BACKGROUND
Shaun Scott is an advocacy journalist and historian who has worked as the editor of Real Change News. While an undergraduate at the University of Washington, he was a member of UAW 4121 and worked with the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History project to delve into exclusionary practices in Seattle land use decisions. As a member of SEIU 775NW, he wrote about issues facing homecare aides for the union paper Insight Magazine.
EXPERIENCE
As a field staffer for Pramila Jayapal and organizer with Campaign Workers Guild in 2018, Shaun led the first ever unionization of a congressional incumbent’s campaign staff. From 2016-2017, Shaun spearheaded the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs’ $5.6 million renovation of King Street Station.
VISION
For over a decade, Shaun was a documentary filmmaker who received numerous city and county grants for his visionary documentaries about Seattle history and politics, including his 2009 documentary Seat of Empire: Seattle Since 1909. He is the author of the book Millennials and the Moments That Made Us: A Cultural History of the U.S. from 1982-Present. A 43rd LD Democrat and member of Seattle DSA, he lives in Roosevelt near the soon-to- be-built light rail station.
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