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4A | WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 2021 | APPEAL TRIBUNE Capaces Leadership Institute Executive Director Jaime Arredondo speaks during a celebration for the organization’s 10th anniversary. BRIAN HAYES / STATESMAN JOURNAL Galen Rupp, a Central Catholic and Ducks star, is in his fourth Olympics. CHRIS PIETSCH/THE REGISTER-GUARD Olympians Continued from Page 1A as a member of the Portland-based Bo- werman Track Club, a group that has 10 members representing four countries heading to Tokyo. That includes Amer- icans Woody Kincaid, Grant Fisher, Ka- rissa Schweizer and Elise Cranny, who are all doubling in the 10,000 and 5,000. Ryan Crouser Sport: Track & Field, men’s shot put Oregon connection: Raised in Boring and graduated from Barlow High in Gresham The greatest men’s shot putter to ever step into the circle was raised in Boring and graduated from Barlow High in Gresham. Ryan Crouser, 28, secured his Olym- pic qualifier with gusto on June 18 when he set the world record on the opening night of the Olympic Trials at Hayward Field. Crouser threw 76-8 1 ⁄ 4 to beat the previous record of 75-10 1 ⁄ 4 , set by Randy Barnes in 1990. “It’s been such a difficult year, not only for me but for so many people around the world that it just felt special,” Crouser said after setting the record. “We’ve all worked so hard and to have so much uncertainty ... it was really sweet to be out there competing with all of my friends again and at such a high level. There’s been a lot of improvising, adapt- ing and overcoming this year.” The 6-foot-7, 320-pound Texas alum will now attempt to win his second gold medal. He was the Summer Games champ in 2016 when he set the Olympic record with a mark of 72-6 1 ⁄ 4 . Crystal Dunn CAPACES Softball’s return to the Olympic line- up gives one of the best players to ever wear an Oregon uniform her first chance to play in the Summer Games. Reed, 28, who was a Duck from 2012-2015, is the school record holder in hits (309), runs (204), stolen bases (102) and at-bats (788), and is second in doubles (42) and batting average (.392). The outfielder has been a member of the U.S. national team since 2015 and was on WBSC world championship teams in 2016 and 2018. Oregon State softball coach Laura Berg is back in the Olympics as an as- sistant. The former U.S. national team star outfielder was part of gold medal teams in 1996, 2000 and 2004. She also won silver at the 2008 Summer Games, the last time softball was an Olympic sport. Incoming Beaver Tarni Stepto, a transfer from Salt Lake Community College, is on the Australian Olympic team. Galen Rupp Sport: Track & Field, men’s mara- thon Oregon connection: Graduated from Central Catholic High School and the University of Oregon Rupp was a high school standout at Central Catholic, an NCAA champion and all-American with the Ducks and now a four-time Olympian based out of Portland. For the first time since 2008, howev- er, he’s only entered in one event, and it’s not the 10,000. “My focus in Tokyo has always been the marathon,” Rupp said June 18 after finishing sixth in the 10,000 during the Olympic Trials at Hayward Field, a race he entered because it gave him “a chance to race and compete.” Rupp competed in three straight Olympic 10,000 races, winning a silver medal in 2012, the same year he also finished seventh in the 5,000. In 2016, he doubled in the marathon and 10,000, winning a bronze medal on the road eight days after placing fifth on the track. At 35, Rupp has transitioned com- pletely to the marathon and will be a contender to medal on Aug. 8. He won the last two U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials. Sport: Women’s soccer Oregon connection: Lives in Port- land and plays professionally for the Portland Thorns Growing up, Crystal Dunn would look around at the other girls playing soccer and wonder if she belonged. In a sport that is still overwhelmingly white in the United States, there was no one who looked like Dunn. No one en- couraging her to become more technical rather than making stereotypical as- sumptions about her speed and athlet- icism. “I think it’s easy for me to just get caught up in, `Oh, I’m just happy to be here.’ And I’m like, no, no, no, no, I’m not here to survive. I’m here to thrive in this environment,” she said. “I’m trying to let people know that I’m not just here to be in the background. I’m here to be spot- lighted. I’m here to, you know, really make a big splash.” Dunn, 29, plays as the U.S. women’s national soccer team’s left back. She wants to make sure all those other little girls and young women who look around and wonder if they belong know they most certainly do. “Representation is so important. And I feel like if I had had more soccer players that looked like me growing up, I wouldn’t have had the struggles that I faced at a younger age going into the na- tional team,” Dunn said. Sport: Women’s basketball Oregon connection: Oregon State University The former Oregon State standout and WNBA draft pick is an alternate on the Canadian Olympic team. Scott played for the Beavers from 2012-16 and was the 2016 Pac-12 player of the year. She helped lead Oregon State to the Final Four as a senior. Scott was selected 17th overall by the Connecticut Sun and eventually played for the Washington Mystics. She was a member of the Canadian national team during the 2018 World Cup. Former OSU player Ali Gibson is also a member of Puerto Rico’s women’s basketball team. Scott McGough Mariel Zagunis Sport: Baseball Oregon connection: University of Oregon The former UO pitcher will be in famil- iar territory when baseball makes its Olympic return July 30 with Team USA taking on Israel. McGough has been a reliever for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of the Nippon Professional Baseball league since 2019. In 153 games for the Swallows, he has a 12-5 record, 27 saves and a 3.03 earned run average. McGough, a 31-year-old right-hander, played at Oregon from 2008-2011 and was a fifth-round selection by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2011 MLB draft. He made his MLB debut in 2016 with the Miami Marlins, and later played in the minor league systems for Baltimore and Colorado before heading to Japan. Sport: Women’s saber fencing Oregon connection: Grew up in Oregon, graduated from Valley Catholic High School in Beaverton. The most-decorated U.S. saber fenc- er of all time is a 36-year-old married mother of one from Beaverton. She’s also headed to the Olympics for the fifth time. Zagunis won individual gold in 2004 and 2008 and won a bronze team med- al in 2016. She was also fourth as an in- dividual in 2012. Her victory in Athens came when she was just 19 and made her the first U.S. Olympic fencing champion in 100 years. She’s still going strong on the world stage. Zuganis won World Cup gold in 2020 to secure her spot in Tokyo. USA Today Network reporters Nancy Armour and Emily Leiker contributed to this article. Follow Chris Hansen on Twitter @chansen_RG or email at chan- sen@registerguard.com. Janie (Takeda) Reed Sport: Softball Oregon connection: University of Oregon Jamie (Weisner) Scott Continued from Page 1A sis on community members knowing their history. “To work on tomorrow, you need to understand your past, and our past is not just in this state. Our past is very deep,” Arredondo said. “We’re very in- tergenerational. Now, these organiza- tions are run by the sons and daughters of farmworkers. We’re always connect- ed to that, we’re always trying to evoke that.” 'La casa de la abuela' The TURNO program (Talento Uni- versitario Regresando a Nuestros Orí- genes, or University Talent Returning to Our Roots), which brings high school students to CAPACES once a week to build leadership skills, complete com- munity service and plan for their fu- tures, started at the same time as CA- PACES. Karina Guzmán Ortiz, recently elect- ed to the Salem-Keizer Public Schools governing board, managed the program for about two years. “As somebody whose parents mi- grated to the U.S. and have been in the Willamette Valley for going on three decades now, I know what it’s like to grow up in this country and have your home language be one and the language at school be another and navigating a multitude of identities,” Guzmán Ortiz said. One of CAPACES’ values is to make people feel like they’re at “la casa de la abuela,” Guzmán Ortiz said, and de- scribed one of her favorite days at work when she and about 12 students worked on a farm the organization runs on a day off from school. "I remember hearing the conversa- tion about, ‘This reminds me of my abuelo’s farm in Michoacán,’ or ‘This re- minds of when I was in the cornfields when I was young,’” Guzmán Ortiz said. “To me, that was just an amazing expe- rience, to be able to bring those happy memories back.” Guzmán Ortiz also participated in the People’s Representatives training, which she said provided her a glimpse of what was needed to run a campaign and connected her to a community of supportive people. People’s Representatives teaches people the basics of serving on a board or commission, and also links that knowledge to traditional culture and history, Arredondo said. Arredondo said CAPACES is non- partisan and does not promote specific issues through its leadership develop- ment programs, but instead focuses, particularly through People’s Repre- sentatives, on values and equitable rep- resentation of Latinx people. Guzmán Ortiz, along with María Hi- nojos Pressey and Osvaldo Avila, all re- cently elected to the Salem-Keizer school board, are the first Latinos