Oregon Humanities

OCH names Cara Ungar-Gutierrez as new executive director

Former director of education programs at Oregon Historical Society takes the helm in March 2007

14 February 2007

The board of the Oregon Council for the Humanities (OCH) has named Cara Ungar-Gutierrez as its new executive director, announced board chair Jill Powers Kirk on Monday. Ungar-Gutierrez, who most recently served as Director of Education for the Oregon Historical Society (OHS) in Portland, will officially assume her duties on March 5.
Ungar-Gutierrez will be the fourth executive director of OCH, which was established in 1971 by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and is one of five statewide partners of the Oregon Cultural Trust, a statewide plan that raises funds to invest in Oregon’s arts, humanities, and heritage. She succeeds Christopher Zinn, who left the organization last fall. She will manage a staff of seven... More