What do you do when you’re not at work? I have a baby, so that’s all-consuming. I’m an hour from my door to Timberline, and I ski a lot. And I have a border collie, because having a baby isn’t busy enough. So I run around Mt. Tabor a lot with my stroller and my border collie. I like to be outside. What is on the horizon for Dress for Success, in terms of either needs that you anticipate or your plans? Our goal is that we can continue to be nimble to the needs of our clients and that we can continue to see the 1,000-plus women we do a year and the ways that are best going to support them as they’re looking for work, sustaining work and finding livable-wage jobs. One short-term goal that we have this year is, as a 501(c)3, we obviously can’t share our political views, but what we can do is empower people to vote, so in 2020 we registered 170 new voters. We know Multnomah County has that new ranking system. So we have scheduled for the summer both a voter-registration workshop and a demystifying of that new ranking system. So much of our work is self-defined success and autonomy. And so what success means to one of our clients may mean something totally different to someone else, so the question is, how do we help prioritize all the resources and information they need to be able to find the avenue that works best for them? PHOTOS BY JASON E. KAPLAN 14
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