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At Portland State we want to

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live our motto, let knowledge serve the

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city.

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And in my role in The Office of the President my goal is

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to bring in as many voices to campus as possible.

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To think about the future to plan for our

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future and be mindful.

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Of the ways that we will be impacted by the changing

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Workforce.

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By climate changes and climate Justice.

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And also thinking about the higher education Pipeline and the

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exponential increase of Latino Latina

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students coming to Portland State

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University and those who want to seek their

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continuing education.

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Is really important to us. We want to be of service to our community

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and we want those students to feel like PSU is

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their home and a place that they can come and achieve their

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educational.

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dreams

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on June 14th and 15th 2022 Portland State

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University gathered Community leaders PSU staff

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and faculty and student Scholars for the inaugural

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PSU Latina Futures Community competing.

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As part of the process we ask session participants about climate Justice

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the changing Workforce and the higher education pipeline.

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How do you think climate change is most likely to impact the future

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of our city? And what are the supports and tools communities most

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need to prepare for it?

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I think climate change is already impacting so

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many facets of our community and we

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know that our hint they're most disapportionately impacted

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because we're Farm Workers or construction

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workers for home care workers. We need a just

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transition. We need creativity amongst leaders

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to make sure that we're safe that

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we have resiliency planning and that ultimately we're

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meeting our climate and energy goals

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I believe that climate change affects those most who

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are part of a lower social economic income as a

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community. We need to ensure that they have the needed Aid to

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make it through the extremities of climate change that we've

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seen so far and no ones that we will continue to see

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I think climate change is going to affect our city in two major

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ways one. We're going to be seeing major weather events, like

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the heat tone. We saw last year that are going to be impacting people. Especially

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our most vulnerable people the most I think

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we're also going to be seeing a realization that we can't continue to

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be driving in our cars by ourselves and we're

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going to see more need for transit for fast transit

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for people to have walk and biking options and I

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think that communities are going to need

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to have the resources the Investments systemically so

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that it's convenient for them to switch out of their cars and

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that they have the communication the resources in

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the languages and the ways that they need

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to hear information so that they're aware of what they can do to protect themselves in

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their community.

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I think as a climate change starts to

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you know, keep evolving what

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we're gonna see here in the city of Portland is

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we're gonna see communities begin to migrate to

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areas such as Portland that have accessible resources

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to live such

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as accessible water will we

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have cooling centers when it gets too hot? And

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so we're gonna see more people coming

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to the city of Portland. I believe

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that the resources we need in order to really

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support our community not just thinking

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about Portland but really elevating the voices of the

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rural area communities and seeing what

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we can do to support them listening

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to their ways of being and trying

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to find ways to help them through

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climate change.

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I think that in our community there are a lot of people that are

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more prepared for climate change than there are in other communities I

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think something about

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living in the margins

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living in maybe homes where we

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have food and security or we are

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low income. We are more Adept

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and adaptable to climate

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change and I believe

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that our community holds the answer to how

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our whole state can respond to

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climate challenges in the future.

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We are Innovative. We are hardworking.

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We're dedicated to our families and

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our communities and I believe that we hold the

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answer to how we can create a just future

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around climate for our

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communities here in Portland and throughout the state and our region.

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How do we ensure that Latina Student Success educational attainment

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and Workforce training that adequately prepares our students

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for a changing Workforce?

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We need really understand the the barriers

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that are preventing our students from attaining

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education from attaining proper

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value that they bring to one none and not

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having them understand the pathways that they

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can pursue and what is really

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their passion of traditional education or

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a high-skilled training Workforce

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training program when we eliminate those barriers.

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And they have the opportunity to be successful be specific

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and be courageous of addressing those challenges for

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our students. I think adequately funding

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the programs and resources that

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help Latinas students navigate the educational and

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career system is most beneficial just making

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sure that those resources are up to date

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and accurate with the changing Workforce is very important and making

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those tools accessible to the community.

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also be welcome and retained at

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universities. And so making sure that universities like

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PSU like UFO and

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Oregon State University and all the

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universities not only in Oregon but across the state are welcoming

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institutions that are

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inclusive institutions and that they welcome

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not only the students but their families

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I think it's critical to look at education.

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speed of technology. So we

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need to make sure that we're matching what students are learning

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with what real world applications could be.

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Helping ensure that our latini students will be

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successful in attaining careers. Once

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they finish training or post secondary education.

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post-secondary higher ed system to ensure that

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they have access and it's affordable that we

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retain students in school and that we work in collaboration with

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industry to ensure

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that our students have a job once they've graduated

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for changing Workforce and ensure Workforce

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training. We need to support our

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Latina students and advocating for a fair wages

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for the linguistic capabilities. It is usually

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said that a bilingual speaker is a two-for-one special

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because you can rely on their linguistic

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capabilities without having to compensate for that additional labor.

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Technology is significantly changing the way we work.

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What do we need to prepare a communities? What is

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the role of technology and Tech Justice in the

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future of a healthy positive, Portland?

