 So my name is Mandy Levine, M-A-N-D-Y-L-E-V-I-N-E. My title is Workforce Diversity and Inclusion Specialist. Okay, and there's one thing I forgot. My position is a new position for the city of Portland. It is the Workforce Diversity and Inclusion Specialist. And it's got a number of primary aims, one of which is to make the city's workforce more reflective of the city's population. And number one of the primary aims is to really enforce the city's Equal Employment Opportunity policies and procedures to provide trainings to our staff on a number of EEO related matters to be part of the HR department in terms of investigating allegations of discrimination and harassment. And generally being a resource to all city staff members for anything affecting Equal Employment Opportunities. In my first five weeks, the first three weeks have been mostly devoted to getting to know people, meeting with leaders throughout the city because I am new to the city's workforce and I'm trying to wrap my arms around what has currently been done, what's been working well, what hasn't been working well, getting a clearer picture of what the demographics are of the different departments, opportunities for hiring and recruiting within those departments. So a lot of it has really been kind of pounding the pavement and getting to know people because relationship building's gonna be a really big part of my role. In terms of other opportunities, updating of policies and procedures will definitely be something I'll be focusing on in the next year. So that's something that's kind of arisen in my conversations as well as a lot of opportunities for doing more outreach to a lot of minority organizations and associations to make them aware of job opportunities within the city. Well, what I've been really encouraged by is that really across the board, the department leaders that I've met with within the city's workforce are genuinely excited to have me here. There seems to be a lot of momentum and enthusiasm about my role, which feels great to me and there seems to be a genuine desire to work with me to diversify their own workforce. So that's been something that's been pretty universal and very encouraging that I'm going to have leaders who want to work with me and collaborate with me to diversify the workforce. A lot of times we've got really great job opportunities available within the city's workforce that people don't know about. So if we post a job on the city's website and then and wait for people to apply, that's probably not going to be the most successful way to recruit and so more actively, myself more actively engaging with minority groups, with nonprofit agencies and organizations that have a pipeline of diverse candidates making those personal connections with them so that I'm essentially a matchmaker and aligning individual seeking employment with opportunities we have at the city. So I think I have a tremendous opportunity there to make those connections. Some of the instances in which someone would probably seek me out individually is for example, if there's someone out in the city's population who believes, for example, that we, the city government, somehow violated their rights under either a federal law or the main Human Rights Act. So for example, if they perceived that they were denied equal access to a service because, for example, they're disabled or because they're a person of color and they want to raise that concern, that could be something that would come to me. And similarly, individuals within the city's workforce, I hope I will be a contact and a resource for them in similar circumstances if someone believes that they haven't been provided equal treatment, equal opportunities, I would be a resource for that concern as well. And one of my aims is to investigate that, to make sure that we're compliant. So diversify the workforce. I've been really lucky. There's been a great buzz about this particular role people have read about it. And so I have, in my first few weeks here, been contacted by a lot of people who do want to collaborate with me with my role because they see, for example, they have this pipeline of talent that the city's workforce might benefit from. So I have been receiving a fantastic influx of emails and phone calls from people who say, Mandy, I want to get to know you and the work that you'll be doing and let's brainstorm opportunities for collaboration. We want Portland to be Portland the city. It's workforce to be more representative of the tremendous diversity we have living within this peninsula.