Staff | Furlandia

Atso Fox – 2013 Convention Chair

Atso has been a Portland native his entire life, growing up in all the best low rent neighborhoods littered throughout the PDX metro area. A fox that has been told he is “too young and ambitious for his own good,” his unhinged drive to move forward is what keeps him from turning into a slothful, unmovable person who would otherwise never leave the internet.

Chase B. – Game Room Coordinator

Chase is a graduate student at Portland State University studying urban planning, which he says is just like playing SimCity, except it’s nothing like that. He’s been into furry since 2001, but has only been involved in the Portland furry community for a year and a half. Chase is a founding member and the sitting treasurer of the Portland Collegiate Furs.

Saphy – Marketing & Publicity Manager

Richard Thomas, or Saphy has been an active leader since his return to the community in September of 2010. He is the head member of The PDXFurs Group, a non-profit association that organizes and plans events for the local community. When he is not wrangling cats, he focuses on his career in the field of litigation and finance.

Hazard – Creative Director; Forum Admin

This petite Fennec Chimera is a lover of all forms of beauty. In 2007, Hazard graduated from The Center for Advanced Learning with a concentration in Graphic Design and Information Technology. She went on to study Illustration and Communication Design at Pacific Northwest College of Art, where she graduated in 2012 with a Bachelors Degree in Fine Art. Her work has been featured in galleries around Portland, Oregon, but it is her online presence, and her experience working as a staff member and contributor on various virtual avatar and pet site communities for over the past decade, that she is proud enough to wiggle and get giddy about. She is a Portland native, and enjoys traveling between her home city, Japan, and Canada. One of her great pleasures is to inspire emerging artists, and to show them that, regardless of whether they write, paint, draw, design, or perform, they can, at any age, publish their work and begin a career in art. Playful, childish, and idealistic as she may be, Hazard intends to make the world more pretty, even if she has to sink her teeth into it in order to gain aesthetic compliance. She sincerely hopes to make your stay at Furlandia a great one, so feel free to stop by Creation Station to scribble and chat with her!

Jaden – Tech Department Lead

Jaden is a Portland-born cheetah who has been a reclusive member of the furry fandom for over ten years. He’s a computer scientist who doesn’t seem to know the meaning of the words “free time.”

When not working or studying or sleeping (because let’s face it, what’s more near and dear to a cheetah’s heart than sleep?) he’s out riding his motorcycle across Oregon or working on various coding projects that have no hope of going anywhere. But at least they’re fun!

His preferred method of troubleshooting is to look angrily at the computer until it stops misbehaving. This works nine times out of ten.

Jaeli – Publications; Registration Desk Lead

Jaeli is a longtime Furry, but only realized she is one over the last couple of years. Better late than never, right? She’s a writer, costume designer, and lover of clean Furry art. She’s been going to general fandom conventions since the early 1990’s, and has been involved in staff/committee for Orycon since she moved here in 2006. While taking a break from Orycon, she’s jumping right in to helping Furlandia get off the ground.

In her spare time (wait, what’s “spare time?” I don’t know the meaning of that phrase ~J), she blogs occasionally, designs and sews costumes and other random articles of clothing, writes and edits fiction, does web design and creates the covers of some of her books. Oh yeah, she works and goes to school part time as well.

Her ‘sona is from one of her yet-unpublished books and looks a lot like a white Serval, but with some different markings. She’s a Magehunter, among other things.

Smurf – Dealer’s Den Coordinator

Bio coming soon!

Signet – Hospitality Manager

Signet has been in the fandom since 2006 with Further Confusion being his first furry convention in 2007. He has been going to FC every year since and volunteered for staff by working Con-Ops for two years. Baking is his main hobby, but loves food in general, and enjoys showing off weird flavor combinations and techniques.

Sumanitu Taka – Community Ambassador

Born and raised in Salem, OR, Sumanitu has been involved with the Northwest furry community for more than 10 years. An avid con-goer, fursuiter, snowboarder, board gamer, equal parts outdoor enthuiast and nerd, and full time wolf. He is committed to making Furlandia, Oregon’s first hotel hosted furry con, the best con it can be.

Triss Winterdusk – Volunteer Coordinator

Portland’s purple Husky! Born a Portland area native and entering his third decade of life, Triss has spent the majority of that time living in proximity to this wonderfully strange city, with brief stints living in Michigan, Montana, and Missouri. He’s “officially” been a furry since 2000, has been part of the Portland community one way or another since 2003, and finally began to host events since 2011. He’s also been known as Triss D’Vichy on Furcadia, having been part of it off and on since 2000. Known as Shaun when it comes to work, school, or business outside of the Furry world, he is currently attending college full time and working towards a degree in the medical field as a Radiology Technologist. Triss is also an acting officer of the nonprofit PDXFurs. He enjoys traveling, Furry conventions, reading, a good party, horror movies, string instruments, and is one of the rare Heavy Metal fans in the fandom with a taste for the classics and European genres. Joining Furlandia as Volunteer Coordinator, Triss is excited to see Portland attempt to live up to it’s potential as a major player in the fandom.

You can find his Twitter here; he has a Furaffinity account as well.

25:30 Undertakings – Operations & Admin

25:30 Undertakings produces alt-pop-culture events in & beyond Portland Metro for unapologetic superfans, including the Rose City Steampunk Film Festival; GEAR Con, Portland’s steampunk convention; and the world’s premiere werewolf fan gathering, HOWL CON.