relationships between self-esteem and seasonal illnesses, and is interested in furthering research experience in the area of human cognitive neuropsychology and related fields. She sees Chiron Studies as a novel and beneficial opportunity for students to challenge themselves in areas of their interest while diversifying and expanding the range of available courses. Outside school, Bria enjoys running, photography, beadweaving, her two crazy cats, and travel.

Hannah moved to Portland last September to start her MFA in Social Practice at PSU. She is originally from the far reaches of Northwestern Canada where she grew up on a set of skis. Recent projects and research include: an interest in the evolution of feminist aesthetics, infiltrating the institution with paper maché and pareidolic imagery. In the past she has developed her art practice as a snow shoveler, hairdresser, tropical stylist, sports jock, exotic vacationer and amateur alchemist. She works individually and collaboratively with a soft spot for free and found materials.