Meet Colleen Echohawk
“I’m running for Mayor of Seattle because I love this city, and we have a once-in-a-generation chance to rethink how it works, and who it works for. If we take a people-first approach to renewal then we can become as transformative as our communities demand us to be.”
Colleen Echohawk for Seattle Mayor
My name is Colleen Echohawk and I am running for Mayor of Seattle because I love this city, and I know a better future is possible.
I’ve lived here for over two decades, and my family and I call North Seattle home.
We’re a city brimming with innovation, and a people that prides ourselves on our progressive values. Yet we’ve failed to address the ever growing racial and economic inequalities that are turning us into a city of haves and have-nots, with little in between.
In these difficult days for our city and the world, it has never been clearer that the way we do things has to change. This is our opportunity––our once-in-a-generation chance to rethink how our city works, and who it works for.
I am an enrolled member of the Kithehaki Band of the Pawnee Nation and a member of the Upper Athabascan people of Mentasta Lake. As an Indigenous person, the spirit of service has deep roots in my family. Growing up as the oldest girl of eight siblings, there was rarely a quiet moment in our house. And even though it was already a full house, it constantly got fuller as my parents opened our home to people who found themselves on hard times.
I bring that same spirit to my work.
Over the past two decades I’ve worked closely with everyone from community leaders and organizers, to businesses and political leadership on the state and local level to fight against the root causes of homelessness and address the systemic racism in our criminal justice system.
I’m the former executive director of Chief Seattle Club, a nonprofit building $100 million dollars of new affordable housing in the city for Urban Indians. On the Seattle Community Police Commission, I’ve worked hand in hand with neighbors to address the systemic racism in our criminal justice system, and to create progress where complacency has been the rule.
Our city is facing unprecedented challenges, and we can’t accept more of the same from City Hall. These are historic times, and they require historic solutions.
My name is Colleen Echohawk, and I would be honored to have your support for Mayor of Seattle.
Meet Colleen Echohawk
