Humanists of Greater Portland Meetup

# Whole Body Donation Program at OHSU

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Live presentation at Friendly House. Whole body donors play a vital role in training future and practicing healthcare professionals, while also supporting scientific discovery and innovation. Tamara Ostervoss, director of the OHSU Body Donation Program and nationally recognized leader in the field, will describe the donation process, donor eligibility considerations, and the ethical standards that guide the respectful care and use of donated bodies. She will also address common questions and misconceptions, explain how donor gifts directly impact healthcare outcomes, and outline the program's commitment to honoring donors and supporting their families.

Programs are presented in four broad areas relevant to Humanism:

• Human Well-Being
• Science and Reason
• Secularism
• Humanities, Culture, and Morality

Sunday HGP programs: for the latest info, follow the link below to the main HGP website home page, find the "Next Speaker" announcement on the left; for past programs and future speakers and activities, click on the "Calendar" button, upper left of that page:

# The Story of Labor and Farmworkers in the Pacific Northwest

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Live presentation at Friendly House. Friends of Seasonal and Service Workers (FSSW) will talk about the history of labor and farmworkers in the Pacific Northwest, how we got to the point we are at now and how people can get involved in changing these conditions. FSSW is a support effort for membership organizations of service workers, temporary workers, farm workers and others who are low income, uniting to end poverty conditions. They are 100% volunteer run and independent of government funding.

Programs are presented in four broad areas relevant to Humanism:

• Human Well-Being
• Science and Reason
• Secularism
• Humanities, Culture, and Morality

Sunday HGP programs: for the latest info, follow the link below to the main HGP website home page, find the "Next Speaker" announcement on the left; for past programs and future speakers and activities, click on the "Calendar" button, upper left of that page:

# Inside Out - Unmaking Prison Walls

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Live presentation at Friendly House. This presentation will share insights from the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, through which college students take classes inside a prison along with incarcerated classmates. The presenter is Reiko Hillyer, a history professor whose Inside-Out class was documented in the short film, "Classroom 4." Reiko will explore her experience teaching the class and making the film, describing the transformative effects of mutual dialogue and vulnerability. She will also put the class into broader historical context, demonstrating through her scholarly research that the exile of incarcerated people is a recent phenomenon.
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Reiko Hillyer is Professor of History Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon and an instructor with the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, which brings college students inside a local prison to study the history of crime and punishment in an integrated class alongside incarcerated students. She holds a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University and a PhD in History from Columbia University, with published research and teaching specialties in the history of the American South, public memory, the built environment, and mass incarceration. Her most recent book, A Wall is Just a Wall: The Permeability of the Prison in the 20th Century United States (Duke, 2024), which was inspired by her teaching in the Inside-Out program, has been featured on CNN and NPR. In 2021, the Oregon Community Foundation awarded Reiko $75,000 to produce a devised theater piece, generated by her Inside-Out students at Columbia River Correctional Institution, at a local professional theater. The piece, "I Think of You," premiered in 2023 at Portland Center Stage. A short documentary about her Inside-Out class, “Classroom 4,” directed by Eden Wurmfeld, is now streaming on PBS and abroad through Al Jazeera, and it was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary. Reiko is a native New Yorker who has come to love Portland.

Programs are presented in four broad areas relevant to Humanism:

• Human Well-Being
• Science and Reason
• Secularism
• Humanities, Culture, and Morality

Sunday HGP programs: for the latest info, follow the link below to the main HGP website home page, find the "Next Speaker" announcement on the left; for past programs and future speakers and activities, click on the "Calendar" button, upper left of that page:

# Authoritarianism and the Lure of Certainty

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