Mayor-elect Jenny Durkan released the full roster of her 61-member transition team today.
As Durkan announced last week, Plymouth Housing Executive Director Paul Lambros, Transportation Choices Coalition Executive Director Shefali Ranganathan, and former King County Executive and Deputy Secretary of HUD Ron Sims will co-chair the committee. Ranganathan will also become a deputy mayor in Durkan's administration, as will Mike Fong, the Seattle Times reports. Fong worked as former mayor Ed Murray's chief of staff before going to work for the county.
Like her campaign, the transition team includes representatives of business and labor. Amazon Senior Manager Eileen Sullivan, Vulcan Executive Vice President Dave Stewart, and Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce CEO Maud Daudon will be on the team. So will several labor representatives, including Teamsters 117 Organizing Director Leonard Smith and SEIU 775 President David Rolf. (Sims, Daudon, and Rolf also served on Murray's transition team in 2013.)
A few other notable members of Durkan's transition team: Lieutenant Seattle Police Department Lieutenant Adrian Diaz, Public Defender Association Director Lisa Daugaard, ACLU of Washington Executive Director Kathleen Taylor, NW Immigrant Rights Project Executive Director Jorge Barón, and University of Washington researcher Caleb Banta-Green.
Daugaard has advocated for police reform and diversion programs for low-level drug offenders. The ACLU of Washington is currently suing the city over its sweeps of homeless encampments, which Durkan has said she would continue. Banta-Green sat on the regional heroin task force that last year recommended a long list of actions to address the opiate crisis, including opening safe consumption sites.
The list is majority people of color and women, according to Durkan. (See the full list below.)
The group will meet twice before Durkan becomes mayor on November 28 and once in December. Members will "further develop short-term policy solutions focused on housing, homelessness, affordability, and many others," according to the announcement from Durkan.
Here's the full list:
Adrian Z. Diaz
Lieutenant, Seattle Police Department
Angela Stowell
United Way, Campaign Co-Chair and Co-Founder of Stowell Restaurants
Anne Lee
TeamChild, Executive Director
Asha Mohamed
Women’s Advocacy Center, Co-Founder
Behnaz Nelson
PTE Local 17, Executive Director
Bill Hallerman
Catholic Community Services of King County, Agency Director
Brianna Ishihara
Community Member
Caleb Banta-Green
University of Washington, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, Principal Research Scientist
Charlene Strong
Washington State Human Rights Commission, Chair
Charles Royer
Former Mayor of Seattle
Cherry Cayabyab
Community Activist
Colleen Echohawk
Chief Seattle Club, Executive Director
Dave Gering
Manufacturing Industrial Council, Executive Director
Dave Stewart
Vulcan, Executive Vice President and General Counsel
David Della
Former Seattle City Councilmember
David Rolf
SEIU 775, President
Diane Sosne
SEIU Healthcare 1199NW, President
Eileen Sullivan
Amazon, Senior Manager, U.S. State Public Policy
Eileen V. Quigley
Clean Energy Transition, Director
Emilio Garza
The Washington Bus, Executive Director
Ezra Teshome
Community Leader
Gordon McHenry, Jr.
Solid Ground, President & CEO
Helen Howell
Building Changes, Executive Director
Jan Drago
Former Seattle City Councilmember
Jerry Everard
Capitol Hill and Belltown Business Owner
Jordan Royer
Pacific Merchant Shipping Association, VP for External Affairs, Manufacturing Industrial Council Board Member, and Washington CeaseFire Board Member
Jorge L. Barón
NW Immigrant Rights Project, Executive Director
Juan Cotto
El Centro de la Raza, President of the Board, and Board Member of Sound Mental Health
Kathleen Taylor
ACLU - Washington, Executive Director
Lauren McGowan
United Way, Sr. Director, Ending Homelessness & Poverty
The Honorable Leonard Forsman
The Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians, President and Suquamish Tribe, Chair
Leonard Smith
Teamsters 117, Director of Organizing & Strategic Campaigns
Linda Di Lello Morton
Greater Seattle Business Association, Board Member, and Terra Plata, Owner
Lisa Daugaard
Public Defender Association, Director
Louise Chernin
Greater Seattle Business Association, President & CEO
Lt. Kenny Stuart
Seattle Fire Fighters Union, IAFF Local 27, President
Marcos Martinez
Casa Latina, Executive Director
Mariko Lockhart
National Coordinator, 100,000 Opportunities Initiative - Demonstration Cities, The Aspen Institute's Forum for Community SolutionsMartha Kongsgaard
Kongsgaard-Goldman Foundation, President
Marty Hartman
Mary’s Place, Executive Director
Mary Jean Ryan
Community Center for Education Results, Executive Director
Maud Daudon
Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, President & CEO
Mohamed Sheikh Hassan
East African Community Leader
Monisha Harrell
Equal Rights Washington, Chair
Monty Anderson
Seattle Building and Construction Trades Council, Executive Secretary
Nicole Grant
M. L. King County Labor Council, Executive Secretary Treasurer
Norm Rice
Former Mayor of Seattle
Ollie Garrett
Tabor 100, President
Patrice Thomas
Rainier Beach Action Coalition, Strategist
Paul Lambros
Plymouth Housing, Executive Director
Riall Johnson
De-Escalate Washington, Campaign Manager
Ron Sims
Former King County Executive and Former Deputy Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
Roxana Norouzi
OneAmerica, Deputy Director
Ruthann Kurose
Community Leader
Ryan Calo
University of Washington School of Law, Lane Powell and D. Wayne Gittinger Associate Professor
Shefali Ranganathan
Transportation Choices Coalition, Executive Director
Sheila Edwards Lange, Ph.D
Seattle Central College, President
Stephan Blanford
Education Researcher
Taylor Hoang
Ethnic Business Coalition, Executive Director
Thatcher Bailey
Seattle Parks Foundation, President and CEO
Trish Millines Dziko
TAF, Executive Director
