Brandon has a fantastic story. He is formerly a homeless person with substance abuse issues that now runs an apartment building that provides permanent supportive housing for others that have suffered from homelessness.
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Connor Alexander is a game designer and the creator of a new game called Coyote & Crow that is currently killing it on Kickstarter with over $500,000 raised. Since his original goal was $18,000, he is at 25 times his initial goal. The game obviously speaks to some people out there!
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Josh Binda is an amazing young man and I find him inspiring. It is easy to go to protests, but it is hard to organize and lead them. It is easy to say you want to change things, but it is hard to come up with a plan to make change and to do the work to make it happen. When the opportunity presented itself with the Black Lives Matter movement, instead of shrinking to the back, Josh stepped forward and led marches all over Snohomish and parts of King Counties.
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Jean Wu of The Bread Booth. Jean has a system where she, her partners, and her volunteers “connect people with food and love others well.” They do that by gleaning food and giving it out in the community every Monday evening at 6:00 as well as building their community with a Facebook Group.
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My most recent shoot for the Spotlight Series is Frank and Jason of Shower to the People. They provide facilities for homeless people in Everett to shower as well as a few other services that help them feel valued and cared about as well as clean.
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As a personal project, I have started what I am calling my Spotlight Series. There are so many people in our community that are working to make things better in some way. My vision is that I want to find them, meet them, photograph them, and tell their stories.
The first person that I get to tell you about is Ian Bauer. He is a lawyer in Seattle that fights for abused kids and elderly people. He is also a dad, a music lover, and a former soccer goalkeeper.
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