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Street Roots vendor profile: Roy Cochran

Roy uses his Street Roots money to pay for his phone and support his lifelong hobby: music Roy Cochran says he is rough around the edges but reveals he has a big heart and a taste for classical music. He was born in Toppenish, Washington, on the Yakima I ...

5 Nov 2015 - Leonora Ko
Vendor Harry Richards moves inside

Vendor Harry Richards got his apartment keys this past week and has moved inside. “Thank you, thank you, thank you, Street Roots!” Harry said. “Through my own hard work, I’m back inside! Street Roots supported me and kept me in papers when I had hard time ...

17 Sep 2015 - Street Roots Staff
Street Roots vendor profile: Billy Meyer

“I started selling newspapers. I felt that I had a purpose in life, that dying was not a good idea.” Billy Meyer has lost family members, but he has found a new family. His first family adopted him when he and his twin sister were 3 days old. “I grew up ...

3 Sep 2015 - Leonora Ko
Street Roots vendor profile: Maddy Brown-Clark

Maddy Brown-Clark says being part of Street Roots has given her a sense of belonging Maddy Brown-Clark has always been surrounded by music. When she was a baby, Brown-Clark’s mother and her mother’s cousin would dance around while cradling her in their ar ...

13 Aug 2015 - Christine Menges
Hard work pays off vendor Jermaine Johnson lands a job

Jermaine Johnson likes living in a place that has low crime and no hurricanes. He lived through Hurricane Katrina, with his home knocked off its foundation, alligators in the streets, and a local man robbed and shot for his shoes. When Jermaine moved to S ...

27 Mar 2015 - Leonora Ko
Vendor profile: Kim Etherton

Kim began selling Street Roots again this year after a few years’ hiatus. In early February, she brought her son into the office to go through orientation. She said it would give him some extra spending money while he found his footing after a lengthy hos ...

19 Mar 2015 - Sam Bouman
Creating positive change one sale at a time

Vendor profile: Andie Howard For Andie Howard, a day vending for Street Roots is a whole lot more than selling papers. It’s a starting place, the first step to creating positive change in the community and in her own life as well. “I’m very proud of Stree ...

3 Mar 2015 - Aaron von Reyn
Vendor profile: Charles and Aileen

Chances are, if you’ve been out to St. Johns on the weekends, you’ve run into Aileen or Charles at their selling spots two blocks apart on North Lombard. Whether it’s a soggy Saturday farmers’ market or a lazy, sunny Sunday, you’ll be greeted by the warmt ...

18 Feb 2015 - Aaron von Reyn
Vendor Profile: Robert Egan

Now that Robert Egan has a full-time job, the only time he and I see each other these days are very early on Saturday mornings. Hence, our interview occurs at the Street Roots front desk during the excitement and hubbub of an early morning Saturday of a n ...

27 Jan 2015 - Cole Merkel
Vendor Profile: Paul Ortiz

On a cold, spitting December afternoon Paul Ortiz walks from the food carts at Southwest Third Avenue and Stark Street back to the Street Roots office to check his mail and pick up more papers. He moves with long strides but keeps his head up to scan Thir ...

7 Jan 2015 - Sam Bouman

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