Who we are
350 WA Council Representatives
Jill MacIntyre Witt, she/her
350 Bellingham
My Role: I’ve been organizing with 350 Bellingham since 2010, and I serve as lead organizer.
My climate organizing passion and experience: I’ve been doing climate change and climate justice education, advocacy and activism since 2006. I don't want my 2 daughters to ask me why I didn't do anything when I had the chance, so I'm doing all I can in a variety of ways and means... mainly working to empower others to take action.
My hopes for the 350 WA Network: With our collective action, hopefully we can help build the climate justice movement with more people taking action all over the state, as well as support each other when we have targeted challenges.
Mary Rollins, she/her
350 Everett
My Role: I am on the leadership team and serving in my 2nd term. I have been with 350 Everett for about six years. 350 Everett was born out of work we were doing to stop the coal trains.
My climate organizing passion and experience: My climate organizing passion and experience began when I was very young. In my hometown I watched the destruction of orange groves to make way for buildings and worked to stop the destruction. I was only a small child so I had very little impact. That feeling I had though to protect the environment has never wavered. I have spent many years organizing around water rights and trying to change the culture of using plastic bottles. I have advocated for preserving the forest and for community gardens. I work with organizations to get rid of toxic pollution and was inspired by Pete Seeger and his work to save the Hudson River. Our voices matter.
My hopes for the 350 WA Network: My hope is that 350 WA Network will cause a psychic shift in how Washingtonians will view their role in combating climate change. Our voices are stronger together!
Bill Sheets, he/him
350 Everett
My Role: I have been a member of the Leadership Team for 350 Everett since 2020.
My climate organizing passion and experience: I feel a deep, abiding love for the natural world and all the creatures in it. I also have a strong sense of justice and believe the concept should apply to all living things as well as to humankind. In my 30-plus year career as a newspaper reporter and editor, I could not participate in causes because of the need to avoid any appearance of conflict, so I am relatively new to activism. Having now retired, I look forward to doing more as time goes on. I have been a member of the Leadership Team for 350 Everett since 2020.
My hopes for the 350 WA Network: My hope and dream is that we can convince people, both those in power and not, of the urgency of the climate crisis and influence them to take action to restore balance to our natural world.
Shemona Moreno, she/her
350 Seattle
Shemona is an activist, leader, changemaker, and the Executive Director of 350 Seattle. A proud Black & Latina woman, her mother is an immigrant from Mexico and her father a descendant of enslaved African people. These origins ground Shemona’s work in the fierce commitment to amplifying the demands of frontline communities hurt first and worst by climate catastrophe. She trusts that cultivating deep relationships among organizations fighting for racial, economic, gender, disability, and climate justices is how we build collective power to interrupt systems of oppression.
David Perk, he/him
350 Seattle
My Role: Member of Leadership Team, Communications team, Policy and Endorsements Committee. Volunteer since 2015, newsletter editor since 2016. Helped launch the Civic Action Team in 2017 and turn it into a legislative alerts campaign in 2019. Also engage on King County policy.
My climate organizing passion and experience: Focused on institutional solutions to the climate crisis. Let's change the foundational rules to make progress and transform all of our systems!
My hopes for the 350 WA Network: That we are able to lift up voices across the state to make dramatic progress on addressing climate change at the state and regional level.
Larry Luton, he/him
350 Spokane
My Role: I have been working with 350 Spokane since 2017 and am now on the 350 Spokane Steering Committee. I am the point person for transportation policy issues and issues relating to the City of Spokane's Sustainability Action Plan.
My climate organizing passion and experience: I have been an environmentalist since the 1960s and began focusing on the climate crisis in the late 1990s. I was a member of the Mayor of Spokane's Task Force on Sustainability 2008-11 and am currently the Chair of the Steering Committee of the Sustainability Advisory Subcommittee (SAS) for the City of Spokane's City Council. SAS is assisting with and monitoring implementation of the 2021 Sustainability Action Plan. When 350 Spokane held its first meeting in 2017, I attended and quickly became actively involved.
My hopes for the 350 WA Network: I would like to help make the State of Washington net neutral (ghg) by 2035. I also want to help create a transition to a post-carbon world that is fundamentally equitable for all humans on the planet and treats non-human animals and plants as part of our community (i.e., caring for their well-being, treating them respectfully, and recognizing their right to life).
Emily Grant, she/her
350 Spokane
My Role: I am on the board at 350 Spokane. I attended my first meeting just before COVID-19 came to the US.. it's already been 2 years!?
