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business administration.
She also ran the univer-
sity’s Intercultural Men-
toring Program, which
helps increase the reten-
tion rate of minority stu-
dents.
Oluloro’s change-mak-
ing seeds, however, were
planted long before her
formal education began.
‘I remember I was playing
one day and I said, “Mommy,
I’m going to be a doctor.” So I
knew very early on’
are more medical stu-
dents than residencies,
so not everyone will
place in their discipline.
Given that Oluloro
“matched” is no surprise
to anyone who is famil-
iar with her intense-
ly-focused efforts and
achievements.
At 28, she’s had little
time to be a care-free
twentysomething, joking
that her spare time con-
sists of sleeping.
Her love of medicine
and her drive to im-
prove public health care
surfaced at a young age.
When Oluloro was still
in preschool, she got a
toy stethoscope and doc-
tor’s kit for Christmas.
“I remember I was play-
ing one day and I said,
‘Mommy, I’m going to be
a doctor.’ So I knew very
early on,” she said.
For most of her life,
Oluloro has been carving
out her path to profes-
sional medicine.
Born and raised in Port-
land, she graduated from
Madison High School
and completed several of
what she calls “pipeline
programs,”
including
OHSU’s Summer Equity
Research Program.
She attended the Uni-
versity of Oregon, where
she earned a double ma-
jor in biochemistry and
biology, and a minor in
Her family made head-
lines in the 1990s when
her Nigerian-born par-
ents were divorced,
leaving Oluloro’s moth-
er as an undocumented
worker in the U.S. Faced
with deportation, Lydia
Oluloro set a precedent
for other asylum seek-
ers when she claimed
that her American-born
daughters – Ann and her
sister Shade, ages 5 and 6
at the time – would face
genital mutilation by rel-
atives in Nigeria if they
returned.
Lydia, who won the
case, is herself a victim
of female circumcision.
Her fierce determination
to challenge the ritual,
and stand up for gender
equality, has been an in-
spiration for her daugh-
ter.
“From that point on, I
thought, why are wom-
en treated differently in
society?” said Oluloro.
“It made me want to look
at women’s rights and go
into that aspect of medi-
cine.”
“Also, with my mom
being a single parent
and us not having a lot of
money, we always went
to the free clinic,” she
continued.
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Homelessness
Portland State University has hired an accomplished opera singer to become the next dean of its College of the Arts and an internationally
recognized expert on race and education to become dean of its Graduate School of Education.
Leroy E. Bynum, Jr. -- an accomplished opera singer and dean at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY -- will start his tenure as the
college’s next dean this summer. He replaces former dean Robert Bucker, who retired in January. Bynum has been the dean of the
School of Arts and Humanities at Saint Rose since 2014.
Marvin Lynn -- professor and dean of the School of Education at Indiana University South Bend and an internationally recognized
expert on race and education -- will begin his tenure as the college’s next dean on July 1. He will replace the current dean, Randy Hitz.
At Indiana University, Lynn led a reorganization of its School of Education, brought greater focus on marketing and recruitment for
diversity – which resulted in enrollment growth – and revamped the school’s mission and vision.
Forums
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will update the community on
the status of the city’s settlement
agreement with the US Depart-
ment of Justice, and take input
on the April 3 draft compliance
report (which is available online
at
http://www.cocl-coab.org/
news/q3-q4-2016-draft-cocl-com-
pliance-report-released) on the
city’s reforms. Comments on that
report are due May 2.
Two members of the Compli-
ance Officer/Community Liaison
team from Chicago have commit-
ted to attending the forum.
For more information about the
AMA forum, please contact Chair
Dr. LeRoy Haynes, Jr., or co-chair
Dr. T. Allen Bethel at (503) 288-
7242.
The Independent Police Review
board will hold five listening
sessions in the coming weeks:
• 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. April 15 at
the Immigrant and Refugee
Community
Organization,
10301 NE Glisan St.
• 6:30 – 8 p.m. April 19 at Mult-
nomah Arts Center, 7688 SW
Capitol Hwy.
