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Dress for Success Executive Director Barbara Attridge addresses supporters at Thursday’s grand
opening of the group’s new Patricia Whiting Career Center at 1532 N.E. 37th Ave, Suite B. The
nearly 15-year-old organization helps disadvantaged women find employment by providing them
professional clothing and job skills free of charge.
Improving Lives
Dress for Success
expands
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career center debut
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T he P ortland O bserver
provided business-appropriate cloth­
ing, taking one of the big financial
burdens off the job-hunting table.
The clothes are donated by the com­
Dress for Success, a northeast munity.
Portland program designed to help
With the new career center at 1532
disadvantaged women break into the N.E. 37th Ave., Suite B, clients now
corporate world with style, celebrated have access to career search and job
the debut of their brand new Patricia retention services in addition to indi­
Whiting Career Center on Thursday. vidualized assistance with resumes
Low income women who utilize
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the services of the non-profit are
Driving a Social Agenda at the Bus Project
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a d v o c a c y g ro u p
by D onovan
M . S mith
T he P ortland O bserver
C lassifieds
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There’s a new driver at the Bus,
well at least a new leader. The social
justice and activist group, the Bus
Project, recently named Tara Sulzen
as their new executive director.
“I think at its core the Bus is a
leadership development program. It
gives young leaders the tools they
need to make change,” Sulzen says.
The pon-partisan and non-profit
organization, founded in 2002, or­
ganizes young people across the
state to engage in voting, volun­
teering, and campaigning around
issues young people care about like
prison reform, tuition equity, and
voter access.
Sulzen, 28, was once a summer
fellow with The Bus Project’s fea­
ture program Politicorps, which
equips young folks with hands-on
experience around grassroots orga­
nizing. She then went on to become
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D onovan M . S mith /T he P ortland O bserver
Tara Sulzen drives the social justice agenda at The Bus Project.
She is the non-profit’s new executive director.
outreach director for the land use
organization 1000 Friends of Oregon.
Sulzen hopes to build on and con­
tinue the group’s commitment to is­
sues around social justice, something
she thinks is only enhanced with an
increasingly diverse and socially
aware generation.
“The millennial generation is
more diverse than any generation of
the past,” she says. “The work of
T he Bus is only p o ssib le by
strengthening our existing relation­
ships with organizations rooted in
communities of color, like the Urban
League o f Portland and C ausa
(Oregon’s migrant rights organiza­
tion), and making sure we don’t
stray from our original mission of
justice for all people.”
For more information, visit the
Bus Project website busproject.org.