Think Out Loud

Julie Esparza Brown has devoted her career to education. She’s an associate professor in the Special Education Department at Portland State University. And since 2015, she has served on the Portland Public Schools board. Esparza Brown recently announced that she won’t run for a second term on the board. We talk with her about what the past four years have been like and what it has meant to her to be the only person of color on the PPS board.