KING COUNTY DEMOCRATS 2012 CANDIDATE QUESTIONNAIRE – CONGRESS, SENATE, LEGISLATURE Candidate Name Stephanie Bowman Position sought State House of Representatives Residence Legislative, 11, 8, 7 County Council and Congressional district Do you publicly YES declare to be a Democrat? Campaign Information Campaign Name People for Stephanie Bowman Web page Campaign Email
[email protected] address Manager Campaign mailing PO Box 84415, Seattle WA 98124 address Campaign phone 206-898-3043 number Campaign FAX Campaign Christian Sinderman Consultant(s) Candidate Background: Community service, education, employment and other relevant experience. Describe your qualifications, education, employment, community and civic activity, Union affiliation and other relevant experience. I will bring to the Legislature more than fifteen years of public policy experience in the non-profit, public and private sector, community leadership and personal experiences as a single, professional female from a working-class background who understands the struggles of the middle class. In my job as the Executive Director of the statewide non-profit Washington Asset Building Coalition (WABC), I work every day on progressive state policies and programs to help Washington families build an economic safety net: investing in education, build savings and creating opportunities to own a home or start a business. Specifically, issues on which we work are foreclosure prevention; providing access to safe financial services (i.e., helping un-banked residents and eliminating practices such as predatory lending); Working Families Tax Credit and EITC campaigns, and microenterprise development, particularly for women and minority populations. The opportunity to build these sorts of assets not only helps citizens move out of poverty but is fundamental to maintaining and growing the middle class.