Bargaining Team Co-Chair 

What is your name and what are your pronouns?
Francisca Alvarez (she/her/ella)

Where do you work and what do you do?
I work at Scott Elementary [as the] School-Based Instructional Coach (SBIC). As the SBIC, my work centers on improving instructional quality and academic outcomes for historically underserved students by partnering with teachers to implement equitable, culturally responsive, and data-informed practices.

What is a proud accomplishment of yours as an educator?
As an educator of color, my greatest accomplishment is supporting teachers in creating student-centered systems and lessons where all students feel seen, valued, and affirmed. I encourage educators to reflect on the impact of their instructional choices and to ask who benefits from each decision. Every action I take is grounded in what is best for students and their uncertain future, and what is best and sustainable for teachers to do their work.

Why is being a union member important to you?
Being a union member is important to me because serving students well requires that teachers have a strong voice in the decisions that impact their learning. [PAT] helps create a balance of power by ensuring educators, those who know students best, have a seat at the table. Through the union, teachers can advocate for solutions that are sustainable, practical, and grounded in real classroom experience rather than theory alone.

Bargaining Team Co-Chair

What is your name and what are your pronouns?
Mike Carlip (he/him)

Where do you work and what do you do?
Rapid Response Team - Board Certified Behavior Analyst

What is a proud accomplishment of yours as an educator?
Just making it through that first year. I switched careers and had no idea what I was getting into. And if I had it to do over again, I'd make the same choice 10 out of 10 times.

Why is being a union member important to you?
Through [PAT], I have the privilege to stand shoulder to shoulder with amazingly talented people who are all striving to do our best for our students. I can think of few things more important.

Bargaining Team - HS

What is your name and what are your pronouns?
Bryan Dykman (he/him)

Where do you work and what do you do?
I work at Franklin High School. I teach 9-12 ELA and AVID.

What is a proud accomplishment of yours as an educator?
I've created my own senior English ELA course, Science Fiction, which hundreds of students have taken over the last 10 years. I've coached basketball at Franklin, including 3 years as the JV Men's Head Coach. I've organized several 9th grade poetry slams. And, I've looped with two groups of AVID students, teaching them 9th-12th grade and watching them go from shy freshman to confident, college-ready seniors!

Why is being a union member important to you?
Education is a massive system that takes an organized, group effort to change and improve. Educators know best how to make their schools thrive: the union empowers all of us to make those changes, together.

Bargaining Team - HS 

What is your name and what are your pronouns?
Sarabeth “Sb” Leitch, she/her

Where do you work and what do you do?
McDaniel: ELA & CTE teacher: Dual Credit Creative Writing & Communications; The Oracle (newspaper) & The Mosaic (lit mag) adviser; retired basketball coach; and former building rep.

What is a proud accomplishment of yours as an educator?
Helping foster moments where students feel confident in creating a collaborative space and courageous in sharing their voice, writing, and art with me, their peers, and the community.

Why is being a union member important to you?
So many reasons!

1) My colleagues inspire me, challenge me, and support me, so being a part of an organization framed by collective action matches my passion and my values.

2) When Dr. Bettina Love shared how unions can be the way we shape both our schools and our communities to be more joyful, communal, transformative, equitable, and culturally sustaining, I made the commitment to become a more involved member of our union. And I’ve seen this truth in action when working with other members, admin, and PAT leadership when dreaming and scheming.

3) This affirmation from Chani Nicholas has been guiding me in the last year: “I know that being ‘self-made’ is a marketing scheme. I know that none of us got here on our own and no one builds anything solo. Everything comes into existence through a lacework of interconnection.”

Bargaining Team - HS 

What is your name and what are your pronouns?
Sunshine McFaul-Amadoro (she/her)

Where do you work and what do you do?
Grant High School teacher of awesome writers! (Language Arts/AP/Dual Credit)

What is a proud accomplishment of yours as an educator?
It's hard to single out ONE proudest moment. I feel pride on a daily basis because I get to do what I do.

Why is being a union member important to you?
Being a part of a strong union is everything to me. I value being a part of something that is actively working to make existence in this grind we exist in just a bit better for everyone. We are so much better and stronger as a collective force!!

Bargaining Team - HS 

What is your name and what are your pronouns?
Rion Roberts

Where do you work and what do you do?
Lincoln HS, Social Science. I teach Political Economy, IB History HL 1/2, and Queer Studies.

What is a proud accomplishment of yours as an educator?
I am rather proud of my ability to build inclusive classrooms that allow students to feel they are in a humorous, open, and reciprocal environment, which allows them to take risks and be vulnerable without the baggage and performance that have to carry and put on daily. Personally, I am proud of my ability to communicate complex concepts of political philosophy and critical theory that I have spent and academic career studying in a way that students can readily understand and instantly apply.

Why is being a union member important to you?
Education, as an industry and institution, regularly isolates, silos, or otherwise individuates teachers experiences. Being a member of a union combats this loneliness and shows us all a way of being that is rare in advanced industrial societies: acting in concert, sharing our experiences, building our collective strength. In short, it shows us how to act in solidarity, how to support others and allow ourselves to be supported.

