Marcella (Marcee) Stone,
President, Board of Directors
Marcee' s community activism began in 2002 with ReACTION (Residents
Against Cell Towers In Our Neighborhoods). She is a PCO and
King County Committeewoman from the 34th District Democrats,
and an Obama delegate to the State Convention. She has participated
in candidate trainings with the White House Project and Camp
Wellstone. Former Chair of the Parent Education Program for
Seattle Academy Parent Association, she organized parent educational
forums. Marcee has worked in legal administration for many years
and is currently with a downtown Seattle law firm. A graduate
of the University of Washington with a B.F.A. in Drama and the
proud parent of a junior at The Evergreen State College.
Annie
Phillips,
Vice-President
Ms. Phillips is an environmentalist and small business owner.
She has a B.A. in Mass Communications and worked for several years
for the Washington State Department of Ecology designing and implementing
environmental communications and education programs. She now owns
a bed and breakfast inn and participates in local Puget Sound
election reform and peace groups.
Terry
Sullivan,
Secretary, Board of Directors
Mr. Sullivan has a B.A. in Urban Planning, a professional background
in homedesign and carpentry, and now owns a fine woodworking business.
A local community activist and Peace Corps veteran, he has helped
found four organizations: Washington Public Campaigns; Vashon
Household, a low income housing advocacy and development organization;
a Vashon Island teen center; and an alternative school program.
John
F. Howes,
CPA,Treasurer
Mr. Howes is a Certified Public Accountant who manages a tax and
business consulting practice in Vancouver, Washington. He also
serves as treasurer for both a nonprofit and a political action
group in Vancouver. He holds a B.A. degree from New York University.
He is a former Chair of the 17th Legislative District Democrats
and has been involved in
various
capacities with political campaigns at the local, state and federal
levels.
Jean
Carlson
Jean Carlson has been a civic activist since the early '70's,
for Seattle Public Schools and state funding of education, with
the League of Women Voters on statewide issues, and locally on
the Madison Park Community Council. Currently she is Publicist
for WPC.
Ken
Dammand
Ken
has served the citizens of his home town, Everett, as a firefighter,
paramedic and fire captain for the past
26 years. He’s been active in Firefighter’s Local 46 and various
neighborhood community groups. In his previous lives he
was the drummer in the 60’s era rock band Fragile Lime, a reluctant
soldier, a scholar (Ph.D. in developmental psychology from SUNY
Stony Brook in 1979), an adjunct professor, dish washer, and just
about everything in between. Ken posts his political commentary
and poetry at kendammand.com and hopes to write more after retirement.
He comes to the Board of WPC out of concern about a government,
at both the State and Federal level, in which elected officials
must consider past and future political campaign contributions
more heavily than the overriding mandate to do the greatest good
for the greatest number of citizens.
John
King, Chairman,
Policy Committee
A Washington native and a lawyer in private practice in Seattle,
Mr. King is chair of WPC's Policy Committee, which is primarily
responsible for the group's legislative affairs. He has been a
naval officer, counsel to U.S. Senate committee, and a law school
adjunct professor. Active on boards and committees of various
civic groups, he is a former president of the Arthritis Foundation's
Western Washington chapter and a recipient of the national Arthritis
Foundation's distinguished service award. Father of three grown
children, his current hobbies include playing
basketball
and composing aphorisms.
A.
M. Noel
A. M. Noel was born in K.L. Malaysia, and has worked in nine countries,
and is currently involved in business development and marketing.
Besides his involvement with WPC, he is active with many business
and civic organizations. He has lived in Seattle since 1989, where
he and his wife Linda have two children.
Alice Paine 
Alice Paine is recently retired from her position as Executive
Director of the King County Bar Association, where she served
for 20 years. She has broad experience with management of non-profit
organizations and is currently Vice-Chair of Pioneer Human Services.
She serves on a number of other boards of community organizations.
Ms. Paine was extensively involved in organizing the Judicial
Selection Coalition, a broad group of law-related and good government
organizations, and in the development of the nationally acclaimed
votingforjudges.org
website. Ms. Paine obtained her MBA from City University and her
BA from the University of Michigan.
Alice
Woldt
Alice Woldt is currently doing special projects work for several
non-profit organizations. She has served as the Public Policy
Director for the Washington Association of Churches (WAC); directed
the Seattle Alliance for Good jobs and housing for Everyone (SAGE);
and on the executive staff of the Church Council of Greater Seattle.
She lives in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. She is known
in the larger community for her activism on many peace and justice
issues.
WPC
Staff
Craig Salins,
Executive Director
A native of Seattle, WA, Mr. Salins has
an extensive background in program planning, grant writing, community
organizing and public policy work. A former
VISTA Volunteer and Head Start director, he has directed advocacy
organizations on consumer issues, economic cooperatives, and health
care reform.
He
has been a workshop presenter and occasional consultant on grant
funding and legislation at national and state conferences for
the Day Care & Child Development Council of America, the Consumer
Federation of America, and the Universal Health Care Action Network.
He has served on the boards of Seattle's Pike Place Market Preservation
and Development Authority, the Puget Consumers Co-op, the Central
Area Motivation Program, and for four years during the 1970's,
the New Jersey Governor's Advisory Committee on Social Services.
For
several terms, he chaired the Issues Committee for the Washington
36th District Democrats and led lobbying efforts in Olympia on
behalf of the King County Democrats Legislative Action Committee.
In 1993, he co-founded the Washington Single Payer Action Network
and led the organization as volunteer president/director for four
years, during which time a statewide conference was held (1996)
drawing national leaders and 350 participants.
He
is a proud member of Carpenters Local 816, and for many years
has worked part-time as a remodeling contractor and carpenter
- allowing time to organize for issues he cares about, including
Clean Elections!
In
his own words: "Until we achieve Clean Elections, we won't
see significant progress on the bread and butter issues that concern
most Americans, such as affordable health care for all, full funding
for education, living wages, safety on the job, sustainable energy
policies, respect for small business and family farms, and an
environment we can proudly leave to our children."
Dina
Lydia Johnson,
Graphic and Web Design
Dina designs websites, promotional materials, book layout, and
other graphics. She also does illustration, digital photography,
and photo retouching at Digital
Genie.com and is Director of the political art site
Citizen Artiste.org
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