LEGACY

The People’s Assembly is a grassroots organizing group of homies who love each other, our community, and the dream of liberation. Throughout our tenure, our dynamic collective has evolved between 2-9+ members who have stewarded and tended to the spaces we’ve held for direct action, creative resistance, and abolitionist dreaming.

We honor the following individuals who have shaped the previous chapters of our story and who devoted their care, wisdom, and power to this ever-evolving legacy:

  • Lee Barker (2016-2024)

  • Bri Jones (2016-2021)

  • Zayda Wilson (2016-2020)

  • True McBride (2016-2019)

  • Simone Gamble (2014-17)

  • Raphael Hartman (2014-17)

  • Michelle Woo (2014-17)

  • LaMont Green (2014-2015)

  • Lorenzo Cervantes (2014-15)

  • LeDi Horton (2014-15)

  • Georgia Horton (2014-15)

Current Stewards / Co-Organizers

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thy nguyễn (she/they) is a viet refugee descendant, queer, and chronically-ill person who sings, writes, and resides in the stolen lands of the puyallup tribe. during the day, thy works as associate director of grants/data/operations at the ywca-seattle and manages their independent consulting business delivering coaching and facilitation to individuals/groups across puget sound; during the evening, she holds spaces for creative resistance, healing, and expression as a community organizer with the people's assembly; and during the night, they write songs and dream of ways to build towards a free and just world.

“To me, The People's Assembly’s mission is about mobilizing the people’s power to abolish white supremacy (and intersecting oppressions) and to create new systems of community care, safety, and freedom. What this looks like is holding spaces for deliberate imagination, creative resistance, and collective healing. I believe that the revolution of my generation is doing the work to do “The Work” — creating the conditions that will enable our future seeds to actualize justice and liberation.”

 

E.B. (they/them) has a passion for supporting young people in exploring, finding, and building their strength and power to thrive.  

“To me, The People’s Assembly moves and adapts and re-imagines what’s possible as the terrain of crisis and violence continually shifts. We unlearn harm and re-learn the skills to take care of each other and build bridges to the future we dream of. We imagine and we get to work.”