TRANSPORTATION AND EQUITY

We want to invite you to a special local event on transportation and equity near you in Portland, Oregon on Wednesday April 6. Transportation is crucial to ensuring opportunity for all – connecting us to jobs, schools, housing, healthcare, and grocery stores. But millions of working families and people of color live in communities where quality transportation options are unaffordable, unreliable, or nonexistent. The type of transportation system we build, where we put it, who builds it, and how we operate it have an enormous impact on our economy, our climate and our health. To learn more about these issues and what we can do about it, we invite you to a box lunch event in Portland on Wednesday, April 6 from 11:30 to 2:00 p.m. Who Gets Access? Transportation Equity from the National to the Local A box-lunch event and conversation with: Radhika Fox, PolicyLink Federal Policy Director and T4 America Executive Committee Member Lillian Shirley, President-elect, National Association of County and City Health Officials and Director of the Multnomah County Health Department Alejandro Queral, Healthy Communities Program Director, Multnomah County Health Department Ron Ruggiero, Executive Director, Service Employees International Union Local 49 Where: SEIU Local 49 Hall 3536 SE 26th Ave. (at Powell Blvd.) Portland, OR on bus lines 9 and 10 When: Wednesday, April 6 11:30 am – 2:00 pm Be on time and eat! A limited number of box lunches will be available starting at 11:30 am. Presentations will start promptly at 12:00 pm. Q&A with the panel will be from 1:00 pm to 1:45 pm. RSVP to chris.rall@t4america.org. Reservations are encouraged. This event sponsored by: 1,000 Friends of Oregon Bicycle Transportation Alliance Coalition for a Livable Future Community Cycling Center Josiah Hill III Clinic Northwest Health Foundation OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon Oregon Public Health Institute Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc. PolicyLink Upstream Public Health SEIU Local 49 Transportation For America Urban League of Portland Willamette Pedestrian Coalition