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From<\/a> Oregon Quarterly,<\/a><\/em> April 3, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In spring 2018, change came to the Bethel neighborhood in Eugene. Royal Elizabeth Park received a new name: Andrea Ortiz Park, after Eugene\u2019s first Latina city councilor. Ortiz served from 2004 to 2012 and died in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNaming a public space, like a park, after a Latina really sends a positive message of inclusion and belonging to the Latino community in Eugene,\u201d says Gerardo Sandoval [CLLAS Executive Board member], an associate professor who specializes in community development in the School of Planning, Public Policy and Management (PPPM)<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s a formal designation that recognizes the positive contributions Latinos are making in Oregon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gerardo Sandoval<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The renaming followed years of outreach to the Latino community by Sandoval, a supporter of the city\u2019s efforts to make parks more inclusive. Through the Latino Civic Participation Project, he led an initiative to involve low-income, marginalized groups in community development, public policy, and planning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sandoval will continue his outreach and research efforts with the new Access and Equity Research Group. The group includes Jos\u00e9 Mel\u00e9ndez, an expert in equitable public engagement and transformative learning who joined PPPM as an assistant professor in 2018; and John Arroyo, an MIT-trained urban planner who will arrive this fall after completing his Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship in Latino Studies at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne person dealing with diversity issues cannot address all of those,\u201d Mel\u00e9ndez says. \u201cWe need multiple people addressing them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to Latinos, the group will study underrepresented indigenous, Asian American, and African American communities, and will examine the links between communities and the design, planning, and management of public space. In particular, the group will focus on \u201cparticipatory action research,\u201d which emphasizes partnering with communities to solve problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMany of us use qualitative methods that help elucidate stories and deeper context of the communities we research such as ethnography, in-depth interviews, oral histories, and content analysis of archival and current policy and legal documents,\u201d Arroyo says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jos\u00e9 Mel\u00e9ndez and John Arroyo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Like Sandoval, Mel\u00e9ndez and Arroyo have worked with Latino communities. During his doctoral studies and then as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Mel\u00e9ndez investigated the budgeting process in the city\u2019s 49th Ward, finding that Spanish-speaking Latino immigrants struggled to participate due to a language barrier. He partnered with the community to create a Spanish language committee that significantly increased and sustained the participation of its members in civic decision-making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a fellow, Arroyo is studying Latino immigrants with his first book project, Shadow Suburbanism: Mexican Everyday Life, Fear, and Space in Greater Atlanta. He is analyzing how Mexican immigrants reshape their suburban environments despite rising anti-immigration policies that distress one of the South\u2019s fastest growing populations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mel\u00e9ndez and Arroyo will also continue their research and outreach to Latino communities in Oregon, where that population is growing rapidly. According to the Latino Civic Participation Project, Latinos now make up 14 percent of the state population and 20 percent of the K\u201312 population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Says Arroyo: \u201cPeople don\u2019t realize Oregon is a microcosm of national issues\u2014rural poverty, urban income disparities, influxes of migration, and indigenous and small-city planning and infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014By Alex Cipolle,<\/em> MA \u201811 (journalism),<\/em> College of Design<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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