Randy Engstrom (Board President) has been a passionate advocate and organizer for cultural and community development for over 10 years. He currently runs Reflex Strategies and is Chair of the Seattle Arts Commission and serves as chair of the Board of the Washington Bus Education Fund. He was most recently the Deputy Director of the Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association (DNDA) and was the Founding Director of the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, a multimedia/multidisciplinary community space. In 2009 Randy received the Emerging Leader Award from Americans for the Arts and was one of Puget Sound Business Journal’s 40 Under 40. Also, his hair is beautiful (although he’d never say it).

Cyrus Habib is not just a huge fan of the Peanuts Gang; he is also an attorney and a former literature graduate student. In 2001, Cyrus interned for Senator Maria Cantwell, beginning a long tradition of working for little to no pay and enjoying it far too much. He attended Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and later Yale Law School, before realizing that his soul was crying out for a return to the I405 corridor.  He currently practices law at Perkins Coie. Cyrus serves on the King County Civil Rights Commission and on the board of the Bellevue College Foundation. If you see him on the street, be sure to start singing: “I wear my sunglasses at night!”

Josh Johnston is one of the co-founders of the Washington Bus. Josh cut his teeth while running campaigns for the likes of Representative Brian Blake, Congressman Brian Baird and Gov. Howard Dean. He finally broke off the campaign trail, and has worked for Congressman Norm Dicks and King County Councilmember Julia Patterson. Josh is currently in graduate school at the Evans School of Public Affairs getting his executive Masters in Public Administration. In between classes and homework assignments he is training for a half marathon with his wife, wikipedia-ing everything, and watching Entourage.

Kristina Logsdon first developed her organizing skills working as a field organizer with the Washington Toxics Coalition, where she became acutely aware of the inequities between communities and elected officials. As Racial Justice Campaign Coordinator for Progressive Majority, Kristina recruited and trained progressive candidates of color for public office. Under her tenure she helped to elect Washington State’s first Samoan-American elected official. Kristina is now Political Director with the Win/Win Network where she manages the Ballot Initiative Network and works to empower underserved communities in Central Washington. In her spare time, she hikes, quilts, knits, and plays Rock Band.

Mollie McDirmid is the Bus’ amazing Finance Committee Chair. She has worked in corporate finance for 5 years and currently work on mergers & acquisitions at a large, local software company (ah-hem!). She grew up (sometimes without electricity) in a very small town in Eastern Washington, so she is passionate about bringing political awareness and opportunity to every young Washington resident, regardless of geography or financial means. She loves cats and Excel way more than any young, single woman should, and in her free time she passionately supports Husky athletics, hiking local trails, and finding new favorite restaurants.

Elizabeth Mendoza, a Yakima native (aka Yakimaniac), works for Ready by Five, an early learning project designed to prepare children prenatal to five years of age for kindergarten success in east Yakima. Elizabeth first became interested in the political process after attending M.E.Ch.A. conferences in high school. She enjoys taco trucks, Yakima Valley wines, dancing cumbia and bringing political awareness to Latinos in Central Washington.

Joe Mirabella is an avid community organizer for the LGBTQ communities. He was the Social Media Director for the Approve Referendum 71 campaign, which was the country’s first voter approved expansion of gay and lesbian state’s rights in the history of the United States. Joe is a board member for the Greater Seattle Business Association, and blogs on the Huffington Post, the SeattlePI, and the Bilerico Project. Joe is the co-host of the country’s only LGBT political round table podcast featuring our nation’s top LGBT leadership, SameSexSunday. Mirabella is the Owner and CEO of Emerging Media LLC, a social media marketing company.

A Detroit-native, Jody Waits has spent the last 14 years in Seattle fund & friend raising for really awesome organizations, and currently spends her days with Pride Foundation.  You can regularly find her digging in a thrift store, doing impressions of her mom, hosting 10 for dinner, playing pinball and laughing loudly in public.