Whether it’s interviewing a sitting president, co-hosting a daily television talk show, or developing innovative content, Angela has a remarkable ability to connect with people through the screen, face-to-face, on stage, or via the written word. She’s proven that ability through her twenty years as a television journalist, earning a prestigious Emmy Award for her work as a news anchor and reporter. Angela most recently co-hosted the iconic primetime television show Evening on KING-TV (NBC) and prior to that, Take 5, also on KING. She is currently a contributor on KIRO News Radio 97.3, a freelance content creator and a public speaker who believes strongly in the power of storytelling to educate and inspire.  

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal represents Washington’s 7th Congressional District, which encompasses most of Seattle and its surrounding areas. She is the first South Asian American woman ever elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. She serves on key committees, including the Steering and Policy Committee, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the House Judiciary Committee, where she is the first immigrant to ever serve as Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Immigration. She has spent over 20 years leading organizing and advocacy efforts for women’s and immigrant rights and racial and economic justice. 

Claire Dederer is an essayist, memoirist, and critic. She’s the author of the national bestseller Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma, which was a New York Times Notable Book and was named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Fresh Air, Esquire, The Sunday Times, and many others. A hybrid of essay, criticism, and memoir, Monsters is based on Dederer’s globally viral Paris Review essay, “What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?” Monsters has been translated into eleven languages. 

Her other books include the critically acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble as well as Poser, which was a New York Times bestseller. Dederer has taught at universities and MFA programs all over the country. She’s a dedicated supporter of Seattle’s Books to Prisoners.

Colleen Echohawk is a born organizer, change-maker, and leader with over twenty years’ experience championing both Seattle’s marginalized populations and Native prosperity nationwide. Her experiences as an Indigenous woman, small business owner, community organizer, and executive leader inform her efforts in building a community of justice and reconciliation. 

She is the former CEO of Eighth Generation, an art and lifestyle brand that promotes Native designed products. She previously served as Executive Director of Chief Seattle Club for seven years.

Sally Jewell served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 2013-17 following over 40 years in business, including eight years as CEO of outdoor retail co-op REI.  In government, she advocated for balanced protection of public lands and waters, including working closely with President Obama and his team on long-term conservation of our nation’s most vulnerable and irreplaceable natural, cultural, and historical treasures, protecting more lands and waters than any other U.S. president in history. She leveraged science to shape a landscape-level understanding of our resources, nurtured a respectful government to government relationship with our nation’s Indigenous leaders, facilitated development of renewable energy on public lands and waters, and engaged youth in opportunities to experience and care for the natural world from our nation’s vast national public lands to local community parks.  

 Michele E. Storms is the Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington (ACLU of Washington), former Deputy Director of the ACLU of Washington, and previous Assistant Dean for Public Service and executive director of the William H. Gates Public Service Law program at the University of Washington School of Law. Preceding those roles she served as a statewide advocacy coordinator first at Columbia Legal Services and later at the Northwest Justice Project where over a combined five-year period she coordinated civil legal aid advocacy in the areas of family law, youth and education, housing, elder law, Native American and right to counsel issues. She was also previously on faculty at the University of Washington School of Law where she founded what is now the Child and Youth Advocacy Clinic and taught several other courses.

Jahnvi Madan is an upcoming clarinetist/composer from Bellevue, recently named Earshot Jazz Festival’s Northwest Emerging Artist of the Year. A New England Conservatory graduate who grew up performing around Seattle’s Jazz scene, she has performed her music at prestigious festivals including the D.C. Women in Jazz Festival, Seattle’s Westerlies Fest, and the Earshot Jazz Festival – as the youngest composer they have commissioned. Madan is passionate about bringing more attention and love towards Seattle’s jazz scene, both in terms of uncovering its rich history as well as shining light on the current artistry around town. She is interested in using her art to navigate themes of identity through a lens of resilience, thus paving new pathways while paying homage to the spirit of Jazz.