February 26, 2020
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Edwards to Lead Clark College
PCC Cascade
leader hired
for new post
The Clark College Board of
Trustees Friday named Dr. Karin
Edwards, the current president of
the Cascade Campus of Portland
Community College in north Port-
land and a member of Portland’s
African American community, as
the next president of Clark Col-
lege in Vancouver.
“Dr. Edwards is an incredible
leader,” said Trustee Paul Speer.
“Her ability to help close achieve-
ment gaps between student pop-
ulations, her work in equity, her
work in partnerships in workforce
development, and her previous
experience in a presidential role
were certainly very influential in
the board’s decision.”
Edwards will be the college’s
15th leader in its 87-year history.
“I’m excited to begin a new
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lege and grateful to everyone at
Portland Community College who
has walked with me these past six
years,” she said in a statement.
“We have a great deal to be proud
of, developing programs and sup-
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A More Inclusive Women’s March
Sunday rally will be call for action
Thousands of women, children and their allies
are expected to gather on the streets of Portland
Sunday for an annual march and rally to build so-
cial, political, organizational and economic pow-
er.
“We’re advocating for women’s interests.
We’re remembering whose shoulders we stand
on. We’re remembering whose land we’re on and
paying that forward to rise up, to do better,” said
Della Rae, the organizer for this year’s march and
a Portland native and longtime women’s advocate.
A rally will kick off the family-friendly event
on Sunday, March 1 at 12 p.m. in the park blocks
near the Portland State University campus at
Southwest Montgomery and where a 17-block
march will begin at 1 p.m.
Rae says this year marks a new commitment
to including communities of color and nonbinary
and transgender individuals in the organizing, and
among the roster of speakers at the rally. Portland
was one of the first cities to break its ties to the
nationally run Women’s March because of con-
cerns about a lack of diversity.
Rae is the director and owner of the Oregon
Women’s Health Network, a former KBOO-FM
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Dr. Karin Edwards
Dr. Sandra Fowler-Hill, who
has served as Interim Clark Col-
lege President while the college
conducted a presidential search,
will continue in her current role
until Edwards is able to join the
college this summer.
Edwards has a 36-year career
at community colleges, Her com-
munity service includes serving
on the board of Portland Com-
munity Reinvestment Initiatives
and on the advisory board of the
Oregon Association of Minority
Entrepreneurs, as well as being an
active member of the Partners in
Diversity Leadership Council and
the Oregon Presidents Council of
the Oregon Community College
Association.
Edwards earned her bachelor’s
degree in psychology and her mas-
ter’s degree in higher education
administration at State University
of New York at Albany, and her
doctorate degree in educational
leadership at Johnson and Wales
University in Providence, R.I.
Della Rae is organizer of the annual Women’s
March and Rally coming Sunday, March 1 to the
Portland State University Park Blocks, downtown.
radio host, and the former founding director of
two Portland area nonprofits that helped low-in-
come people get access to resources from com-
munity members.
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