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Matt Morton speaks at the fourth annual NAYA Family Center Gala, held at the Portland Art Museum in 2007.
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Marcus Mundy, president of the Urban League of Portland; Jason Lim from the Asian Reporter; and Matt Morton, board chair of the NAYA Family Center, at the fifth annual NAYA Family Center Gala.
Photography by Eddie Sherman
Matt Morton and Native American elder Buzz Nelson testify before the Portland Public School Board in 2009.
Photography by Jason Lim
Matt Morton; Nichole Maher, the executive director of NAYA Family Center; and Lois Chilcott, Native American elder and NAYA board member, prepare to welcome students on the first day of school at the
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Only 34 percent of Native American students in Portland Public Schools graduate within four years. It’s a number that Matt Morton—board chair for the Native American Youth and Family Center, or NAYA, a 35-year-old advocacy and resource center for Portland’s nearly 38,000 Native Americans—takes personally.
In 2006, NAYA—which has seen its annual budget grow from $250,000 to $8 million in the past seven years—established a housing de...
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