Highline Community College Building 8, Student Union Building 2400 S. 240th Street Des Moines, WA 98198

Schedule

2:15 pm Welcome and Introduction, SeaTac Municipal Court Judge Elizabeth Bejarano; 2:20 pm Mia Gregerson, House Representative and Mayor, City of SeaTac; Dave Kaplan, Mayor, City of Des Moines; Des Moines Municipal Court Judge Veronica Alicea- Galvan 2:45 pm John Keister 3:15 pm Judge James Docter, City of Bremerton 3:30 pm Recording Artist Wanz 3:40 pm Dan Satterberg, King County Prosecuting Attorney 4:00 pm Katie Whittier, King County Director for Senator Patty Murray, on behalf of Patty Murray 4:15 pm Comedian Ty Barnett 4:45 pm Norm Rice, President and CEO of the Foundation, and Former Seattle Mayor 5:00 pm Closing remarks (Schedule subject to change as entertainers are added)

Speaker and Entertainer Information Speakers Mia Gregerson

http://housedemocrats.wa.gov/roster/rep-mia-gregerson/

http://www.ci.seatac.wa.us/index.aspx?page=90

Before being appointed to the House of Representatives in 2013, and selected as Mayor of the City of SeaTac in 2014, Mia served as a council member and deputy mayor for the City of SeaTac. While on the council she served on the executive board of the Puget Sound Regional Council, on the board of directors for Sound Cities Association and on other regional committees. Mia has been a surgical assistant and business manager in the dental field for more than 16 years. She has degrees from Highline Community college and the University of .

Dan Satterberg

http://www.kingcounty.gov/Prosecutor.aspx

A Seattle area native, Dan is a graduate of Highline High school, the , and the University of Washington Law School. Joining the King County Prosecutor’s Office in 1985, he succeeded the late in 2007 to lead the office. Dan enjoys playing in his nine-piece classic rock dance-party band, The Approximations. Dave Kaplan

http://www.desmoineswa.gov/index.aspx?nid=115

Before being elected and appointed as Mayor of Des Moines, Dave Kaplan served as a pro tem mayor for the past two years, and served as a councilmember from 1998 through 2001, and again from 2006 to the present.

Judge Veronica Alicea-Galvan

http://www.desmoineswa.gov/index.aspx?nid=150

Judge Galvan graduated from the University of Washington School of Law and served as assistant city attorney for the city of Seattle. She took the bench in 2001 and was appointed to serve as the judge for the City of Des Moines in 2007. She currently serves as Vice President of the District and municipal Court Judges’ Association, and teaches Spanish for lawyers at School of Law. Judge James Docter

http://www.ci.bremerton.wa.us/display.php?id=53

Judge Docter has served for the City of Bremerton since 1997, when he was elected as their first municipal court judge in the city’s history. Prior to serving as judge, he worked as a public defender for nine years and also worked in the Peace Corps in Guatemala for two years. He currently serves as Dean and faculty member for the Washington State Judicial College.

Judge Elizabeth M. Cordi-Bejarano

www.ci.seatac.wa.us/court

Judge Bejarano graduated from University of Puget Sound School of Law in 1991. Concentrating her practice in misdemeanor criminal law, she served as both a prosecutor and defense attorney before serving as a judge pro tem for numerous jurisdictions in King and Pierce Counties beginning in 1998. She was appointed as Court Commissioner for the City of Auburn in 2007, and then as Municipal Court Judge for the City of SeaTac in 2008.

Katie Whittier

Ms. Whittier graduated from the University of Idaho Summa cum Laude, has worked for the Idaho State Senate, the American Cancer Society, the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival, AFSCME, before joining Senator Patty Murray, initially as Southwest Washington Director and now serving as King County Director

Norm Rice

Before serving two terms as Seattle’s Mayor from 1989 – 1997, Mr. Rice worked as a reporter at KOMO-TV News and KIXI radio. He also served as Assistant Director of the Seattle Urban League, and as Executive Assistant and Director of Government Services for the Puget Sound Council of Governments. He was elected to the in 1978, then re-elected in 1979, 1983, and 1987. After serving as Mayor, he served as CEO and President of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle. In 2009, He was named CEO of the non-profit Seattle Foundation. As a graduate of both Highline Community College and University of Washington, Former Mayor Rice was first recipient of the Highline Community College Distinguished Alumni Award in 1990.

Entertainers

Internationally recognized, Wanz

received three Grammys for Best Rap

Performance and Best Rap Song for

the smash hit “Thrift Shop”, along

with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, and

as a contributor to Macklemore &

Ryan Lewis’ award-winning Best Rap Album

www.wanzmusic.com

Ty Barnett

Ty Barnett, comedian, actor and writer, started his career as a comedian at the Comedy Underground in Seattle. He has appeared on numerous television shows including “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” “The Late Show with Craig Ferguson,” “The Late Late Show,” HBO’s “Bad Boys of Comedy,” VH1’s “Black to the Future,” “Comics Unleashed,” “,” “Comedy Central Presents,” Fox’s “Til Death,” and ABC’s “Samantha Who?”

John Keister

John Keister has worked as a comedian, emcee, keynote speaker, writer, director, commentator, motivational speaker and actor for over twenty years. He is widely known as host of the sketch comedy television show, “Almost Live,” which ran from 1988 – 1998. A UW graduate, he also starred in “The John Report with Bob,” and has given political commentary on KCTS, served as a writer on the public television series, “The Eyes of Nye,” and “Bizkid$” and teaches Video Production classes at the Art Institute of Seattle. He currently stars in a new comedy show, “The 206” aired weekly on KING-TV.