About Us

Chad Bishop:  Director of Good Jobs Missoula. Good Jobs Missoula is made up of service industry workers and community organizers interested in improving conditions for workers. Website

Debby Florence: Coordinator/Facilitator. Debby has ten years of experience developing and leading successful community arts projects. She founded Slumgullion, a collaborative small press which exhibited at past Montana Festival of the Book events, where she also spoke as a panelist. Florence co-founded the Zootown Community Arts Center, and created programming for the printmaking shop. She was also program director of the Missoula Cultural Council which entailed program designing, and facilitating committees, coalition building, and coordinating events like First Night Missoula. In 2009 , Debby hosted public forums and debates about arts and the economy in Missoula, Montana, with partnership from Humanities Montana. Debby holds a degree in creative writing from the University of Montana. A performing and visual artist, she is currently pursuing a Master's degree in social work, with an emphasis on community organizing.

Jonathan Qualban: Photography instructor. See portfolio: http://www.jonathanqualben.com/ Jonathan is an accomplished dancer and musician and frequently draws on his experience to create the melodic movement in his pieces, capturing the articulate human form with all its expressiveness and delicate balance. Jonathan was raised in Brooklyn, New York. He received a B.F.A. in ceramics and sculpture at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa and has since settled in Missoula, Montana. He received a Missoula Cultural Council Trust For Artists Grant and the prestigious Montana Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Award. Jonathans work is shown in select galleries in the United States and is collected internationally.

Janet Finn, consulting scholar: Finn received her B.A. from The University of Montana. She earned her M.S.W. from Eastern Washington University and her Ph.D. in Social Work and Anthropology from the University of Michigan. Her dissertation, a cross-national multi-site ethnography of community, labor, and gender in two copper mining towns, was the basis for her first book, Tracing the Veins: Of Copper, Culture, and Community from Butte to Chuquicamata (1998). Janet currently teaches courses in social work, women's studies and international development studies. Her interests are in the areas of community practice, gender, youth, international social work, and social work theory and history. She is co-author of Just Practice: A Social Justice approach to Social Work (2008).

Work through My Lens is a project of Good Jobs Missoula

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