My climate organizing passion and experience: My passion is to create a more just, equitable, and sustainable world. My experience is only with 350 Spokane! I have helped with some other projects since joining, but this has been my major commitment.
My hopes for the 350 WA Network: My biggest hopes and dreams are that we can stop the worst effects of climate change by forcing governments to act now. I want to be part of the system responsible for creating a livable future for the next generations!
Janeen Provazek, she/her
350 Tacoma
My Role: I volunteer in 350’s Leadership Circle, which is small but very committed and proactive.
My climate organizing passion and experience: I feel strongly about climate concerns and climate justice. I first began organizing and advocating approximately 3 years ago when I joined 350 Tacoma as a volunteer. Shortly thereafter I also joined several social justice groups.
My hopes for the 350 WA Network: My biggest hope is that all of the climate organizations work together as much as possible to realize the goals set by the IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change). That is, keeping temperatures below the 1.5-degree threshold, which is our best chance of avoiding a truly catastrophic nightmare for life on our planet. This, of course. Involves a whole new world view where our highest value is taking care of the Earth, and being taken care of by it.
Sue Kane, she/her
350 Wenatchee
My Role: I am the newsletter editor and try to put out a weekly update. I am a meeting attender and usually the scribe for our Climate Conversations NCW meetings. I have been involved since I retired. I am also a "regular" at our protests and Farmer's Market Booth and an encourager to Jeannie. Sometimes I come up with crazy ideas and have fun putting them together.
My climate organizing passion and experience: My passion came from my husband, Kevin's, life-long passion, frustration and work for the environment. When I retired, 4 years ago; I joined him as I saw what was happening to the lands and planet we will be giving to our children and grandchildren.
My hopes for the 350 WA Network: a) Educate our community about the Climate Crisis (feeling pretty good about this one) b) Lobby for State changes actions to curb our Carbon Footprint c) Be a leader in the region, nation and world in saving this amazing creation that we call home.
Jeanne Poirier, they/them
350 Wenatchee
My Role: Currently I hold the title of “Leader” for 350Wenatchee and could not do this without the support/help of Sue Kane! I have never been comfortable with being a leader. I love being a supporter and organizer, but have not had any luck passing this baton so far. I’m working on this because I believe 350Wenatchee could have a much bigger impact with someone at the helm who is savvy with social media, lives closer to town and has more energy for it!
My climate organizing passion and experience: While I marched down 82nd Ave., in Portland OR on the very first Earth Day (1970), it wasn’t until after I read “The Weather Makers” by Tim Flannery (2005) I went nuts. Actually carried my original earth day poster with an earth flag in downtown Wenatchee a few times - alone! Living a good hour from town precludes as much engagement as I would like. For a few years a good friend & I stood in front of Cashmere Valley Bank with signs every Wednesday. She was anti-war and mine were always about climate - including making a big frog costume! Then she moved to Texas and I could not do this by myself and did not feel good driving in evenings to join anti-war folks in Wenatchee vigils. It was a relief when I was invited to a meeting at Wenatchee Valley Museum by Carolyn & Bob Bugert (Sept. 2014) to anyone in the community concerned about climate change. There were about 100 of us and Climate Conversations NCW was born. I actually missed out on the initial organizing of this as my parents were failing and some serious intervention and time was required. Upon return committees were formed and work/education was happening. CCNCW focussed mostly on education and many key members were reluctant to participate in events or any kind of protests. We did organize and had about 100 folks at the first Global Climate March (Nov. 2015). 350Wenatchee was formed out of CCNCW by those interested in being activists. I was part of the “onboarding call” with Michelle Fournier in Sept. 2017 when we became an official 350 group. Again, I was a supporter and became leader only after the initial leader fell ill and no longer felt the strength to do this work. I’ve been in 350 trainings since May of 2018 when 350 groups in PNW gathered outside of Portland, OR at Camp Menucha for “Train the Trainers” - it was great! I found it very hard to translate all the great training work to our Wenatchee group and laugh to see the 350. Org next big training in January is “Train the Trainers”. :). I did not ever want to participate in the cyber world - it is such a “down the rabbit hole” for time - but try to realize it is a tool. It took me until Nov. 2017 to get my computer!
My hopes for the 350 WA Network: It has been delightful to reconnect with folks I met at Camp Menucha from time to time through the network. It feels exponential in power to be part of this group. The support from the Monday PNW calls and our CAT team is bigger than I realize! I learn from other groups newsletters and activities. It is exciting to see this grow and honestly, how quickly. We are making a big difference already.
