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📍 ADDRESS
318 SE Main Street
Suites 155 & 145
Portland, OR 97214
⏰ HOURS
Mon 12-6pm
Wed 6-9pm
Thurs 12-9pm
Fri 12-6pm
Sat 12-6pm
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Jakelen Diaz
Co-Director / Studio Operations
jakelen@iprc.org
Jakelen is a Salvadoran-Guatemalan American artist and educator whose practice encompasses print media, photography, and writing. They have self-published several zines and art books such as THE AMBIGUITY OF A DEPARTURE WITHOUT A RETURN (2019), the micro-zine series Everything Is So Much (2020-21), and Nothing is Ever Created Nothing is Every Destroyed (2024). Jakelen loves karaoke and (almost) never performs the same song more than once.
Harper Quinn
Co-Director / Programs
hquinn@iprc.org
Harper Quinn is a poet who works in collage, print, correspondence, and book forms. The author of Coolth (Big Lucks Books, 2018), a full-length collection of poetry, as well as several chapbooks, she also self-publishes short-run print projects under Twin Window Editions. Their work has been supported by Literary Arts, and the Regional Arts & Culture Council.
Rosie Yanosko
Co-Director / Zine Library + Archives
rosie@iprc.org
Rosie is a librarian and archivist who's been rummaging around in libraries for as long as they can remember. They earned their MLIS from the University of Maryland in 2018 and went on to work with environmental and senatorial archives before landing at the IPRC in 2022. Rosie delights in handwritten zines, color coded spreadsheets, and watching movies with their family.
Board of Directors
Kathleen Barnett
Member
Bio coming soon..
Sarah Britt
Treasurer
Sarah Britt is an active CPA with a passion for the arts and creative processes. She focuses her volunteer work on trying to help people navigate the complex financial world.
Alleson Goldfinger
Chair
Alleson Goldfinger is a professional baker and recipe developer. She is a long-time IPRC volunteer who loves tinkering with personal projects, including making zines, risograph printing, and sewing. Alleson believes strongly that creative pursuits should be accessible to everyone and is continually inspired by Portland’s creative community.
Kacy McKinney
Member
Kacy McKinney is Artist-Scholar in Residence at the Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative at Portland State University. She's the creator of Changing the Narrative: Stories of Student Homelessness and Housing Instability (2022), and Changing the Narrative: Epilogue (2024). She recently edited and designed the book: Uprooted: Voices of Student Homelessness (2024). These community-based collaborative research projects use comics to build empathy to change how we talk, teach, and think about homelessness and poverty. She is a 2019 graduate of the IPRC certificate program in comics. She holds a PhD in geography and taught at the university level for 15 years before recently striking out as an independent scholar and artist.
Alley Pezanoski-Browne
Member
Bio coming soon…
Ann Petroliunas
Secretary
Ann Petroliunas is a secondary special education teacher focused on Language Arts and Science. She writes creative nonfiction and loves glue sticks, scissors, vintage Life magazines, and cutting up problematic old texts to make new poems. She is a 2022 graduate of PSU's Creative Writing MFA program, 2017 graduate of the IPRC certificate program in prose, has been a front desk volunteer, and now co-hosts the monthly collage night the first Sunday of every month. She and her gluesticks hope to see you there sometime!
Chealsea Slaven-Davis
Member
Chelsea is Marketing Manager at Boly:Welch, where she leads her team to inspire our community of employers and job seekers to make better, more welcoming workplaces. She's a graduate of Columbia University's MFA in Creative Writing and writes a substack called Some Sundays.
Leland Vaughan
Member
Leland Vaughan is a printmaker, illustrator, graphic designer, + educator. They co-own Outlet PDX where they get to print, teach, + nerd out about printmaking + zines to anyone who will listen. They believe print is a great equalizer in terms of access to information + mutual aid — they consider it their life’s work to make print + design as approachable as possible to everyone. Leland facilitates workshops, events, + other pop-ups alongside Outlet’s other owner + founder Kate Bingaman-Burt. They also currently teach graphic design as an adjunct professor at Portland State University.
Kate Bingaman-Burt, Designer & Associate Director of the Art+Design School at Portland State University; former IPRC Board President
Pollyanne Birge, Community Engagement & Policy Adviser to Commissioner Eudaly; former IPRC Executive Director
Eve Connell, Managing Editor of University of Hell Press; former IPRC Board Member
Niko Courtelis, Creative Director of PLAZM and Portland Stamp Company; former IPRC Board Member
Lori Damiano, Illustrator, Animator, & Educator
Chloe Eudaly, Portland City Commissioner; Co-founder of the IPRC
Kohel Haver, Partner at Swider Haver LLP
Kathy Kniep, Nonprofit Consultant
Brianne Mees, Co-founder & Co-owner of Tender Loving Empire
Alise Munson, Brand/Content Specialist at HouseSpecial, LLC
Yvonne Perez Emerson, Founder of WeMake
Jay Pontieri, Author & Educator
Ashley Sloan, Visual artist and CPA; former IPRC Board Treasurer
Andrew Stern, Software Developer; former IPRC Board President
George Thorn, Arts & Culture Consultant
Brian Tibbetts, Writer & Editor; former IPRC Interim Director
Bryan Wasetis, Co-founder of Aspect Law