Jordon Zardinejad grew up in the Portland area and attended Oregon State University where he earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in 2002 and a Master of Business Administration in 2003. After working in manufacturing, production, and marketing, Jordon began working in higher education as a graduate admission counselor and has over fifteen years of experience in higher education graduate admissions and program coordination. Jordon has served on equity & diversity, emergency planning & critical incident management, and strategic planning task forces.

Pablo received his B.S. in mathematics, M.S. in statistics, and his Ph.D. in mathematical sciences from Portland State University. His dissertation studied necessary conditions for stability of vehicular formations with multi-mass linear arrays. While in graduate school, Pablo was nominated to attend the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) in Berkeley, California where he studied electronic structure theories.

Christopher Boucher is the author of the novels "How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive" (Melville House, 2011), "Golden Delicious" (Melville House, 2016), and "Big Giant Floating Head" (Melville House, 2019). He’s also the editor of Jonathan Lethem's "More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers" (Melville House, 2016). Chris received his MFA in Fiction from Syracuse University in 2002, and he currently teaches in the English Department at Boston College; he’s also the managing editor of Post Road Magazine.

Prior to joining OSU-Cascades, Rebecca was an associate professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. She also worked as a R&D engineer at Agilent Technologies designing test and measurement equipment and as a senior engineer responsible for performing thermal analysis of laser cooling techniques at Directed Energy Solutions.

David’s interactive teaching approach and incorporation of experiential learning empowers students to advance their communication skills in Spanish and create meaningful connections in the local community and the world. His scholarship focuses on the use of literature in the acquisition of Spanish as well as the linguistic diversity in Spain.