elect- ed to the board in a district where 44% of students identify as Hispanic/Latino . Across the state, where Latinx peo- ple make up about 13% of the popula- tion, they are generally underrepresent- ed on boards and commissions. Martinez Plancarte, who coordi- nates the Protecting Oregon Farmwork- ers project at CAPACES, agreed that People’s Representatives is distinct from other leadership programs. “It’s not just receiving a service, but the leadership put behind this inten- Hate Continued from Page 2A back or do not contact us again after leaving a voicemail,” Edmunson said. While the hotline recorded 1,101 re- ports of bias incidents, it received 2,001 contacts. Additionally, some callers to the hotline did not leave call-back info. The high number of calls going to voicemail points to the need for more staffing, according to the reports. Sanchagrin said the hotline is usu- ally run by a single staff member named Johanna Costa, the bias re- sponse coordinator, who cannot an- tionally to build up community. And then they go on to different organizations, but to build people up from our own commu- nities, and there’s a richness there,” Mar- tinez Plancarte said. “It doesn’t feel hier- archical with CAPACES.” A focus on community support The focus on community is why CA- PACES celebrated its 10th anniversary through a wellness day with music, painting, mental health sessions and other activities for people at its sister or- ganizations. Earlier in the day, CAPACES also host- ed an Indigenous ceremony to welcome its 10th year and a ceremony to send off the new school board members, who were sworn in Tuesday. The community emphasis also led the CAPACES Leadership Institute to sup- port and be the fiscal agent for the Ore- gon Latinx Leadership Network last year. Anthony Veliz, the founder of IZO Public Relations and Marketing, said he knew last March the pandemic would es- pecially impact Latinos, and started a network that helps the organizations unite their strengths and advance equity. One of the group's accomplishments has been providing bilingual, bicultural ther- apy sessions to Latinx fire evacuees in Phoenix and Talent, he said. Veliz, who counts among his leader- ship roles being the first Latino elected to the Woodburn school board and recently completing his second term on the state Board of Education, said he was born into the farmworker movement, and sees the Oregon Latinx Leadership Network as an extension of it. “It’s really just continuing the same work that was started decades and gen- erations ago,” Veliz said. “The whole movement, advocating for farmworkers, and now it’s expanded to immigrants and Latinos in general. Oregon Latinx Lead- ership Network is a reflection of the mod- ern-day movement.” Fulfilling their potential CAPACES’ newest offering is Ana- huac, a program that connects youth and families from farmworker and immigrant backgrounds to traditional agricultural and culinary practices. Anahuac runs a traditional kitchen, a greenhouse and a community garden, and is coordinating a summer program where the activities include preparing food using ancient techniques, learning native languages and making art. Ana- huac also has a weekly produce booth at Farmworker Housing Development Cor- poration and has plans to purchase land and operate an organic farm, Arredondo said. Anahuac represents connecting with agriculture in a different way, Arredondo said, and he is intrigued about its possi- bilities. “Anahuac provides a place to heal, to go full-circle, and I think that’s going to be important for our future, that Indige- nous wisdom, those Indigenous prac- tices, for healing and balance,” Arredon- do said. “What I want people to feel 10 years from now is not like, ‘Oh, look at what CAPACES did,’ but you just see it, what we’re all contributing to, which is basically this community fulfilling its po- tential — its cultural potential, its politi- cal potential, its economic potential.” Dora Totoian covers farmworkers through Report for America, a program that aims to support local journalism and democracy by reporting on under- covered issues and communities. You can reach her at dtotoian@statesmanjour- nal.com. swer every call immediately by herself. During Oregon’s 2021 legislative ses- sion, additional funding was allocated to the DOJ. The commission hopes that will assist the hotline in providing better coverage. Reports this year are already on track for 2021 to exceed 2020 incidents. Currently, the commission dashboard reports that the hotline has received 565 reports of bias incidents in 2021. There have been 55 reports of in- cidents in Marion County. Dianne Lugo is a reporter at the Statesman Journal covering equity and social justice. You can reach her at dlugo@statesmanjournal.com, 503- 936-4811 or on Twitter @DianneLugo.
