Sponsored by T4American and a broad range of organizations:
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:
Who Gets Access?
Transportation Equity from the National to the Local
A box-lunch event and conversation with:Radhika Fox, Federal Policy Director – PolicyLink and Executive Committee Member – Transportation For America
Lillian Shirley, President-elect – National Association of City and County Health Officials and Director – Multnomah County Health Department
Alejandro Queral, Healthy Communities Program Director – Multnomah County Health
DepartmentRon 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 10When:
Wednesday, April 6
11:30 am – 2:00 pmBe 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