Board
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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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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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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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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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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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