It’s Time to Step Up for the Portland We Deserve!

Ozzie González for Mayor 2020

Portland, Oregon

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Portland is a city filled with creative artisans and business leaders, environmental champions and industrial entrepreneurs, diverse families and young singles, all with a multitude of passions, ideas and goals. It’s vital that this city works for everyone.

Portland is in a palpable state of transformation and growth. We are not the same city we were twenty, five, or even one year ago. While the possibilities are exciting, the challenges are extraordinarily complex. Today’s challenges will not be solved using the methods of the past. Today’s Portland requires bold leadership that understands Portland’s history as a livable city and can help shape it into the grown up version of itself.

COVID-19 Campaign Update

Due to the global health pandemic, the González campaign has transitioned all field operations to digital platforms. Catch Ozzie’s “Afternoon Chat” livestream M-Th at 3pm on Facebook and Instagram. See our ‘Events’ page for other online forums addressing the issues Portland cares about most.

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Supported By…

• Alan Evan, CEO – Helping Hands

• Alan Scott, Green Design Architect

• Alliance Party PAC

• Amanda Siebe, Disability Rights Activist

• Ana Gonzalez Munoz, Reynolds School District Board

• Basic Rights Oregon Equality PAC

• Bill Cohen, Owner, Cohen Caregiving Support

• Brian Harvey, President, Neighbors-West Northwest

• Chuck Canham, Small Business Owner

• Claire Willet, Playwright & Sci-Fi Novelist

• Cynthia V. Harris Ed.D., Community Organizer & Educator

D’anna Olsen, Owner, MMXplus

• David Barmon, Urban Green Infrastructure Activist

Dr. Elizabeth Flores, Housecall MD

Eric Corey Freed, Architect, Author, Speaker

Eric Ufer, Small Business Owner

Ernesto Bejarano, Alum Rock Union School District Board

Fred Miller, former Chair Administrator City of Portland

Herb & Yayoi Yamamoto, Small Business Owners

Irwan Hadiyanto, REDe Print / Copyman

• James Autry, Executive Director, Serving Our Neighbors

• James Faison, Local Business Owner

• James Posy, Business Equity Activist

• John Downing, Diversity & Inclusion Director

• John Jackley, former PDC Board Chair

• John Russell, Developer

• Johnny Bradford, Pastor On the Move Ministries

• Kathy Wai, Trimet Board Member

• Kurt Miller, Renewable Energy Professional

• LatinoBuilt Business Association

• Marie Gettel-Gilmartin, Owner, Fertile Ground Communications

• Monday Jones, Performing Artist & Human Trafficking Activist

• Octaviano Merecias, Chief Learning Officer, Emergente

• Oregon Smart Growth

• Paul Tice, CEO, ToPa 3D

• Pat Daniels, Workforce Development Director

• Rick Fedrizzi, Founder of US Green Building Council

• Roben White, Native Rights Activist

• Ruben Medina, Attorney at Law

• Summer Gorder, Sustainability Expert

• Suzanne Donaldson, Local Business Owner

• Tessah Danel, Water Commissioner – Clackamas River Water

• Tom Kelly, Homebuilder

• Vanessa Keitges, CEO/President, Columbia Green Technologies Small Business & Green Tech

• Victor Alvarizares, Pastor Casa del Padre

• Vlad Meltzer, Slavic Radio Host

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Government Experience

Ozzie understands how policy plays out in the real world and has a track record of crafting effective policies that considers peripheral impacts. As an architecture professional, Ozzie has over ten years of firsthand experience with obtaining building permits from government agencies around the country and has sat on policy advisory committees for City and Federal government agencies on matters as broad as green building, energy infrastructure, air quality, solid waste management, and economic development. Most recently, Ozzie has been supporting the City of Portland’s largest construction project in achieving its disadvantaged business participation and workforce diversity goals.

Ozzie has worked with government agencies in over twelve cities, four countries, and around the world with agencies at the municipal to international level. Ozzie currently serves as Trimet Regional Board Representative for District 2 and sits on the Oregon Department of Education’s Committee on Career and Technical Education. For the last three years, Ozzie has overseen the management of public arts grants as Chair of the Grants Committee for the Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC). Ozzie has been a staff administrator for the City of West Covina, served three seasons in Montana as a Naturalist Ranger for the National Park Service, and sat on contract selection committees for the City of Portland, Prosper Portland, and Multnomah County.