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it's been such a powerful tool that has

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democratized a lot of the way we distribute information

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share information or stay connected. There

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is absolutely no doubt also in my mind that this crowdsourcing

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of knowledge as well as technology

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as well as anything that we want to share has enhanced

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the way we advance the progress

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of our communities in so many ways socially technology

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wise education, but that cannot

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be possible if many the great majority in the planet

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do not have access to that internet access

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that I mentioned earlier and therefore, you know technology is

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absolutely nothing if it is not connected so investing those

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resources will be significantly

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important for us to make a better place in the future.

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I think technology has ever so evolving and people

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need help to keep up with

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it. Whether that means programs working one-on-one or

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through other sorts of programs that can help people keep up.

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available to everyone to accommodate to

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everyone.

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a lot of work to make sure that our communities are

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not being left behind in the digital divide and

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making sure that our students are walking

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away knowing what those barriers and

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challenges are and that they are advocating for

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resources to close the

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digital divide.

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What do you feel is most necessary to create faith and Community institutions

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including boating and democracy itself?

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of faith and all of the different institutions here in

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the United States. They haven't felt that

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they supported them in the ways that they need to be supported economically

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financially in their

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faith and their politics and one

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of the ways that that can happen is to begin

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to think about the saying of nothing about

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us without us. And so, you know, that kind

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of trust is gonna build at the speed

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of trust and one of the ways that we can get people

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to start to build that trust is that those particular places

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are led by our community like

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having communities who

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raise folks to be leaders to run for politics to

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be in public office and to teach each other how to

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do that so that they can have success and running for

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our future political office to be on a commission to be

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on a board to be in all those areas where the decisions are

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made and to be at the table. So I think the more that we

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have people who represent us who look like us who understand

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our life the more likely we're going to be able to feel like we're

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being able to make a change.

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In our communities and our state and our country and that

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democracy works for us.

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I believe that transparency and accountability are essential

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for creating faith and Community institutions like

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voting and democracy, but most importantly

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I believe that democracy has to exist for

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us to have faith in it. We have to trust

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that our elected officials will defend our

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right to be here and to pursue happiness.

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I think it's important for Community organizations

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to to be trusted

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but they recognize that diversity and they

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build those ridges with other people that

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seem that that face similar operations to those the

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Latino.

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The way most people who are undocumented view

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the government. It's

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this attitude of trying to stay invisible as much

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as they can the exact opposite of Engagement.

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if you're not documented you're gonna be penalized.

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How do you create trust when?

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The first step somebody takes to reach out. We're

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going to punish them.

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Where do you think Community engagement is strongest

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in Portland? Where is it less strong. Why?

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What could be most helpful to change that?

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Where we see the strongest Community engagement here

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in Portland is in our communities and when

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I say in our communities, I mean in our classrooms

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nonprofit in our community-based organizations where

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people are talking to each other engaging

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in in culture and and supporting

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one another.

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More investment in community-based organizations,

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especially Community Color serving

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organizations to really deeply invest in

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the community directly oftentimes people

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are interested in engaging in advocacy

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or Civic life, but they really need wraparound

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support to help get Transportation child

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care.

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Food help with their employment a number

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of things so that they can be really active and engaged in our

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Once once we know that that we

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are wanted once our families know that their opinions

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matter and that their experiences are important to us. They

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are more than happy to engage with us and to sit

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to partner with us and be part of solutions and be

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part of the services that we can provide to our community.

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the Portland Tri-County area?

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very transactional is no relationship building often

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time is interpreters.

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Needing to do an Outreach.

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To connect with the community and that's very transactional. So

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what is missing is building relationships the Latina

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Community. We enjoy building Community

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around family food with the

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places where kids go to school what is misinformed

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the overarching population or communities

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around parliamentary areas those individuals.

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They want to engage the Latina Community. They need

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to come in the mindset that they need to

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be a relationship. They're overlasting.

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Community engagement requires the

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two entities come together to collaborate collaborate in

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a place of trust and in a

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place of mutual benefits, there's reciprocity.

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I believe the Latino Community has a very strong relationship

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with non-profit organizations.

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Primarily because they come together to advocate for

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the needs of the community and there's

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a level of trust between Community organizations, especially nonprofits.

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and the Latino community

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where I see that there is a lack of

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Engagement. It's with the business community.

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I attribute that to the fact that there is less

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representation in the business community of the

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Latino community.

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And where you do not see yourself in that organization. You

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are less likely to engage.

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I think it starts by helping our

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students access mentorship opportunities, so

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Creating a comprehensive approach to how they learn about

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the different opportunities. So myself as a

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first generation college graduate. I didn't

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know anything about city government or Regional government in

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the various positions. That one can

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hold.

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it is a study by Russia from Stanford

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that states that he

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were able to purse students as early

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escape to 12 when mentors

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Share the same cultural identity the shared shirts and

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background. We will be able to quadruple the number of Engineers

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and scientists that we have in the country.

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The other thing that is amazing about Latinos students that I

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encounter at Portland State is how well

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they manage new situations new work

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environments environments that maybe our families did

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not know. So for example, first gen students navigate higher

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ed when their parents maybe do

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not go to college or university either here in the states or

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their parents didn't go to college or universities as

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immigrants in their countries of origin. So negotiating new

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work environments and educational environments is

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quite an asset. It's frustrating for some

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of our students to negotiate such spaces, but it is an asset to

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even be here.

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you are