Kitsap Environmental Coalition
Beverley Parsons, she/her
My Role: I’m currently co-president of the Kitsap Environmental Coalition and have been involved with KEC since 2018.
My climate organizing passion and experience: My passion is systemically attending to the forests of the Pacific NW and their capacity to respond to our climate crisis. From a systemic orientation, we can enter the situation from our own passion and connect to everything else to create a self-organizing web of living regeneration of people and planet.
My hopes for the 350 WA Network: To bring about a change in public consciousness and world view about the need to focus on regeneration of all of life— the whole living system of the planet—and build powerful restraints on the extraction and exploitation that is dominating people and planet today.
Kitsap Environmental Coalition
Pedro Valverde, he/him
My Role: In the Kitsap Environmental Coalition, I am a member of KEC’s Steering Committee, and a member of the Forest Practices Group. I have been two years in KEC, first year as an observant, second year as a volunteer organizer presently working in the 10 year moratorium petition project.
My climate organizing passion and experience: I am a Native South American Indian born in Peru, Latin America. I am also an immigrant, a US naturalized citizen, and an electrical power and renewable energy engineer who graduated from the University of Seattle in Washington State. I have 20 years of experience working in both countries, the USA and in Peru in decarbonization projects related to: Generation, Transmission, Distribution of clean, electrical energy. Reduction of the emission of greenhouse gases in commercial, hospital, and community housing buildings. Promotion of economic efficiency in the use of renewable electrical power and energy for the aforementioned buildings. Presently I am retired and live in Poulsbo. I believe that decarbonizing the world to decrease or maintain Mother Earth’s present temperature below or at 1.5 degrees C by 2030 is our worldwide urgent main generational challenge. After retirement I was inspired by the activism of Greta Thunberg and Bill McKibben to continue to work combatting climate change. Therefore, I joined the Kitsap Environmental Coalition in Poulsbo as a volunteer.
My hopes for the 350 WA Network: Presently, all nations involved in fighting climate change are part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC, and their climate change scientists are members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It is this panel of scientists who in the Paris Agreement celebrated by 195 2 countries during the UNCOP 2016 in Lima, Peru, established a worldwide roadmap for combatting climate change by declaring the need for an international effort to reach zero greenhouse emissions by the year 2050. According to the aforementioned worldwide roadmap, the first worldwide milestone in the effort for decarbonizing the world to decrease or maintain Mother Earth’s temperature below or at 1.5 degrees C by 2030 is now our urgent main generational challenge. The reason is that if the level of the Earth’s temperature keeps rising due to the increase of CO2 gas emissions then the uncontrollable climate change events that will happen will drastically affect life on Earth for future generations. If nothing is done to stop this threat and we continue living in a business as usual mode, then life on Earth will be extinguished. Most of the world’s greenhouse annual gas emissions measured in Million Metric Tons (MMT) of gas CO2 come from the USA, China, Russia, India, Indonesia, and the European Union. Per capita greenhouse emissions are highest in the United States and Russia. A current estimate of the global carbon emissions for the year 2021 is 36,000 MMT of CO2. See: https://www.c2es.org/content/international- emissions/ It seems to me that flattening this global exponential CO2 gas warming curve in the next ten years is as important as flattening the current pandemic curve; and in the USA, it is also as important as flattening the present racial justice curve. Therefore, all countries signatories of the Paris Agreement will make independent plans to implement their respective national decarbonization efforts. However, at the community level of each country, those of us in the 350 Washington Network who feel responsible for insuring a better physical and racially justice environment, and a safe and healthy future for the life of our descendants, will have to commit to work very hard combatting climate change to make sure that the flattening of the three aforementioned curves happen simultaneously in each of the communities where we presently live. Fortunately, the political environment in the USA has changed, a new Federal Government has been elected, and the 350 Washington Network will be able to operate in a New Green Deal environment conducive to achieving the milestones established by the Paris Agreement.
Olympic Climate Action
Ed Chadd, he/him
My Role: I’ve been the chair since OCA was founded, mostly because no one else has been willing to fill that role. I try to facilitate and serve as a backstop 😊.
My climate organizing passion and experience: I started Olympic Climate Action in my living room in 2012, realizing that re-electing Barack Obama would be nowhere near enough to avert climate catastrophe and believing that groups needed to gather around the globe, including on the Olympic Peninsula. I try to create the space for others to exercise their passions for climate action, to help provide a bigger picture for the work we do, and to backstop projects that need some help getting over the finish line. I’m more of a facilitator than a person out in front.
