Protecting Our Immigrant Neighbors
Connecting Our Communities
Building a Better Beaverton
Who is Evelyn Kocher?
Evelyn is a lifelong Oregonian who grew up in Washington County and Beaverton. She graduated from Beaverton High School, and Oregon State University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and International Studies. Evelyn is a queer trans woman, a first-generation immigrant, an experienced activist, and a established public advocate.
Evelyn’s political achievements in Oregon are longstanding and far-reaching:
As a communications manager at Latino Network, Evelyn has spent the last four years directing communication priorities that support Latine communities throughout Oregon.
In 2022, she worked alongside Oregon political leaders to craft and pass landmark healthcare legislation to protect reproductive and gender-affirming rights for all Oregonians (HB 2002).
As campaign manager for Angelita Morillo, she directed the successful race of one of Portland’s most progressive elected officials.
While working with the Oregon Student Association, Evelyn organized students of color across the state in community colleges and public universities to build coalitions with local and state political leaders in the Oregon legislature, and advocated for students’ constitutional rights.
Evelyn has served on multiple boards, including the City of Beaverton’s Transportation System Plan Community Advisory Committee, the ACLU of Oregon, Basic Rights Oregon PAC, Oregon Voice, and the Westside Queer Resource Center.
Evelyn fights for data-driven, inclusive, and progressive solutions to solve the unique challenges facing Beaverton’s diverse communities and local businesses.
As a City Councilor, Evelyn will continue to protect the rights of all Beavertonians, stand up against the establishment , and work to make our city safe and affordable for all of us.
We need a fierce advocate on the City Council to represent our families, neighbors, and local businesses, and to protect our city’s resources for the future. Evelyn Kocher will advocate for and support sensible, progressive, data-focused solutions for all Beavertonians.
Beaverton is facing skyrocketing utility costs, housing shortages, the growing dangers of government surveillance, and impending environmental catastrophes driven by regional data-centre construction. However, Beaverton’s City Council has repeatedly passed legislation that protects the wants of the wealthy over the needs of the many, which has led to a growing budget deficit and cuts to local services that support our community.
MY PRIORITIES ARE
Protecting our constitutional rights against increasing government surveillance by banning Flock cameras in Beaverton.
Protecting immigrant communities by advocating for people abducted by immigration officers without due process, educating the public on their constitutional rights, and seeking to codify these rights in local ordinances.
Protecting Beaverton’s environmental resources by supporting a localized moratorium on the construction of datacenters. This would also lower utility costs for Beaverton residents and businesses .
Providing safe, affordable housing by implementing rent control policies in our majority-renter city, streamlining zoning and permitting processes to construct new housing, and addressing housing insecurity with wrap-around services.
Improving Beaverton’s transportation services with a extensive and equitable transportation system, and prioritizing transit-oriented development to densify our downtown areas and create a pedestrian-centered space where residents and businesses alike can thrive.
Advancing LGBTQ+ rights and reproductive rights by making Beaverton a gender-affirming care and abortion care sanctuary city – like so many other Oregon cities have over the past few years.
Corporate tax reform and the implementation of a road use fee for electric vehicles to make big business and the wealthy pay their share for infrastructure maintenance.
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