Jenn Chávez
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Host/Producer, The Evergreen @OPB // Proud member @OPBKMHDCreators // Reppin’ community radio // HMU: jchavez at opb dot org // I regret to inform you
Portland, OR
Joined October 2013
You can find all our episodes of The Evergreen - a podcast about the place you call home - on your favorite pod app or right here:. Follow me on IG or Bsky for regular updates on what we got cookin. New episodes every Monday morning. With love: onward!.
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@ryanjhaas Check out Ryan's original reporting on the AI takeover of a former Southern Oregon newspaper - and what it means for local journalism in our state - here:
Last month, I fell down an absolutely bizarre rabbit hole trying to figure out who was ripping off articles from Oregon journalists. What I found was identity theft, plagiarism and an absolutely terrifying future for local journalism led by AI scammers.
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Today on The Evergreen 🌲 .New articles are posted almost daily on the website of The Ashland Daily Tidings. But. the paper closed in 2023. So what’s the deal? It involves AI, & the hope that readers who once trusted the paper won’t notice. W @ryanjhaas: .
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The Ashland Daily Tidings, a newspaper in Southern Oregon, shut down in 2023 after nearly 150 years in business. So…why are new articles being posted on its former website nearly every day? Who’s...
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ICYMI, this week on The Evergreen:.Did you know the PNW’s most active volcano is at the bottom of the ocean, 300 miles off the OR coast? .We head out to sea with the scientists studying the Axial Seamount - who predict it’ll erupt again in the next year 🌋.
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Scientists have been studying the Axial Seamount for decades. They predict it’ll erupt again in 2025.
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Today on The Evergreen 🌲 .The history lessons many of us learned about salmon in the NW aren’t the whole story. We’re sharing ep1 of Salmon Wars, which tells the story of NW salmon thru a Yakama Nation family who’ve been fighting for them for generations:.
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We’re sharing an episode from another OPB podcast: “Salmon Wars.” It tells the story of salmon in the Northwest in a way you haven’t heard before — through the voices of one Yakama Nation family who...
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I had the great honor of hosting a panel with poets Danez Smith & Diannely Antigua about their deeply beautiful books Bluff & Good Monster, & today you can hear it on OPB's Think Out Loud. Listen live on OPB at 12pm & 8pm, or anytime you want right here:
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We spoke with poets Danez Smith and Diannely Antigua at the 2024 Portland Book Festival.
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Today on OPB's The Evergreen 🌲.What makes where you live your home? What is it that makes us feel at home here? And what does “at home” even mean? .We revisit our first episode, which explores these questions with our friends at OPB & in our audience:.
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This week, we’re listening back to our very first episode, which explores the meaning of home.
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Today on OPB's The Evergreen 🌲.As KMHD celebrates 40 years, we learn about Portland's history as a jazz city: from the post-WWII golden era, when jazz thrived in Albina, to today's vibrant scene. AND we reflect w KMHD host Ted Smith aka The Baby Boomer!!
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Portland might not be the first place that comes to mind when you think of jazz music, but the city’s been attracting jazz stars and fostering local jazz talent for practically a century. We take the...
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RT @ryanjhaas: Last month, I fell down an absolutely bizarre rabbit hole trying to figure out who was ripping off articles from Oregon jour….
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The Ashland Daily Tidings — established as a newspaper in 1876 — ceased operations in 2023, but if you were a local reader, you may not have known because of an elaborate scam using artificial...
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This week on OPB's The Evergreen 🌲 .OR law allows psilocybin therapy in licensed service centers. But what if you’re too sick to get there?.Jane C. Hu brings us the story of 4 facilitators fighting to expand home access for patients w terminal illnesses:.
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Oregon law allows psilocybin therapy in licensed service centers. But what if you’re too sick to go to one?
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Today on OPB's The Evergreen 🌲.We take you to the historic OK Theatre - a fixture in rural Enterprise, OR for over a century. Today, it’s owned by a couple who’s reimagined it as a music venue that attracts touring musicians to their very small community.
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Ten years ago, Darrell and Christi Brann bought the 100-year-old OK Theatre in Enterprise, Oregon and began reimagining it as a live music venue. Now, they’re able to attract world-class talent to...
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Perhaps you have some free time coming up to listen to a nice podcast, such as OPB's The Evergreen! . Were you to do so this week, you'd learn abt NW Indigenous peoples' relationship w Sasquatch, from 3 Native artists who've created works abt the being:.
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The exhibit showcases Native American interpretations of the being known as Sasquatch, Bigfoot or “the big guy.”
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Read @AprilEhrlich @McKenzieFunk & Tony Schick's reporting on one controversial timber sale in Southern Oregon -- part of a logging project that was shelved immediately after Biden's EO, but is now back on:
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In Oregon’s Coast Range, mature forests can absorb more carbon per acre than almost any other on the planet. Yet logging here continues at a steady pace, putting the environment at risk.
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Today on The Evergreen 🌲.In '22, Biden signed an EO to protect mature/old growth forests on fed lands. But reporting by OPB & ProPublica shows, more than 2 yrs later, these forests were still being cut under Biden's watch -- nearly as much as under Trump.
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Today, we’re talking about how logging has continued in western Oregon — the heart of the nation’s remaining old-growth forests.
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Just a boring little reminder that this website sucks & that if you are a person who follows me but no longer enjoys being here & would like to find me on Another Site you could probably easily do that by searching my full name 😇.
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Today on The Evergreen 🌲.I sat down with OPB's photo editor Kristyna Wentz-Graff to talk about her work documenting the PNW in images, the narrative & ethical choices that go into that every day, & focusing on the humanity of the people in her photos:.
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OPB's Photo Editor sits down with us to break down the decisions that go into taking photographs and choosing which ones will accompany stories. We discuss photography for elections, protests,...
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RT @nicoleMfoy: Why is @RussContreras always reading my mind. You read any history of the Chicano movement or the UFW or something & the….
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Anti-immigrant sentiment among Latinos has existed since the 1930s.
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RT @alex_zee: Carmen Rubio has called Keith Wilson to concede in the mayor's race. ""In terms of our next mayor, I’m glad that we have so….
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RT @alex_zee: In the second dump of ballot counts, Keith Wilson maintains in the lead in the Portland mayor's race. Estimated 115k ballots….
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