My hopes for the 350 WA Network: Together, we can speak truth to power and keep up on what’s going on at the state and federal levels. Through the Network, OCA has been able to gather a group of statewide forest activists to counter the timber industry’s false claim that cutting trees is good for the climate…it sounds absurd on its face, but unfortunately, every politician at every level in this state believes that canard!
Vashon Climate Action
Suzanne Greenberg, she/her
My Role: I am on the leadership team and my role is communications person and leadership meeting facilitator. Also I head up the Vashon NO LNG team, but have been very derelict in that duty since the Pandemic struck.
My climate organizing passion and experience: My passion is connecting with people, newsletters, meeting, getting folks involved. I've been organizing with the Vashon Climate Action Group for about 4 years. Still lots to learn!
My hopes for the 350 WA Network: My biggest hopes and dreams is to work together so that our little group can join bigger efforts and we can accomplish more than if we tried to bite something off.
Vashon Climate Action
Kevin Jones, he/him
My Role: Vashon Climate Action Group board member; Started organizing as an individual about the time VCAG started and soon joined them to bring the Carbon Free PSE campaign into their portfolio.
My climate organizing passion and experience: Creating durable legislative and regulatory change that leads to a healthy climate and a livable planet. Experience: Puget Sound Energy Technical Advisory Group member; Clean Energy Transformation Act rulemaking coordination and input development; Working with the WA State Attorney General office, their Public Council Unit and the Utilities and Transportation Commission staff regarding WA State climate policy objectives.
My hopes for the 350 WA Network: Creating cross-state legislative influence to achieve meaningful legislative and regulatory climate policy.
Lin Hagedorn, she/her
350 Eastside
My Role: After a 10-month internship with 350 Seattle, I was invited by Alec Connon, along with five other Eastside (of Lake Washington) folks to come together and co-create, co-found 350 Eastside in 2017. Alec supported our evolution through to the launch of 350 Eastside in Sept 2018, we have been active on the Eastside ever since. I continue to support the work of 350 Eastside as a Steering Committee member.
My climate organizing passion and experience: Systems of oppression were intentionally created and intentionally interwoven. I know that working together, across all areas of justice, WE will dismantle oppressive systems and welcome in something better. My cup is filled as we bring people together to put our shared visions for justice and liberation into action. May we be courageous and bold enough to carry this work forward, speaking truth to ourselves and truth to power.
My hopes for the 350 WA Network: As a strong network committed to the principles of centering justice and equity, I truly believe we can create a shared vision that brings into being a world where everyone is valued and has the opportunity to thrive.
Coleen Anderson, she/her
350 Yakima
My Role: After organizing the youth-inspired global climate strike here in Yakima with over 100 participants, I and three others co-founded 350 Yakima Climate Action. I have since stepped down from leadership, so I don’t have a specific role. I essentially do everything and anything that needs being done. I am active in various local and state campaigns to increase awareness and offer solutions towards solving the climate crisis, often giving public comment. Outreach Coordinator might be a good description of what I do.
My climate organizing passion and experience: Bill McKibben has inspired me for many years, but it was Reading The End of Ice by Dahr Jamail and hearing the inspiring words of Greta Thunberg that moved me to become active in climate advocacy. Retired, with plenty of time on my hands, I couldn’t think of a better way to spend it. In 2019, I gathered over 100 signatures on a Petition to Declare a Climate Emergency. The resulting Proclamation was signed by the Mayor on December 10, 2019. Following the example of Greta, we began demonstrating every Friday in downtown Yakima. Now, after Covid, we started up again but this time it’s in front of Chase Bank to bring awareness to “StopTheMoneyPipeline.” I love the opportunities 350WA has given me and other volunteers to influence climate legislation. I now feel comfortable giving public comment at the state as well as the local level. I am passionate about preserving our mother Earth equitably so that future generations will have a livable planet to thrive on. When I think of my children, my grandchildren and future generations, it keeps me going.
My hopes for the 350 WA Network: At first, I was concerned that a statewide network would require time away from our local work, but I have found it has enhanced it. The City of Yakima is better because of the 350 WA Network. It has afforded me an opportunity to grow as an advocate. Offering experiences I would never have had. Getting to know the other state leaders, all working toward the same hopes and dreams, has been such a blessing to me and my advocacy. Sharing in the victories is so uplifting. My hopes for the network is that it will continue to be that same open, friendly and impactful experience.
Emily Powell
350 Eastside
Bio coming soon
Olympic Climate Action
Ed Bowlby
Bio coming soon