Q&A: Commissioner Rubio on Her First Two Years in Office and Her Role on a New City Council
City Commissioner Carmen Rubio entered City Hall during an exceptionally unusual time. When she was sworn into office on December 28, 2020, the city was still seeing frequent evening racial justice protests, the state was shuttered due to the new COVID-19 omicron variant, and the country was weeks away from a violent uprising at the US Capitol. Now, two years since her first days on City Council—when all meetings were confined to a Zoom screen—the...
Source: portlandmercury.com
