In 2017, Prosper Portland and Travel Portland hosted the first My People’s Market, a new version of a smaller event highlighting business owners, artists, and performers of color. It was a sort of living, breathing Mercatus, Prosper Portland’s directory of Black, Indigenous, and people of color-owned businesses: The event hosted musicians, dancers, chefs, artists, and craftspeople, selling everything from bottled sauces to earrings.
My People’s Market was a collaboration between four founders: Amanda Park, Tamara Kennedy-Hill, Michelle Comer, and Tory Campbell, the former director of economic development at Prosper Portland. Campbell, who also owns sauce-and-spice-rub company Felton & Mary’s, left Prosper Portland earlier this year, but this weekend’s
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