About

WHPDX MEDIA GROUP: What’s happening PDX is a non-profit online networking blogazine that allows the Portland urban community the opportunity to network and read about community events online. Our mission is to serve as the premier resource for connecting aspiring and accomplished minorities in Oregon. Our goal is to share ideas about our community on Twitter, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and YouTube. The “What’s Happening PDX” website will publicize important news, events, and activities that affect the local urban culture.

By using the proceeds of “What’s Happening PDX” to provide home computers to less fortunate urban youth, he aims to introduce them to networks and positive leaders than can help them in reaching their goals.

EDITOR AND CHIEF: RahMiel has a Bachelor of Science in Management. He combines this traditional education with his knowledge of cutting-edge technology to share his passion for bettering the lives of minority students. He also hopes to explore the use of how Internet media can build a community and create value for local residents.
When RahMiel isn’t involved in the website, he enjoys traveling the world playing baseball, and has enjoyed games everywhere from Alaska to Japan.

CONTRIBUTOR: In 2009, after returning to Portland, Oregon, Lavish Language was introduced to the music and lav1 entertainment industry. She worked for a music marketing and promotions company, beginning as an intern with ambitions to write for the company’s magazine. Within her first six months she became the lead writer for them, and was also featured in several other local magazines, before joining with What’s Happening PDX. She has published over 100 editorials, articles, and interviews with both major and independent artists. She has done freelance publicity work with a wide array of west coast artists and dappled in many additional aspects of the entertainment industry like modeling, spoken word poetry, album features with local artists, and promotions with prospects of film and television in the near future.

CONTRIBUTOR: Lisa Nimmagadda has lived in Portland, Oregon for over two decades. Her passions include fashion, lia11 film, Portland, punk rock, cooking, and—of course—entertaining readers like you. In 2006, she found salvation through writing. She now happily attends Portland State University where she is finishing her BA in Communication Studies with a minor in writing.

CONTRIBUTOR: Diezel P is Portland, OR Native who has had a passion for writing as far back as he can remember. As diezelp a child he would write short fictional stories provided with illustrations to bring to life his vivid imagination. He excelled as an English and Writing student all through school and began to express his creative mind through poetry and rhyming as a teenager. After three projects and a locally popular album titled “Write Now!” released in Fall 2008, he would be considered a notable Hip Hop artist amongst the Portland scene, and highly respected for the contributions he makes towards the community he grew up in. Diezel P is now back on the path he once followed as a teenager, proving that Hip Hop can be used as a tool to benefit, educate, and positively promote the Urban community.

VIDEO/DIGITAL MEDIA: Keith Weldon has been a Professional Videographer/Director/Producer since 2005 Co-produced a pacific northwest reality TV show “The Making Of A Magazine” and is currently the producer of all “Speakeasy Lingerie” music video commercials. Keith has recorded many events, concerts, weddings and interviews he’s a well established videographer who can articulate any subject line and shoot it as if he was making a motion picture for tinsel town. High Definition Video and sometimes attaches a 35mm adapter to his camera which provides depth of field to show a more movie like appearance. they say a picture speaks a thousand words and Keith says his videos expresses a million ways a thousand words could be viewed. Keith captures the shot that no one seems to catch; this is what makes him a delighted favorite in the field of videography.

VIDEO/DIGITAL MEDIA: Adam N. is a Digital Media Specialist with two years formal training in Video production field from The Art Institute of Seattle. He has six practical years in the field experience with video production (pre & post). 10 years experience with other digital media (Photoshop / darkroom / etc). Five years experience in audio production, sample sound recording, mobile productions.

WEBMASTER: Kyle Foreman brings over six years of web design and media experience from his previous company where he served as Producer and IT Manager. He played a key role in expanding the television show “This Week in Real Estate” from two small cities in Oregon to over thirty nationwide in his first two years at the former Lush Productions. Currently, he assists clients and companies throughout Oregon with web site and IT needs through his near two year old venture, Kmantech LLC. A lifetime resident of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, Kyle holds a degree in Management Information Systems from the Oregon Institute of Technology.