Meet the Team
The life of a blogger is often shrouded in enigma, and if you're like most internet trolls users, you've probably fallen prey to many of the common blogger stereotypes. Common examples: Bloggers hold terrible power over your fragile mind. Bloggers gladhand with high-powered corporate executives in between posts. Most, if not all bloggers were once in ABBA. Bloggers cannot be killed. Or that blogging and proper hygiene must be antithetical.
Hella Bus is here to prove at least half of those things wrong!
To prove the humanity of Hella Bus's illustrious blogging team, each writer has provided a brief introduction to tell you a little about them and the life of a Hella Bus blogger (although we can't show you the handshake).
Editorial note: You may notice that some intros are in 3rd person, others are in 1st, and for others it's difficult to determine (Leah). Rather than align them all, we'll just leave it and let their choice of perspective influence your conclusions about their character.
Follow the link below and say hello to the awesome crew making Hella Bus happen this spring!
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Devin Glaser is the extreme caricature of one of those coffee-gulping, bicycle-riding Seattle-Metropolitan-Area urban progressives. He blames it all on his upbringing by a pack of adopted lesbians and not four, but seven years at The Evergreen State College. When not arguing against regressive tax policies over the Internet, he teaches 2nd and 3rd graders math and spelling at a local non-profit before-and-after-school program. He apologizes in advance for his indiscriminate use of hyphens all over Hella Bus.
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Elliot Helmbrecht
I grew up in Hutchinson, Minnesota, a little town in the central part of the state. Okay, I know what you’re thinking right now. And the answer is no. I don’t talk like I’m an extra in the movie Fargo, but I do enjoy an old-fashioned hotdish and Garrison Keillor. After I graduated from high school I moved to Seattle to attend college at the University of Washington. I majored in Political Science after two years of taking classes in what seemed like almost every department available. While at the UW, I got an introduction to state politics working in the Office of Government Relations for the Associated Students. This is where you would typically see a quote equating the process of making sausage and legislation, but my experience in this position left me wanting more. It was a great opportunity to see how policies were created and negotiated. It was also a powerful lesson in learning how hard work and community involvement can really have a positive effect on the legislators in Olympia. I would eventually like to go back to school, but before I take on that endeavor (and more pesky student loans), I’ve been enjoying this thing called the “real world” that I always heard so much about.
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Everett Rummage
Born and raised in Seattle, Everett Rummage has recently returned home from a mercifully brief exile in Washington, DC, where he studied at The George Washington University. In the political realm, he's worked for the Howard Dean presidential campaign, Congressman Jim McDermott, and the Democratic Party of Arlington, Virginia. He was a regular contributor to the late, lamented online magazine Seattlest and edited GW's student music magazine The Cellar for one glorious semester. He can speak French and is a fearsome competitor at darts.
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Jack Coughlin
I've lived in Seattle my whole life, but only recently begun to listen to local politics. My interests run more towards national issues, and the question of how we can help the most people achieve the most with their lives; to that end, I hope to be able to help tell the progressive story about good government and positive freedoms. By day, I'm a student layabout at the University of Washington studying math and Comparative History of Ideas. By night, I read science fiction and go on fair-weather bike rides. My dream job is to be Paul Krugman, and my dream celebrity encounter is Bob Dylan and Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Leah Menzer
Hello Fancy Feasts! Nice to meet you!
You may remember me from such hits as “the one time I posted on Hella Bus about McGruff the Crime Dog” or “Washington Bus Summer Fellows 2011”. You may also remember me from the time I threw up in fifth grade while giving a speech to my entire elementary school. You may not! Either way, I think we are going to make beautiful music together, here on this blog.
I spent the bulk of my youthful splendor in Seattle (go Bulldogs!), and have just
entered the ultimate and final semester studying Political Science at American
University in Washington, DC. You may be wondering how I am qualified to write
about the gentle nuance of Washington state politics from ALL THE WAY over on the other side of the country. Well…
- There’s this thing called the Internet, you guys, we’re all connected now. We’ve also got dynamophones and telegraphs and skypes.
- DC and the Evergreen State are more similar than you might think. They both have: “Georgetowns” and “Capitol Hills”. They both have Union Stations! DC has a “Takoma” and Washington has a “Tacoma”.
If I list any more similarities it will get into state secret territory, so PM me for more information on the Washington/Washington conspiracy if you can handle it.
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Lucas Barash-David
A Junior majoring in Political Science and English Literature at the University of
Washington, Lucas has enjoyed a life-long obsession with politics. He has organized
for United Students Against Sweatshops, worked on the executive board of Young
Democrats at the UW, and served as an editor at the UW’s Undergraduate Law
Review. The first concert he ever went to was the Beastie Boys, it was awesome.
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