Kristi Cruz is an attorney and policy advocate with more than 17 years of experience advancing civil rights, language access, and disability rights across public systems. For nearly 15 years at Northwest Justice Project, she represented low-income clients in civil matters through CLEAR*ASL, a statewide program providing direct civil legal services in American Sign Language to Deaf clients.
My name is Evelynn Michaud-Spangler, and I was born and raised in Everett, Washington. I recently moved back to the Puget Sound area after graduating with my Master of Public Affairs from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
At UW-Madison, I worked as a Higher Education and Public Affairs Fellow in the Vice Chancellor’s Office of Finance and Administration as well as a Project Assistant and later Research Coordinator at the Institute for Research on Poverty. Prior to grad school, I worked as a Data Analyst and Academic Advisor at the University of Washington Bothell.
On the ancestral homelands of the Snoqualmie Indian Tribe, state agency leaders, statewide elected officials, and representatives from sovereign tribal nations gathered for the 37th Annual Centennial Accord from October 12th-14th. The meeting was held in the Snoqualmie Tribe's newly completed facility, a thoughtfully engineered architectural tradition of an ancestral longhouse. The summit marked 37 years of formal government-to-government relations in Washington State.