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Mary Elise Cadera (CPA) has spent the last 10 years of toiling as a financial manager for a variety of locally-grown companies. In her spare time, she serves as our illustrious Board President. From taxes to treasury, internal control to budgeting, her work has taken her all over the accounting spectrum. To stay sane, she heads to the mountains as often as possible to ride her snowboard. She digs music and visual art, and enjoys checking out shows around town - particularly if they showcase local talent. |
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Jake Faleschini has always believed in youth voter activation. For that reason - and that reason alone - he organized Vote Naked! at his alma mater, Reed College. Jake dabbled in sending bad guys to prison after college, working for NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. He returned to the Northwest to attend law school at the UDub, where he served as the graduate student body president. Jake threw away a perfectly good legal education to work in politics. He served as research and communications director for Initiative 1098 before founding Sound Policy Consulting, where he advises progressive candidates and organizations. He, his wife Martha, and their pug Rocky can be found eating frozen yogurt in Capitol Hill. |
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Joe Fitzgibbon's passion for fighting climate change, promoting transit, and working for smart land use policies is only matched by his enthusiasm for getting more young people involved in politics. He lives in Burien, which you may know as "by the airport." In his free time he represents West Seattle, Burien, White Center, and Vashon and Maury Islands in the state House of Representatives, where he is currently the youngest member. He got to know and love the Bus when they helped him get elected in 2010 by knocking on thousands of doors for him and other progressive candidates. |
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Hailing from Battle Ground, Noel Frame wears her rural roots as a badge of honor. She currently serves as the Washington State Director of Progressive Majority. Noel announced her run for the White House in the second grade and hasn’t been able to stay away from politics since. She went to college and grad school in Washington, DC, served as a legislative staffer in the U.S. Senate and campaigned for two presidential candidates, a congressman and a ballot initiative. Noel is an amateur photographer and is obsessed with IMDB. She exhibits scary organizational skills, and in her spare time likes to make to-do lists. |
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Alissa Haslam hales from the distant land of Rochester, NY but has been in the northwest long enough to have lost the accent (hopefully). After getting her master's in Anthropology, she got sucked away from the world of independent bookstores into politics where she has worked to further LGBT and women's rights. She is currently working with the Progress Alliance of WA. She spends most of her time on DIY home (re)construction and you can often find her on the streets of the Central District walking and talking to her dog. Alissa's claim to Bus fame (well, not really fame) is that she has ridden on 3 different buses in the Bus Federation: Oregon, Colorado, and WA. |
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EJ Juarez is a Field Organizer for Central Washington Progress in Yakima where he works to elevate underrepresented communities to positions of power and engage young people through innovative campaigns. EJ was introduced to the Bus in 2008 as a campaign manager who thought he won the political equivalent to the Lotto when the Bus supported his candidate. Little did he know that, along with local volunteers, we would "Hit 5000" by visiting over five-thousand with youth power! It was Bus love at first knock! When not at work, you may find EJ living the dream through DJ Hero, catching a basketball game or indulging in his guilty pleasure: tracking the British music chart battles. |
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Kristina Logsdon first developed her organizing skills working as a field organizer with the Washington Toxics Coalition, where she became acutely aware of the inequities between communities and elected officials. As Racial Justice Campaign Coordinator for Progressive Majority, Kristina recruited and trained progressive candidates of color for public office. Under her tenure she helped to elect Washington State’s first Samoan-American elected official. Kristina is now Political Director with the Win/Win Network where she manages the Ballot Initiative Network and works to empower underserved communities in Central Washington. In her spare time, she hikes, quilts, knits, and plays Rock Band. |
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After catching the Bus bug at Oregon Bus Project events in Portland, Alison Mondi eagerly sought out the equally amazing Washington Bus, and she joined the board in 2008. Alison is communications director for NARAL Pro-Choice Washington, a grassroots pro-choice political advocacy organization. In 2004, Alison moved from historic Massachusetts, where she was born and raised, headed west to Portland to join the staff of a congressional campaign, and then worked as a legislative aide in Salem. When not working long hours for progressive political change, Alison enjoys trivia contests of all sorts, seeing live music, and nursing her nerd crush on Michael Cera. |
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Chris McCullough is a strategist at Groundwire, where he advises non-profit clients on constituent engagement, campaign strategy and technology. Before joining Groundwire in 2010, Chris spent nine years managing and consulting on political campaigns. He was the deputy director for the Obama campaign in Washington state and managed the successful I-937, a statewide renewable energy initiative. He served as the campaign director for U.S. Representative Jay Inslee and consulted for a variety of local, state and national campaigns and organizations.
As a co-founder of the Washington Bus, Chris can remember the days before the Bus had a bus. He is a brown belt in Google-fu and recently joined a 12-step program for people addicted to online comment threads.
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A northwest native, Dylan Ordoñez moved to Seattle from Oregon in early 2008 after graduating from Willamette University. He has worked in the Oregon Legislature (where he became familiar with the Oregon Bus!) as well as for political campaigns, most recently managing Dow Constantine's campaign for King County Executive. He is reminded daily by both Huskies and Cougs alike about how his affinity for the Oregon Ducks disgusts the average Washingtonian, yet his affinity never wavers. Dylan currently works in Executive Constantine's Office as his Executive Leadership Team Coordinator and stays busy outside the office playing soccer a couple times a week. |
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David A. Perez is an attorney with Perkins Coie in Seattle. David received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was the Development Editor of the Yale Journal of International Law, and his B.A. from Gonzaga University. After law school David clerked on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Before joining Perkins, David was the Assistant Director of the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law & Equality at Seattle University School of Law, where he focused on civil rights appeals and helped draft -- and testified in favor of -- the Washington State Voting Rights Act. On the weekends, David uses his key to St. Anne's basketball court to put together weekly pick up games where he does a spot-on impersonation of Jeff Hornacek (minus the shooting ability and minus the basketball skills). |
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A native of gritty Tacoma, April Sims works for the Washington Federation of State Employees (WFSE/AFSCME). She's served on other boards and committees - but they don't roll like the Bus. When April's not thinking about politics, advocating for union families or fighting for social justice, she's trying to prove her "cost-per-wear" shoe buying theory. |
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Michael White is from Lake Tapps (Where? Oh, northeast Pierce County). Michael started volunteering in a fire department at 18 and working in the emergency medical field. He was hired as a career firefighter in 2006 and works in Auburn. But he didn’t stop there; he’s on the executive board of his local firefighter’s union. When he’s not working, going to school, fighting for working families, and kicking it with the Bus, he spends his little remaining time with his girlfriend, traveling, enjoying whatever music may be in town, and playing a mean game of pickleball (Yeah that’s right; pickleball). |
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