• 6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m. April 25 at
Charles Jordan Community
Center, 9009 N. Foss Ave.
• 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. April 28 at
Matt Dishman Community Cen-
ter, 77 NE Knott St.
Citizens will also have the
chance to provide comment on
the settlement to the Indepen-
dent Police Review at ipr@port-
landoregon.gov, by postal mail at
IPR, 1221 SW 4th, Suite 140, Port-
land, OR 97204 or by voicemail,
(503) 823-0146.
In 2012 the DOJ sued the City of
Portland after more than a year of
investigation found the Portland
Police Bureau engaged in pat-
terns of excessive force against
people with mental illness or in
mental health crisis.
In 2014 the city reached a settle-
ment with the DOJ, which includ-
ed a detailed plan for improving
training and procedures within
the department. The settlement
also calls upon the city to offer
more services for people with
mental illness.
The
community
oversight
board created by the settlement
effectively disbanded at the end
of January, and last week Attor-
ney General Jeff Sessions issued
a memo saying agreements pre-
viously reached between the DOJ
and local police departments
would be up for review.
“The Attorney General’s justi-
fication for the massive review
is based upon the need to return
to a Nixonian “Law and Order”
approach that de-emphasizes Jus-
tice and emphasizes support for
Police Departments, prevention
of crimes and protecting the pub-
lic,” the AMA said in a statement
issued after its forum announce-
ment.
“Community Policing is not a
Democratic or Republican party
issue, it is an American issue,” the
statement reads.
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• 94 percent of survey respondents
said they had been harassed for sleep-
ing in public, 51 percent had been cit-
ed and 84 percent were harassed for
sleeping in a vehicle, with 41 percent
being cited;
• 48 cities and two counties had laws
outlawing sitting, standing and rest-
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Portland State Hires Two New Deans
property owner can host a camper;
Oregon state law restricts religious
institutions from accommodating
more than three vehicles with people
living in them at one time;
• Seven cities have “transfer” laws pro-
hibiting drivers and passengers of
vehicles from giving money or other
‘We have this long history of criminalizing
homelessness, through vagrancy laws and that
kind of thing, it’s been an issue since the incep-
tion of our state, maybe’
ing in a public space, usually by pro-
hibiting obstruction of pedestrian or
vehicular traffic; some also prohibit
overnight obstructions;
• 20 cities had laws restricting panhan-
dling and begging;
• Nine cities restrict whether a per-
son can sleep on private property,
and six restrict situations where a
personal property to a pedestrian.
The report notes that future research
should focus on enforcement patterns
— something advocates say can be chal-
lenging to determine, given that there’s
no uniform method for local munici-
palities to record police activity, and
acquiring the necessary records can be
expensive and time-consuming.
“We have this long
history of criminal-
izing homelessness,
through
vagrancy
laws and that kind
of thing, it’s been an
issue since the incep-
tion of our state, may-
be,” Heather Marek,
the report’s author,
told The Skanner.
Some of the laws the Last week the ACLU of Oregon released a report detailing the number of
report studied have
laws restricting public activity that advocates say restricts the rights of
been on the books for
unhoused people – including anti-camping ordinances.
decades, and some
are newer — or have
laws” passed in the 1860s, which made
been dusted off recently. Several advo- it illegal for people with “unsightly or
cates who spoke with The Skanner not- disgusting” people to be in public; and
ed a lineage between current pushes the existence of “sundown towns” mak-
to restrict public activities and older ing it illegal for racial minorities to be
laws that restrict who can be in public present in a given locality after dark.
spaces: Jim Crow laws; California’s 1937 (Historians say there were at least four
“anti-Okie law,” which made it illegal sundown towns in Oregon.)
to “bring or assist in bringing” poor
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people to the state; California’s “ugly
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through the National Res-
ident Matching Program,
using a Nobel Prize-win-
ning algorithm.
“Match Day is almost
like the NBA of NFL
draft,” said Oluloro.
“It’s a huge deal, and
probably more import-
ant than graduation.”
Unfortunately, there
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