Candace Avalos is a candidate for Portland City Council in District 1 (East Portland).
Avalos is the Executive Director of Verde, an environmental advocacy organization. Her resume includes chairing the City of Portland’s Citizen Review Committee, a police oversight board, and serving on the Portland Charter Commission, the volunteer board that designed and referred Portland’s charter reform measure to the ballot.
A 2019 alumna of Emerge, a training program for Democratic women, Avalos unsuccessfully ran for City Council in 2020. She is a 2024 graduate of the Oregon Labor Candidate School, a training program for pro-labor candidates, and serves as a Committee Precinct Person for the Multnomah County Democrats.
Avalos’ campaign priorities include public safety, expanding Portland Street Response (the city’s non-police crisis response team), addressing housing and homelessness, investing in transportation and infrastructure, supporting small business and workforce development, and tackling environmental and climate issues.
Avalos has committed to the ‘Save Portland Street Response’ pledge, vowing to prioritize, introduce, and vote in favor of full funding for Portland Street Response to operate 24-7 in every budget cycle. Additionally, she has signed the ‘No Fossil Fuel Money’ pledge, committing not to accept contributions of over $200 from the oil, gas, and coal industries, and the ‘No Police Money Pledge’, rejecting contributions or endorsements from police unions or associations.
To learn more about Candace Avalos and for a full list of endorsements, please visit her campaign website.
Media links:
- League of Women Voters Candidate Interview: Candace Avalos
- KATU: District 1 Candidate Forum
- Willamette Week: City Council Entrance Interview
- Rose City Reform: Proportional Portland
- Willamette Week: Northwest Oregon Labor Council Endorses City Council Candidates
- Rose City Reform: Meet the Candidates!
- Portland Mercury: Portland City Council Candidates: District 1
- A Ballot Initiative Crafted by the Portland Police Union Seeks to Alter Function of Future Police Oversight Body
- Progress Portland Podcast: Candace Avalos, District 1 Candidate
- KOIN: Candace Avalos aims to create ‘a better Portland’ with City Council run
- Rose City Reform: “We can’t let our guard down and take our eyes off charter reform.”
- Willamette Week: Here’s Why Prominent Black Activists Say They Fear Opening Their Mailboxes