Lake Oswego Lake Run 2024
LO for LOve is excited to participate in the 48th year of the Lake Oswego Lake Run! We will be back to host the Kids Dash portion of the run at 10am. There's also a 5K and 10K distances as usual. Register today before prices increase on March 31st! https://lakeoswegolakerun.org/
Hosted by the the Northwest Housing Alternatives, proceeds from the Lake Run go to benefit the organization's mission to create opportunity through housing and end homelessness in Clackamas County.
Respond to Racism Community Meeting: Black Girl in Suburbia
Screening and Discussion with Melissa Lowery
Black Girl in Suburbia is a documentary by filmmaker Melissa Lowery that examines the experiences of black girls who live in predominantly white communities. We will watch and discuss the film, as well as her work creating space for Black students in predominantly white schools in Portland and Beaverton.
Join Respond to Racism in-person or watch live on their Youtube Channel.
About the Guest
Melissa Lowery is a wife and mother that lives in the Pacific Northwest. She is an Equity and Liberation Strategist, and Director/Producer of the Documentary film, Black Girl In Suburbia. She always seeks to create better and equitable environments that honor the human dignity of each person through storytelling and dialogue. Melissa currently works at Central Catholic High School in Portland as the Director of Equity and Community Engagement.
Save the Date: Pride Lake Oswego
Save the Date! Learn more on our official Pride Lake Oswego website.
Respond to Racism Community Meeting: Finding My Way to Funeral for Flaca
Conversation and Book Giveaway with Emilly Prado
Author Emilly Prado will share the evolving nature of finding her path as a writer in this talk drawing upon her experiences as a first-generation Chicana and college student, and self-proclaimed troublemaker who struggled with school and mental health. Attendees will hear a reading from Funeral for Flaca and view archival childhood photographs to better understand how 13-year-old Emilly found strength through music and writing.
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About the Guest
Emilly Prado is an award-winning author and journalist, educator, and DJ based in Portland, Oregon. She is the author of the essay collection Funeral for Flaca, a winner of a 2022 Pacific Northwest Book Award, a 2021 bronze winner of the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in Essays, and several other honors. Her writing and photographs have appeared in more than 30 publications including NPR, Bitch Media, and Marie Claire. An alum of the Randolph College MFA, she teaches creative writing at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, and moonlights as DJ Mami Miami with Noche Libre, the Latinx DJ collective she co-founded in 2017. Learn more at www.emillyprado.com or on social media @emillygprado.
Respond to Racism Community Meeting: Holding Difficult Truths: Transforming Our Broken Past into a Hopeful Future
Conversation and Book Giveaway with Taylor Stewart and Sarah Sanderson
Taylor Stewart, founder and Executive Director of the Oregon Remembrance Project and Sarah Sanderson, author of The Place We Make: Breaking the Legacy of Legalized Hate, will be discussing sundown towns and how we tangibly reconcile that history, as well as the effects that manifest in the present day, including here in Lake Oswego.
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About the Guests
Taylor Stewart is the founder and Executive Director of the Oregon Remembrance Project (ORP). He is a lifelong Portlander and graduated from the University of Portland in 2018 with a degree in Communication and a Master’s in Social Work from Portland State University in 2021. Taylor started the ORP in 2018 to help communities unearth stories of injustice and engage in the necessary truth telling and repair required to reconcile instances of historical harm. His work connects historical racism to its present-day legacies in order to inspire contemporary racial justice action. In what started as simply a way to memorialize a man named Alonzo Tucker, the most widely documented African American victim of lynching in Oregon, Taylor has grown to see the power of reconciliation to rectify further instances of historical injustice. He gave a TED Talk with TEDx Portland in 2022 titled “How do you reconcile a lynching?” which applies the three R’s of reconciliation—remembrance, repair, and redemption—to the lynching of Alonzo Tucker. His work now extends to cover other stories of historical injustice in Oregon.
Sarah L. Sanderson’s first book is The Place We Make: Breaking the Legacy of Legalized Hate (WaterBrook; on-sale 8/15/23). She holds a Master of Fine Arts in creative nonfiction from Seattle Pacific University, a master’s in teaching from Seattle University, and a bachelor of English and philosophy from Wheaton College. She was born in Oregon and returned there eight years ago, after living in various places. Sarah now lives with her family south of Portland near Oregon City and her pursuits include writing, speaking, teaching creative writing, learning to pray, and building the beloved community. Her writing has appeared in PBS Newshour and Christianity Today. Visit her at www.sarahlsanderson.com and Instagram.com/sarahlsandersonwriter.