WE WORK HARD FOR A LIVING, WE ARE PROUDLY FROM NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON, AND WE ARE CALLING FOR A BETTER FUTURE.
Who we are
We love where we live. We are hard-working families, young people, and seniors. We are multi-generational Washingtonians and we are immigrants. We are fifth-generation pear farmers and first-generation craft beer brewers. We are small business innovators, teachers, students, and laborers. We are the vast majority of people just trying to make a good life in rural Washington. But it’s getting harder to just make it here, and we’re working to change that.
Why are we coming together?
The costs of childcare, rent, food, and insurance or medical care are skyrocketing, and no matter how hard we work, our paychecks can’t be stretched far enough to cover it all.
We’re clear about the downward path that got us here: insurance that doesn’t actually cover the medical bills; childcare that costs too much or can’t be found; rising food costs each year; skyrocketing housing costs; and a tax system that makes a grocery store clerk in Waterville give more of their income to taxes than a millionaire in Seattle.
We want our kids, our aging parents, our neighbors—all of us—to have a shot at a good life here in the place we call home
What’s it take for us to win a better future for working people and families?
We need leaders who take action, stand for the rest of us, and fix this broken system. Our young people need hope as division and a rigged system deports their parents, compounds their student debts, and diminishes their chances of buying a home. This isn’t about the left vs. the right, this is about working people getting enough and those at the top not taking it all. When we come together, we can win the future we need.
OUR TEAM
ADVISORY TEAM
Our Advisory Team is incredible; they are working people and community leaders from every corner of North Central Washington. Teachers, union leaders, social workers, construction workers, baristas, Tribal members and more, we’re all at this table because we are ready for a new political voice and we want to tell a new story of what NCW stands for.
Elana Mainer, co-chair
Elana was born in eastern Washington and calls Okanogan County home. She grew up surrounded by hard-working families, and knows that too many are losing ground. After 10 years as a social worker, a whole lotta years waiting tables, and lots of hard-earned wins as a leader in rural community health, Elana is doing this work for every family that is hustling and hoping things will get easier someday, and for the next generation of rural kids.
Adrianne Moore, co-chair
Adrianne grew up in small towns and farms across eastern Washington. In a family of seven, she was taught hard work and determination, and generosity that grows the harder things get. These lessons rooted her as she led countywide initiatives for housing and youth resources, advocated for rural health policy, and ran for political office. Adrianne is in this work because she knows rural people are being left behind, and she wants to make sure we have the power we need to shape a better future.