_{BEND, ORE.}
Eliza Wilson is a little nervous as she draws the microphone close to her, but she is determined to share her life story — and its larger lessons — with a vital new audience. “My father was a disabled veteran,” she says. “I first experienced homelessness when I was 5 years old.”

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