Updated at 10:43 AM increase font size Portland Charter Commission selects leaders Michael Kebede, a policy counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine, and Shay Stewart-Bouley, a writer and executive director of Community Change Inc., a Boston-based anti-racist nonprofit, were elected chair and vice chair, respectively. Share During its first meeting, the Portland Charter Commission elected Michael Kebede and Shay Stewart-Bouley to lead a yearlong review of city government, signaling that criminal justice and racial equity would be among the issues the group will seek to address over the coming year. Kebede, a policy counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine, and Stewart-Bouley, a writer and executive director of Community Change Inc., a Boston-based anti-racism nonprofit, were each elected Monday by 9-3 votes as chair and vice chair, respectively. They each won their leadership positions over Peter Eglinton, a former school board chair and deputy director of Efficiency Maine, who was elected as secretary in 7-5 vote.