Former award-winning journalist turned multimedia artist, S. Renee Mitchell, MBA, spent 25 years working for newspapers in Seattle, Orlando and Detroit, among other cities. She is most known in Portland for her years as a Metro columnist for The Oregonian, where she was nominated twice for the prestigious Pulitzer Prize. Mitchell is a published author of four books of poetry, a novel, five plays and a children’s book about courage in the face of bullying.
The story about being black in Oregon is one of resiliency, of determination and of continuously salvaging hope by mixing sweet triumphs with bitter truths. More
