Katie Wilson – Transit Riders Union

2025 General Election Endorsements

October 21, 2025

Katie Wilson for Seattle Mayor

Alexis Mercedes Rinck for Seattle City Council Position 8

Dionne Foster for Seattle City Council Position 9

Erika Evans for Seattle City Attorney

Claudia Balducci and Girmay Zahilay for King County Executive

Maya Vengadasalam for King County District 7

Jude Anthony King County Council District 9

Andrew Reding for Bellingham City Council Ward 6

Brittany Miles for Bothell City Council Position 5

Hugo Garcia for Burien City Council Position 1

Sam Mendez for Burien City Council Position 3

Sarah Moore for Burien City Council Position 5

Rocco DeVito for Burien City Council Position 7

Nigel Herbig for Kenmore City Council Position 4

Kurt Dresner for Kirkland City Council Position 7

Josh Rosenau for Lake Forest Park City Council Position 3

Josh Binda for Lynnwood City Council Position 3

Paul Charbonneau for Newcastle City Council Position 6

Michael Westgaard for Renton City Council Position 1

Carmen Rivera for Renton City Council Position 2

Paul Dutton for Renton City Council Position 6

Ling Yang for Sammamnish City Council Position 5

Caitlin Konya for SeaTac City Council Position 2

Mohamed Egal for SeaTac City Council Position 4

Hannah Hedrick for Tukwila City Council Position 3

Devin Rydel Kelly for Pierce County Charter Review Commission

We’re Hiring!

September 5, 2025

TRU’s long-time leader, Katie Wilson, will be leaving her role by the end of this year. We are excited to begin the process of hiring for a new full-time staff position!* You can find all the details here. Please apply if you are interested, and share widely.

* A little more context: Katie has long held two official positions in TRU. She’s been our General Secretary, serving as an elected officer (and board member), a position similar to president. And she’s been our Campaign Coordinator, a paid staff role responsible for working with the membership and with allies to carry out TRU’s campaigns and projects. Together these roles have been much like an executive director position at a more traditional nonprofit. Moving forward, we are separating the (volunteer) elected role from the paid staff role, but also want to recognize that the paid staff role includes many responsibilities beyond coordinating campaigns. For that reason, we are calling the new role General Manager (if Metro has one, why can’t we?).

Take our Transit Benefits Survey

May 27, 2025

Transit Riders Union is conducting two surveys about transit benefits. We’ve got one survey focused on commuters (people who work in Seattle) and another for people living in affordable or subsidized housing in Seattle.

Our results will inform our advocacy to make public transit more affordable and accessible to workers, lower-income riders, and residents of subsidized housing. Participants will be entered in a drawing for a $100 ORCA card.

2025 Primary Election Endorsements

July 18, 2025May 27, 2025

TRU’s membership has made the following endorsements for the August 5, 2025 primary election. If we make further endorsements we will add them to this page.