Today, Senator Akasha Lawrence Spence (D-Portland) and Representative Janelle Bynum (D-Clackamas) join Black women leaders across Oregon in releasing a statement celebrating Nataki Garrett, who has served as the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s (OSF) Artistic Director since 2019. The leaders join in denouncing the racist death threats made against Ms. Garrett.
Traci Rossi, the executive director of the Portland chapter of Friends of the Children, talks about the impact a nearly $8 million gift from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott will have on the organization's efforts to pair paid mentors with at risk youth.