July 06. 2022
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Hired for Equity Focused Agenda
Prosper Proper
taps Portland
leader for job
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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
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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.