Khanh Pham on representing East Portland, climate policy and becoming Oregon’s only Asian American lawmaker

By Samantha Matsumoto (OPB)
Nov. 20, 2020 10:03 a.m.

Broadcast: Friday, Nov. 20

House District 46 Representative-elect Khahn Pham.

Photographer: Rick Rappaport

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Khanh Pham has spent decades working in community organizing and climate policy. She built the Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon’s climate justice program, and worked on the campaign for the Portland Clean Energy Fund. Now, she’s heading to Salem, where she will serve in the House of Representatives representing East Portland. Pham will also be the only Asian American lawmaker in the state, representing Oregon’s fastest growing demographic. She joins us.

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