Friends,

Thousands of people have now taken our survey requesting input on the topics we should prioritize in forming our future candidate questionnaires! Thank you for participating and helping to shape our upcoming work. We are so appreciative of the time and effort you dedicated to providing us with your insights.

We look forward to sharing the survey results with you when we return from our break after the 4th of July. In the meantime, we wanted to direct you to a timely – and very important – interview we shared on our website earlier this week.

A special edition Newsmaker Interview featured Susanna Keilman, who recently played a pivotal role in organizing a vigil and march to honor the memory of Eina Kwon and her unborn child. Eina and her baby were murdered in a senseless – and apparently random – attack on Tuesday, June 13, in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood.

With little notice, hundreds of people gathered at the location where the tragic murder took place. From there, they marched in unity to Aburiya Bento House, the beloved Western Avenue restaurant owned by Eina and her husband Sung, who was injured during the attack.

During the interview, Keilman explained how the rally was the result of much anger and frustration – both within the Asian and Pacific Islander community and throughout the region – over liberal policies (crime, drug, homelessness and mental health) which have caused Seattle to be an unsafe place to live, work, and visit.

Take a moment to read the interview here.

Thank you for your ongoing readership,

The Shift WA team