Corporate Accountability & the Portland Clean Energy Initiative

Amory and Cary return to host Native Voices from the Edge on KBOO.  This week they welcome Khanh Pham from APANO & Candice Jimenez from the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs to talk about the role of corporations in the Portland Clean Energy Initiative.

Khanh Pham is the Manager of Immigrant Organizing at APANO. She also serves as the Board Chair of OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon.  She’s worked as a community organizer, fundraiser, and communications associate in a variety of social justice organizations, including VietUnity, Global Fund for Women,  Refugee Transitions, and National Radio Project.

Khanh leads the immigrant organizing programs and our Climate, Health, and Housing Institute (CHHI) fellowship program. She focuses on political education, leadership development, and policy advocacy, with a particular emphasis on the intersections between climate, health, and housing issues.

Candice Jimenez is a member of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. Ms. Jimenez earned her bachelor’s degree in Biology from Concordia University and a Master’s in Public Health from Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). This fall she is continuing that journey within the Wy’East Cohort at OHSU through the Northwest Native American Center of Excellence as a Career Change student. She has spent the last five years as a Research Coordinator for the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board supporting NW tribes in child passenger safety and pre-teen oral health. As a career change student, Ms. Jimenez will refresh pre-medical science curriculum while also gaining clinical experience and peer mentorship from seasoned medical students and physicians in additional to academic wellness; a framework that honors indigenous community values and cultures. 

Candice has known of her passion to become a healer - a physician for her people - since she was a child and hopes to represent the communities she aspires to serve. Candice and her husband live in Portland with their two children, where they enjoy the food culture and love for nature.