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Facilitator:

Duncan Autrey, facilitator@seattlegreens.org

Bio not available.

Secretary:

Dave Jette, secretary@seattlegreens.org, (206)789-8660

Dave has been active in progressive electoral politics since serving as Corresponding Secretary of the Washington State Rainbow Coalition in 1989-90. He was the Secretary of Larry Gossett’s first (successful) campaign for King County Council in 1993, and the Secretary of the Washington State organization supporting Ralph Nader’s Presidential campaign in 1996. Since 1999 he has been the Treasurer of the electoral campaigns of six Greens, including Brita Butler-Wall’s successful Seattle School Board campaign in 2003. He was also the Treasurer of Seattle Progressive Coalition in 1999 and of Peace Action of Washington in 2003. Dave has been a member of the Green Party of Seattle for six years, and he served as GPoS Secretary previously, in 2001. Professionally, he is a medical physicist, carrying out research to improve the radiation treatment of cancer for almost thirty years; he is the Executive Director of the Lawrence H. Lanzl Institute of Medical Physics in Seattle, and a Professor of Medical Physics at Rush University in Chicago.

Treasurer:

Melody Roberts, treasurer@seattlegreens.org

Bio not available.

Electoral Coordinator:

Alan Lloyd, electoral@seattlegreens.org

Bio not available.

Issues Coordinator:

Sarah Luthens, issues@seattlegreens.org

Sarah Luthens works as a political organizer on the Death with Dignity/ Yes on 1,000 campaign with former Governor Booth Gardner and others. She serves on the regional executive committee of the American Friends Service Committee, the advisory board of Real Change News, and the steering committee of LGBTQ Allyship. Several years ago she helped to co-found the Community Alliance for Global Justice in the wake of the WTO protests (www.seattleglobaljustice.org).

A native of Iowa, Luthens worked as a union organizer and a labor contract negotiator in the Seattle area for about 15 years. After graduating from the University of Washington School of Law in the early 1990s, she organized nurses with SEIU 1199NW. Later she helped organize the successful 5th Avenue Theatre “Beauty & the Beast” strike, working with musicians in 1997. Luthens served as a delegate to the Martin Luther King Jr. County Labor Council and participated in dozens of the labor council’s political COPE interviews. She was a co-founder of the Out Front Labor Coalition, which was the Seattle chapter of Pride At Work AFL-CIO— an LGBTQ constituency group of the labor movement.

Luthens has also worked for Lambda Legal and has won several civic awards from local LGBT non-profits. Luthens was instrumental in successful campaigns to pass local Equal Benefits Ordinances, requiring major governmental contractors to offer domestic-partner benefits to employees on the same basis as spousal benefits are offered.

Luthens has served on the steering committees of a number of successful electoral campaigns, including Bob Hasegawa for state legislature (2004 & 2006), Brita Butler-Wall for Seattle school board (2003), and Nick Licata for Seattle city council (1997).

Luthens helps to raise her teenage godson. She played for several years on the Green Party soccer team. She and her beloved partner live in south Seattle.

Membership Coordinator:

Brita Butler-Wall, membership@seattlegreens.org

Dr. Brita Butler-Wall is the former President of the Seattle School Board, elected to nonpartisan office in 2003. She has a 30-year career in higher education focusing on linguistic minorities and teacher education. Brita joined the Green Party of Seattle in 2000, serving as secretary and then facilitator. A parent of two, she has also been active in Ravenna neighborhood organizations, Seattle Council of PTA, and state professional associations. In 1997, Brita co-founded and directed the Citizens’ Campaign for Commercial-Free Schools, which removed corporate advertising in all 100 Seattle schools. She currently sits on the board of Commercial Alert, a national advocacy group.

Outreach Coordinator:

Kenneth Randolf, outreach@seattlegreens.org

Bio not available.