Lifelong Learning Institute
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About the Instructors

Beverly Walker got interested in genealogy at the age of 12 and she has been hooked on it ever since. Today she coordinates several groups in the Portland that are doing genealogy research and she teaches for the Oregon Historical Society. Beverly is the coordinator of the Portland Legacy Users' Group and has been a member of the New England Genealogical Society, the National Genealogical Society, the Missouri Genealogical Society, the Ohio and Oklahoma genealogical societies and the Genealogical Forum of Oregon. Her research has taken her to New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Virginia, Missouri, Illinois, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Washington, many others states and Europe.

Amoris Walker is the founder of Sunflower Productions, a digital video company in Corvallis that produces videos of all genres, but with a particular focus on environmental and social causes. Amoris has worked as co-writer, editor and videographer for 12 years and two years of that time at Western Oregon University. Amoris has produced several documentaries including one to be released in 2009 about the 150-year history of Corvallis. Her work on the Oregon Artistic Heritage series earned the Oregon Heritage Award in 2007.

Kathleen Braza, M.A., is a counselor and an expert on death and dying issues. She has more than 20 years of experience working in the field and she has studied with Dr. Elisabeth Kubler Ross. Her workshops, offered all over the country, have covered topics ranging from grief and death to unfinished business and healing for the healer. She has a master’s degree from Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree from Wayne State University.

Ann Staley, like all Oregonians, has a deep knowledge of gray skies. She is a Keystone State immigrant, now retired from teaching high school writing and literature. Ann worked with teachers, counselors, school administrators and community writers at the Northwest Writing Institute, Lewis & Clark Graduate School, for eighteen years. She is a co-founding editor of Fireweed: A Journal of Oregon Poetry, a board member of Friends of William Stafford, a winner of many teaching awards, and an essayist who writes about the natural world.

For more information about the Lifelong Learning Institute, contact Alan Koch by e-mail or phone at 503.399.2520.

Updated October 29, 2008 by Web Servoces.