Multnomah County Commissioners &
A4D Meet Tomorrow
Tomorrow, Tuesday, November 23, Multnomah County Commissioners Sharon Meieran and Susheela Jaypal will join A4D for a conversation about homelessness and other critical issues facing our region today. The meeting will get underway at 5:00pm.
Commissioner Meieran represents Portland’s Southwest District 1 in addition to practicing emergency medicine. Using her experience on the front line caring for those in crisis to inform her policy and advocacy work, she focuses on issues such as behavioral health, housing and homelessness, community safety, and the intersections of those systems. Dr. Meieran graduated from UC Berkeley with Bachelor of Arts degrees in English and Economics, attended law school at Hastings College of the Law, and subsequently attended UCSF medical school in San Francisco.
Commissioner Jaypal has served District 2, Northeast Portland, since
January, 2019. She was born in India and came to the US at age 16 to attend college. An Oregonian since 1994, she is a lawyer and mother of two Grant High School graduates.
Her committee responsibilities have included the Multnomah County Sex Trafficking Collaborative, the Gateway Center for Domestic Violence Advisory Council, Metro Supportive Housing Services Measure Oversight Committee, and the Joint Task Force on Supporting Business in Reducing Diesel Emissions.
If you haven’t registered yet, please follow this link and do so now. You can review the meeting’s full agenda here.
See you tomorrow!
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record any activist work you do between Monday and Friday here;
pull together a few friends, name yourselves, and complete the form, including a name for your squad, or
choose a captain for your squad and have the captain enter all of the group’s activities on the form.
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