Bargaining Team - Returning Bargaining Team Member, HS

What is your name and what are your pronouns?
Using the Colonial alphabet, Hpiizhi Htaali Maoi. Please don't try and pronounce it. Really. You can call me Walker. My pronouns are He/Him/His

Where do you work and what do you do?
I am an Advanced Math Teacher at Roosevelt, this year teaching Geometry and Financial Algebra.

What is a proud accomplishment of yours as an educator?
My proudest moment as an educator was today, seeing my students marching, chanting "Whose streets? OUR streets" today to protest ICE and police violence. SO proud. Tears.

Why is being a union member important to you?
One grain of sand is an irritant if it is even noticed. A sand storm can strip a granite column to nothing.

Bargaining Team - CTE

What is your name and what are your pronouns?
Luke 'of hazard' Hotchkiss, he/him

Where do you work and what do you do?
Benson Tech, Building Construction Teacher

What is a proud accomplishment of yours as an educator?
I love it when students build things/solve problems in the shop that I didn't know how to do.

Why is being a union member important to you?
Being a union member is important to me because sometimes I make poor choices and need help.

Bargaining Team - Athletic Coaches

What is your name and what are your pronouns?
Rhonda Holmes (she/her)

Where do you work and what do you do?
I work at Roosevelt High School. I’m a Paraeducator in the SES department, supporting students in the classroom with social emotional support. I am also the head dance coach for the Varsity True North Dance Team. This is my 3rd season coaching and my 3rd year as a paraeducator at Roosevelt. I have been with the district for 4 and a half years.

What is a proud accomplishment of yours as an educator?
A proud accomplishment that I have had as an educator is watching the students I support graduate and have them come back to visit me. I enjoy hearing their successes in life after high school. I make a commitment to my kids that I will always be there to support them anyway I can even after high school. I will always be a part of their village.

Why is being a union member important to you?
Being a union member is important to me because it lets me know that I am not alone. I have a group of people who care and are willing to fight together for what is right for not just us as employees, but for the students as well.

Bargaining Team - K-8

What is your name and what are your pronouns?
Josuee Hernandez (he/him)

Bargaining Team - K-8 

What is your name and what are your pronouns?
Alex Prahl (she/her)

Bargaining Team - MS

What is your name and what are your pronouns?
Georgie Steeves (she/her)

Bargaining Team - MS 

What is your name and what are your pronouns?
Valerie Tuner (she/her)

Bargaining Team - K-5

What is your name and what are your pronouns?
Angela Bonilla (she/they/ella)

Bargaining Team - K-5 

What is your name and what are your pronouns?
Caroline Coholan (she/her)

Bargaining Team - K-5

What is your name and what are your pronouns?
Kimberly Young (she/her)

Bargaining Team - Returning Bargaining Team Member/K-5

What is your name and what are your pronouns?
Francisca Alvarez (she/her)

Bargaining Team - Speech Language Pathologists

What is your name and what are your pronouns?
Moira Finnegan (she/ella)

Bargaining Team - Special Education- Learning Center

What is your name and what are your pronouns?
Revi Shohet (they/them)

Bargaining Team - Special Education- Focus Room (ISC, CB, SES)

What is your name and what are your pronouns?
Chrysann Lowe (she/her)

Bargaining Team - Autism Coaches/BCBAs

What is your name and what are your pronouns?
Mike Carlip (he/him)

Bargaining Team - School Counselors

What is your name and what are your pronouns?
Sharitha McKenzie (she/her)

Bargaining Team - Returning Bargaining Team Member/School Counselor

What is your name and what are your pronouns?
Samara Bockelman (she/they)

Bargaining Team - School Social Workers

What is your name and what are your pronouns?
Yaneira Romero Torres (she/her)

Bargaining Team - School Psychologists

What is your name and what are your pronouns?
Calley Ekberg (she/her)

Bargaining Team - Core Enrichment- Library

What is your name and what are your pronouns?
Catherine Tucker (she/her)

Bargaining Team - Core Enrichment- Physical Education

What is your name and what are your pronouns?
Kelly Schlottmann (she/her)

Bargaining Team - Core Enrichment- Visual Arts

What is your name and what are your pronouns?
Andrew Butterfield (he/him)

Bargaining Team - Dual Language Immersion

What is your name and what are your pronouns?
Alexis Quiñonez (she/ella)

Bargaining Team - Focus Programs (Access, Bridger-Creative Science, DaVinci, MLC, Odyssey, Sunnyside, Winterhaven)

What is your name and what are your pronouns?
Sarah Conley 

Bargaining Team - Multilingual Learners/English Language Development

What is your name and what are your pronouns?
Beyoung Yu (he/him)

Bargaining Team - Columbia Regional Inclusive Services (CRIS)

What is your name and what are your pronouns?
Ky Hansen (they/them)