Friday, March 12, 2010
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Registration: 12:00 p.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Presentation: 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

World Trade Center Portland
121 SW Salmon Street, 2WTC
Portland, Oregon
Map of location

Welcoming Remarks:

• John Aguirre, Director, Oregon Association of Nurseries
  
• Gale Castillo, President, Hispanic Metropolitan Chamber

Opening Remarks:

• Christopher Sabatini, Senior Director of Policy, Americas Society and Council of the Americas and Editor-in-Chief, Americas Quarterly

Keynote Remarks:

• Mayor Sam Adams, City of Portland
• Speaker of the House Dave Hunt, Oregon House of Representatives

Panel: Workforce Development and the Latino Community:

• Mayor Sam Adams, City of Portland
• Gary Furr, Chief Operations Officer, J. Frank Schmidt & Son Co.
• Wim Wiewel, President, Portland State University
• Jason Marczak, Director of Policy, Americas Society and Council of the Americas (Moderator)

In partnership with:

Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, AS/COA’s Hispanic Integration Initiative promotes dialogue and information sharing among the private sector, public sector, and community groups to advance Latino integration, with a focus on the immigrant population. The objective is to support the further integration of immigrant workers into businesses and local communities while facilitating a more mobilized and visible business sector on issues of immigrant integration in order to change perceptions at the local and national levels. In addition to Portland, our work has involved communities from across the country including Atlanta, GA, Nashville, TN, New Orleans, LA, and Omaha, NE.


Lunch Registration: $20 for all Registrants. $15 for AS/COA members. Pre-registration is required.

Event information: Please contact Evianna Cruz at ecruz@as-coa.org or 212-277-8393.

This event is open to the press. Press registration: Please contact Alex Andrews at
aandrews@as-coa.org or 212-277-8384.

Cancellation policy: By email (jserrano@counciloftheamericas.org) by 3:00 p.m., Thursday, March, 11 2010.

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