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Kayse Jama

Oregon

State Senate, District 24

Incumbent

Jama was born in Somalia and considers it a lifetime honor to be the first former refugee, Black Muslim and Somali-American to serve in the Oregon State Senate. Jama says “As your SD 24 Senator representing one of the most diverse districts in our state, I come to Salem with high hopes knowing that my lived experience and my two decades of advocacy and organizing skills needed to be translated into real policy change, particularly for Black, Indigenous, people of color, immigrants and refugees, low-income Oregonians and rural communities. I am committed to bringing all my years of deep, on the ground relationships and the voices of our entire community with me and working to pass policies aimed at changing all our lives for the better.”

Jama currently serves as the Chair of the Senate Housing and Development Committee​ and as a membersof the Senate Labor and Business Committee and the Joint Ways and Means Subcommittee on Transportation and Economic Development.”

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Unless stated below: this is an independent expenditure prepared and paid for by Voice for Refuge Action Fund, P.O. Box 1933, 28606 Phillips Street, Elkhart, IN 46515, Erol Kekic, Executive Director, and no candidate authorized this ad – it is not coordinated with, authorized by, or approved by any candidate or candidate’s committee, nor is any candidate responsible for it.