Shasti Conrad not only leads the Democratic Party in our state, she’s a national leader too – a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee.
But when Conrad spoke to Sunday’s monthly meeting of West Seattle Indivisible, she made it clear she wasn’t there as a cheerleader for the Democratic Party’s status quo. Conrad said she’s hoping to be a changemaker from within, believing the party is “in a revolutionary moment.”
She’s already done some changemaking via history-making in a variety of ways, including by being the first South Asian woman to lead a state party in the U.S. But her attributes go beyond her identity, said Jordan Crawley, chair of the 34th District Democrats, who introduced her, saying they’d met during her days as chair of the King County Democrats. Crawley declared, “After seven years, I can confidently say she is what leadership looks like.”…