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| Dr. Greg Schrock
School Director
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Welcome to the Spring 2023 Toulan School newsletter! This is our second newsletter in this new quarterly format. I appreciated the enthusiastic responses from so many of you to our inaugural edition, which is here in case you missed it. Here in Portland spring has sprung—the much-welcomed end to a particularly long, cold, rainy Pacific Northwest winter. With it, the Urban Center Plaza and Park Blocks have come alive again with students, faculty, and community members.
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Each newsletter features a current student, faculty member, and an alum sharing their stories about what brought them to the Toulan School and the impact of their work.
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I am the product of a village of people who, throughout space and time, have been essential pillars to any amount of “success” I have achieved or will achieve, and whom I hope to emulate in terms of how I want to show up and be a caretaker of life. In an ideal manifestation of this world, no one would move through the world without the support of others.
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I grew up in the Bronx, New York, a few blocks away from Yankee Stadium. Both of my parents were immigrants from Poland and were members of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union all their working lives in the United States. Neither of them drove a car, and I grew up riding public transit and got to know the city by riding the subway to libraries all over town. Those were formative influences on me: I became deeply interested in urban transportation issues, and also in union activity, early on.
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| Héctor Rodriguez-Ruiz
MURP Alum
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When I moved to Portland in 2014, it was my first time living on the mainland and my first time being treated differently because of my accent and the way I look. I’m Borikua, born and raised in Puerto Rico, where I completed my bachelor’s degree in biology. I belong to the Latinx Queer community, and my preferred pronouns are he/him/el. After my undergraduate education, I moved to Portland by myself seeking new challenges and opportunities.
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This Toulan School newsletter was produced by Nora Quiros and Kimberly Nightingale
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