Make You Think, Inc is a nonprofit that provides adults with accessible opportunities for education in science, history, and other related areas. We keep lifelong learning available, accessible, and fun.
Make You Think, Inc is a nonprofit aiming to provide adults with accessible opportunities for education in science, history, and more. It was established by a small group of long-time volunteers working to put on science lectures for many organizations.

These volunteers want to ensure programs exist to keep lifelong learning available, accessible and fun.

Board of Directors

Scott Frey
President

It’s critical that the general public is involved with science and feels science is important

Problem solver and technology consultant by trade, Scott has served on a number of boards for a variety of nonprofits over the years:

  • Madison Area Club of Printing House Craftsmen, Vice President (1989) – brought together an early digital printing trade show
  • Wisconsin Off Road Bicycling Association from 1994-2005 – worked with Chris Kegel to form entity from 50 members to near 5000 and 14 chapters across the state
  • International Mountain Bike Association State Representative from 1996-1999
  • Governors Trail Council 1997
  • Columbia Area Mountain Bike Advocates Director at Large

Volunteer for other organizations – most notably and continually since 2008 – for OMSI, Nerd night, and then Science On Tap – to bring science education to an adult audience.

Sam Louke
Vice President

You can’t trust atoms,
they make up everything

Sam is a retired Chemical Engineer from the high-tech industry and has been volunteering at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, for OMSI Science Pubs, and for Via Productions’ Science on Tap for many years. In addition, he has played the trombone since 5th grade; is the current board president and a performer with the Oregon Symphonic Band; and plays in orchestras and jazz bands around the region.

Travis Peters

Treasurer

Enjoy life and pursue
goals with vigor

Travis is back in school after 20+ years of accounting and operations in hospitality and enjoying learning many new things in accounting, human resources, and systems science.  Raised by a scientist and a psychiatric nurse, he can’t stop analyzing whatever is on his mind.  In his not-so-copious free time, he is a lover of games, science fiction, and fantasy, and he also serves on the board of Oregon Science Fiction Conventions Inc. as Treasurer to promote that passion.

Rita Nygren

Secretary

If you don’t write it down,
it didn’t happen.

Rita’s specific favorite dinosaur is SUEtheTrex, who live tweets D&D games from the Chicago Field Museum, but she’s also recently learned about several species of dwarf herbivore dinosaurs that evolved when the European continent had turned into island ecologies and wants to know more and feels she can’t possibly be the only one.

Volunteering with science lecture series continuously since 2008, through OMSI and Via Productions, she also has a day job as a technical project manager and data geek where she learns new tools pretty continuously. This might be a character flaw. Previous non-profit experience includes:

  • Special Projects Director and Newsletter Editor for the Wisconsin Off Road Bicycling Association –  running a quarterly print newsletter for member accomplishments and managing several trail-building projects, including Blue Mounds State Park
  • State Rep for Wisconsin for the International Bicycling Association, negotiated with state land managers and brought education to local volunteers on trail building and bike patrol
  • Director at Large for Wisconsin Bike Federation, doing advocacy for bicycle access and infrastructure
  • 500 Women Scientists PDX Podleader, advocating for women in science

Annicca Christine

Volunteer minion

Annicca is a data-driven and solution-focused professional with over a decade of experience in legal analysis and data science. She is currently pursuing a Master of Applied Data Science for Business at Portland State University specializing in analytics, organizational change, databases, and digital transformation. Annicca also holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, with focused studies in motivation, cognition, and cognitive neuroscience.

Annicca enjoys everything neuroscience related, especially human behavior, development and learning. When she isn’t nerding out on neuroscience, she enjoys hiking, running, paddleboarding, reading, playing video games, and hanging out with her two cats. 

Marti Dell

Solicitor Minion

Marti Dell has been practicing law for more than twenty-five years in the areas of real estate, business, and estate planning law. Marti’s experience includes working at two title companies, at small law firms, as a sole practitioner, at a large law firm in Florida as a real estate paralegal, and as in-house counsel.  Marti has lived in a variety of places around the world and enjoys gardening, genealogy, traveling, and living life to the fullest.

Stephen Perry

Flight Director

Bias is a way in which we systematically get things wrong

 -Stephen Cave

Stephen Perry is a technology enthusiast, passionate about all things Apple. With a background in theatre systems design and network engineering, Stephen volunteered as a minion for the NerdNite, and now Science On Tap, lecture series. He is also an FAA certified Civil Remote Aviator with UA(G) rating, and enjoys flying camera-equipped sUAS (drones) to capture the Pacific Northwest from new perspectives.

Chelsea Schuyler

Web Minion

Ask me about my vow of silence

Chelsea has provided web content services to various (often science-supporting) clients for near a decade. For Science on Tap, she finds and wrangles speakers, coordinates shows with partners, handles marketing and writes the trivia. Her personal passion is native plants and their communities, and volunteers prolifically with wildlife conservation, eco-restoration, and gave up most of her social media clients to work at a native plant nursery in Washougal instead.

She has a degree in biology from Lewis & Clark, loves board games, documentaries, and felines.

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