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Muñoz, Cindy

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Cindy Muñoz was born in Georgia around 2002. Her parents were originally from Mexico, and they returned there when Muñoz was 2 years old. Two years later, the family returned to the United States and settled in Oregon. Muñoz attended Forest Grove High School.

Aguilar, Yuriana

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Yuriana Aguilar was born in Mexico. Her family came to the United States when she was 5, and they settled in Fresno, California. She attended the University of California Merced, where she earned a bachelor of science degree in biology. After the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was established by the administration of President Barack Obama in 2012, she received protections under the program and continued her studies at UC Merced, earning a Ph.D. in 2016. She then worked as an instructor and post-doctoral fellow at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.

Amissi, Mussa, 2000-

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Mussa Amissi was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2000. In 2005, his family left Congo and sought refuge in Burundi. In 2009, they were approved for relocation in the United States, and they settled in Portland, Oregon. As of 2019, Amissi was a business major and a soccer player at Seattle Pacific University.

Haaji, Hamada (Mohamed), 1998-

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Mohamed "Hamada" Haaji was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1998. When he was 6 years old, his family sought refuge in Egypt. They lived in a refugee camp for a few years, and then moved into an apartment in Cairo. In 2013, his family applied for refugee status, and they were approved for resettlement in the United States in 2014. They settled in Clackamas, Oregon, where Haaji attended David Douglas High School.

Garcia, Maria, 1977-

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Maria Garcia was born in Mexico in 1977 and grew up in Mexico City. When she was 18 years old, she, her partner, and her 2-year-old daughter immigrated to the United States. They first lived in Palm Springs, California, and came to Portland, Oregon, in 2008. Garcia opened Revolucion Coffee House in downtown Portland, and she received American citizenship in 2010.

Hassan, Farooq, 1939-

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Farooq Hassan, also known as Farouk H. Al Tamimi, was born in Basra, Iraq, in 1939. In 1960, he earned a certificate of fine arts from the Fine Arts Institute in Baghdad, Iraq, and in 1963, he earned a certificate of handicrafts from UNESCO. Upon returning to his hometown of Basra, he met Haifa Al Habeeb, and they married in 1968. He taught art from 1960 to 1976. In 1980, he earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from Rome University in Italy. Beginning in 1980, political turmoil in Iraq disrupted his art career. Many of his paintings were lost during the 2003 looting of the Iraq Museum. In 2010, he immigrated to the United States and settled in Portland, Oregon.

Miranda, Jaime, 1974-

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Jaime Miranda was born in 1974 in rural Chihuahua, Mexico. His family relocated to Mexico City a few years later, and he spent the majority of his youth there. His family immigrated to the United States around 1984, and he joined them a year later. He studied education at the University of Oregon from 1994 to 2000, with the intention of becoming a teacher. Instead, he founded a business, the M & M Marketplace in Hillsboro, Oregon, in 2000. He and Bianca Hernandez married in 2011.

Najjar, Hanin, 1999-

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Hanin Najjar was born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 1999. Her parents immigrated to the United States five months later so that her mother could pursue higher education. They settled in Lake Oswego, Oregon, in 2002.

Stegmann, Lori, 1960-

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Lori Stegmann was born in South Korea in 1960. Shortly afterward, she was adopted by a couple in the United States through Holt International, an Oregon-based adoption agency founded by Harry and Bertha Holt. She spent her early life in Placerville, California. A few years later, her family relocated to Oregon, where they lived in Lincoln City and in Gresham. She attended Mount Hood Community College and earned a bachelor's degree in business from Portland State University in 1998. She worked as an insurance agent with Farmers Insurance. She served on the Gresham City Council for six years, including as the council's president in 2014. She was elected as a Multnomah County commissioner in 2016. A lifelong Republican, she changed her party affiliation to Democratic in 2018.

Vamos, Zsuzsanna, 1953-

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Zsuzsanna Vamos was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1953. She attended Semmelweis University in Budapest and earned a master's degree in pharmacology in 1977. In 1978, she and Istvan Adany were married; they later had three children. In 1988, she earned a Ph.D. in pharmacology. She immigrated to the United States in 1989 and first settled in Kansas, where she worked at the Kansas University Medical Center. She became a U.S. citizen in 1997. She and her family relocated to Hillsboro, Oregon, in 2009, and she became a pharmacist for Albertson's in Hillsboro. She is also an artist and has had her work exhibited in several galleries in the Pacific Northwest.

