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July 06. 2022 INSIDE L ocaL N ews Page 3 Hired for Equity Focused Agenda Prosper Proper taps Portland leader for job Arts & page 9-10 ENTERTAINMENT o piNioN c Lassified /B ids page 12 pages 11 Prosper Portland, the city of Portland’s economic develop- ment agency, has selected Chabre Vickers as its equity, policy and communications director. She will lead the agency’s ongoing work to center equity in its poli- cies and practices, guide strategic communication and communi- ty engagement, and oversee the development of quantitative out- comes and metrics. “We could not be more pleased to welcome Chabre to our team,” said Prosper Portland Executive Director Kimberly Branam. Vickers’ background includes multiple roles at Wells Fargo, where she served as a public af- fairs employee initiatives leader and community development of- ficer for Oregon. In these roles she led the statewide activation of more than $22 million in Wells Fargo Foundation philanthropic community investments, includ- ing a Neighborhood LIFT pro- gram, which helped 280 families become new homeowners across Multnomah County. Chabre Vickers In 2021 she helped lead Wells Fargo’s Open for Business Fund, a $5.4 million investment to support Oregon’s diverse small businesses. Vickers has also served in many leadership roles representing the bank and finance industry, among them the Oregon State Treasurer’s Financial Empowerment Adviso- ry Team, the steering committee for the Oregon Economic Justice Roundtable led by Asset Funders Network, Governor Brown’s Met- ro Regional Solutions Committee, and the inaugural chair of the Or- egon Bankers Association BIPOC Task Force, working to ensure fi- nancial institutions across Oregon intentionally work to benefit com- munities of color. Vickers is a third generation Black Indigenous Oregonian, a descendant of the Shoshone Ban- nock tribes. Her passion for com- munity is demonstrated by her commitment to public service and her advocacy with many organiza- tions – including the Williams & Russell Project Working Group, Prosper Portland’s N/NE Action Plan Leadership Committee, as a board member for NAYA, the Lit- erary Arts Organization, and the Oregon Symphony. She is a former chair of the City of Portland Human Rights Commission, and former exec- utive board member of the Port- land African American Leader- ship Forum. “I am grateful to work with a team that has such an extensive level of experience, expertise and commitment to amplifying inclu- sive economic development in our city,” Vickers said. “Raising my daughter in a place that my family has called home for generations makes this new involvement in Portland’s future a very person- al step for me. The realization of economic justice and prosperi- ty for our vibrant communities requires our work to strengthen community connections and part- nerships to make Portland a place where everyone can thrive.” Destructive Abortion Rights Protest Mother and Child Center, school van, businesses hit s ports page 8 Established 1970 USPS 959 680 4747 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Portland, OR 97211 The Portland Observer welcomes freelance submissions. Manuscripts and photographs should be clearly labeled and will be returned if accompanied by a self addressed envelope. All created design display ads become the sole property of the newspaper and cannot be used in other publications or personal usage without the written consent of the general manager, unless the client has purchased the composition of such ad. © 2008 THE PORTLAND OBSERVER. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, REPRODUCTION IN WHOLE OR IN PART WITHOUT PERMISSION IS PROHIBITED. The Portland Observer--Oregon’s Oldest Multicultural Publication--is a member of the National Newspaper Association--Founded in 1885, and The National Advertising Representative Amalgamated Publishers, Inc, New York, NY, and The West Coast Black Publishers Association PO QR code Publisher: Editor: Mark Washington, Sr. Michael Leighton Office Mngr/Clasfds: Lucinda Baldwin Admin.Coord.: Quayuana Washington Creative Director: Kenya Anderson Office Asst/Sales: Shawntell Washington CALL 503-288-0033 • FAX 503-288-0015• news@portlandobserver.com ads@portlandobserver.com• subscription@portlandobserver.com Postmaster: Send address changes to Portland Observer, PO Box 3137, Portland, OR 97208 An abortion rights protest in Portland turned destructive over the weekend of June 24-26, with some people marching down streets in the Hollywood District breaking windows on businesses and vehicles and scrawling graf- fiti, police said. Officers were monitoring the crowd but no one was arrested because they “did not have the resources to intervene at the mo- ment,” police said in a statement Sunday. City police officers were also responding to a shooting, a felony assault, a community fes- tival and drivers doing stunts in various parts of the city at the time, police said. Protesting the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and leave abortion deci- sions up to the states began with Demonstrators leave a trail of graffiti and broken windows, includ- a gathering of about 200 people ing to the entrance to the Mother and Child Center at 1500 N.E. 41st. Ave., a grassroots nonprofit that provides services to people at a park. who have decided to have children . The damage took place June Continued on Page 12 25, the day after the Supreme Court erased the constitutional right to abortion, police said.
