May 08 2020
Mingus Mapps - May 8, 2020 Portland Conversations
Jason Allen interviews Mingus Mapps who is a city of Portland, Oregon candidate for Commissioner, Position #4 in 2020.
"Some folks decide to join civic life because they are molded to follow in their family crest while others see themselves as conduits for change through public engagement. It was somewhere in the magic of life’s winding road that I found my calling. I do feel that I was called to serve.
It is from this desire, this commitment that I am running. After many years of splitting my time teaching urban politics at schools such as Harvard and Cornell and working as a public servant in Portland, I landed in City Hall. I helped manage the City of Portland’ Neighborhood Association and the Crime Prevention Program. Folks, it is just what you imagined it to be. Dysfunctional and ineffective. This is the time, now more than ever with COVID-19 changing the economic landscape for all of us, for us to make sweeping changes to our city government."