Street Roots vendor profile | Selling the newspaper offers a different experience

Joshua says selling the paper has changed his interactions with those around him

Editor’s note: Street Roots has allowed the NW Examiner to share profiles of vendors who primarily work in our neighborhoods.

By Melissa Loveridge

For Joshua Valdez, becoming a vendor with Street Roots was a game changer.

“I got involved with Street Roots because they were (some of the) very few people in Portland that (were) willing to admit that they wou…