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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