What is your name? My name is Somaly Jaramillo Hurtado.

Alias? No alias, just Somaly

Where were you born and where do you call home? I was born in Buenaventura, the most important port in the Pacific Coast of Colombia. However, I studied and worked many years in Cali, Colombia. I really like living in Cali, but my family live in Buenaventura, and for that reason Buenaventura is still my place, it is my home.

Something fun you like to do? I really enjoy traveling.

Name of the last movie you saw and give it a rating: “Divergent” rate: 2/5 stars

In which graduate program are you enrolled? I am enrolled in the Community and Regional Planning master program. I really like the diversity of classes the program has, but I am interested in the environmental planning and community development fields.

What Community Planning Workshop (CPW)  project did you worked on during the academic year? I lived an exciting learning experience with the County Market Analysis for a Year-Round Regional Public Market /Food Hub”. It is a socio-economic development project with the purpose of better understand the demand for a public market with some functions of a food hub. We found that residents in Eugene and Springfield could support a public market because there is an increasing interest and movement around local food. Not only several people want to buy local food and would like to go once per week to a public market, but also the number of local food’s farmers and organizations that promote and support local food in Lane County is growing.

What is most critical skill you learned from being engaged in CPW this past year? As planner and as graduate student this project let me develop several skills such as public speaking, writing reports, organizing meeting agendas, interviewing, researching, and analyzing information.

What about CPW made you smile? Working in team makes me smile. I had a really nice and funny team.

What are your big summer plans? Just to work on my two internships and on my thesis project.