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| Name | Katie Wilson |
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| Info | Katie Wilson is the co-founder and executive director of the Transit Riders Union (TRU), a democratic membership organization that has become a powerful voice for working people across Seattle and King County. Since founding TRU in 2011, Katie has led the organization for well over a decade, directing hundreds of thousands of volunteer and staff hours toward winning successful campaigns for better transit, higher wages, stronger renter protections, and more affordable housing.
Through her leadership of TRU, Katie has built and managed large, multi-partner coalitions to secure the transformative victories described on this page. These wins were made possible by Katie’s deep commitment to community organizing, coalition-building, and strategic advocacy.
Katie brings the experience Seattle needs in its next mayor. She has spent years listening to ordinary people’s experiences in communities throughout the city, leading research teams and surveys to understand real needs around transit, housing, and work, and collaborating with diverse stakeholders to write, pass, and implement legislation. She’s led public outreach campaigns, authored articles and reports, hired talented staff, trained and coordinated hundreds of volunteers, and worked side-by-side with local nonprofits, labor unions, elected officials, and staff across City and County departments to make change happen.
Before founding TRU, Katie graduated salutatorian of her high school class in Binghamton, New York and studied physics and philosophy at Oxford University. She arrived in Seattle in 2004 and worked a wide range of jobs to make ends meet: barista, lab tech, laborer, boatyard worker, apartment manager, legal assistant, and more. These early experiences grounded her in the everyday realities of working people and shaped her lifelong commitment to improving people’s lives.
Katie has also written extensively on local policy and politics as a columnist for publications including Crosscut (now Cascade PBS), PubliCola, The Urbanist, and The Stranger.
When she's not organizing or writing, Katie enjoys exploring Seattle’s great parks and playgrounds with her daughter, riding our public transit system, losing herself in a book (or, more realistically these days, an audiobook), and being a superfan of her husband’s homemade pizza.
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