We Heart Seattle founder Andrea Suarez said she gave up a corporate career, invested $25,000 of her own money, and spent three years picking up trash for free before building a volunteer army that has removed 2.2 million pounds of debris from Seattle’s streets and encampments. So when a state investigation and public scrutiny of her nonprofit’s finances hit at the same time, she didn’t hold back.
“All of a sudden, who is We Heart Seattle? As if I’m some kind of grifter, who’s sacrificed everything to do this work,” Suarez said on “The Gee and Ursula Show” on KIRO Newsradio. “I mean, everything.”
“Would you like to meet me in an open-air drug market where people are shooting methamphetamines and smoking fentanyl? Because that’s my office,” Suarez said…