Murakami, John Y. (John Yoneo), 1919-2005

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John Yoneo Murakami was born in Sherwood, Oregon, in 1919. His parents, Shuichi Sam Murakami and Yaeno Goto, immigrated to the United States from Japan around 1917. When Murakami was 7 years old, his family moved from their farm in Sherwood to Portland, where his father owned a grocery store, called Johnson Street Grocery. Murakami dropped out of high school in his sophomore year and later earned his GED. In 1942, he and Sumi Matsushita were married. That same year, Murakami's family was among the Japanese Americans incarcerated by the U.S. government at the Minidoka War Relocation Center in Idaho. Murakami enlisted in the U.S. Army and served in the European Theater during World War II. He was injured in France and was discharged in 1945. He was awarded a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star. After his discharge, he returned to Portland and worked in construction. He then taught building construction at Benson Polytechnic High School. After ten years of marriage, John Murakami and and Sumi Murakami adopted two children. After John Murakami’s retirement in 1984, he was active in numerous community organizations, including the Japanese Ancestral Society, the Nisei Veterans Committee, and Portland Taiko. He died in 2005. In 2011, he was posthumously awarded a Congressional Gold Medal.

Dozono, Nadyne Yoneko, 1915-2013

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Nadyne Yoneko Dozono, nee Yoneko Niguma, was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1915. Her family arranged for her to go to Japan in 1931, when she was a teenager, to obtain a two-year education in Japanese culture. In 1934, while still in Japan, she and Asazo Dozono were married, and they later had three children. She lived in Japan during World War II and considered herself a Japanese citizen. After the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States in 1945, she worked with the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, which studied the effects of radiation poisoning among the survivors. She returned to the United States with her oldest child in 1953, with Asazo Dozono and the other children following shortly after. In the U.S., she continued working as an interpreter for the Japanese Ancestral League, as well as occasionally for the FBI. She was active in the Veleda Nisei Women's Club and often spoke in public schools about Japanese culture. She died in 2013.

Foster, Bernie (Bernard), 1940-

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Bernard "Bernie" V. Foster was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1940. He served in the U.S. Air Force and was deployed to Vietnam in 1963. In 1975, he and his wife, Bobbie Doré Foster, founded The Skanner newspaper in Portland, Oregon. The paper later opened an additional office in Seattle, Washington. In the 1990s, he founded The Skanner Foundation, which grants awards and scholarships to members of Oregon's black community. In 2013, he and Bobbie Doré Foster received the Oregon Historical Society's History Makers award.

Lambert, William Francis, 1902-1985

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William Francis Lambert was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1902. He attended Northwestern College of Law. In 1928, he and Carrie Naomi Baxter were married; they later had two children. He served as Multnomah County treasurer from 1936 to 1948, and as vice president of First National Bank from 1948 to 1950. He died in 1985.

Frank, Aaron M. (Aaron Meier), 1891-1968

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Aaron Meier Frank was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1891. He graduated from the University of Oregon law school in 1913 and was admitted to the Oregon State Bar that same year. A member of Portland's prominent Meier and Frank families, Frank soon became involved in the family store, Meier & Frank. In 1916, he and Ruth R. Rosenfeld were married; they later had two children. Frank became assistant manager of the Meier & Frank Department Store in 1922. In 1930, after Meier & Frank President Julius Meier was elected Oregon governor, Frank became the company's vice president and general manager. After Julius Meier's death in 1938, Frank became president of the store, a position he held until his retirement in 1964. He died in 1968.

Haynes, LeRoy, Jr., 1949-

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The Rev. Dr. LeRoy Haynes, Jr. was born in Beaumont, Texas, in 1949. He attended Houston-Tillotson University in Austin, and earned a bachelor's degree from the University of North Texas. Also in Texas, he was a youth organizer for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a field organizer for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, and a co-organizer of the Black Panther Party. Haynes earned a master's degree in theology from Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and a doctorate of ministry from Brite Theological Seminary. He became the senior pastor of Allen Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Portland, Oregon, as well as presiding elder of the Alaska & Oregon/Washington Districts and in the Alaska-Pacific Region of the 9th Episcopal District. He also became vice president of the Albina Ministerial Alliance in Portland and chair of the AMA Coalition for Justice and Police Reform. He served on the board of the Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon, and became its president in 2012.

Bown, Dick (Richard Charles), 1928-

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Richard "Dick" Charles Bown was born in Gettysburg, South Dakota, in 1928. He moved to Oregon in 1941. In 1950, he and Evelyn Constance Ferguson were married; they later had three children. Bown became a race car driver and competed in NASCAR races from 1961 to 1975. All three of his children were also involved in automobile racing. He also owned a service station and an auto wrecking business, Rose Auto Wrecking, in Portland, Oregon.

Pubols, Harold L. (Harold Louis), 1903-1993

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Harold Louis Pubols was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1903. He grew up in Hillsboro, Oregon. He graduated from Columbia University, now known as the University of Portland, in 1927. He then attended Oregon State University on a football scholarship. In 1929, he and Frances Audrey Jones were married; they later had four children. He died in 1993.

McInnis, Donald W. (Donald William), 1900-1994

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Donald William McInnis was born in Jefferson County, Washington, in 1900. He grew up on a homestead in Reedville, Oregon. In 1922, he and Julia Estella Flint were married; they later had six children. After her death in 1959, he had two subsequent marriages, to Mary Barclay and then to Dorothy Mae Deisch, that ended in divorce. McInnis died in 1994.

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