A meet-and-greet visit in Edmonds by State Rep. Brady Piñero Walkinshaw, who is running for the 7th Congressional District to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott, scheduled for next Saturday has been postponed.
We will update our readers as soon as the event is rescheduled.
Walkinshaw, a 43rd District Democrat, grew up in Everson in rural Whatcom County, and graduated from Nooksack High School. He attended Princeton University to study public policy, then won a Fulbright Scholarship to study education systems in Honduras.
While abroad, he founded Proyecto Villa Nueva, a non-profit that fosters youth leadership to prevent violence in urban slums. He launched a career in international development, spending five years at the Gates Foundation, where his work focused on economic opportunity for small farmers.
In 2013, Brady was appointed to represent the 43rd district in the Washington State House. As a legislator, Walkinshaw sponsored ‘Joel’s Law,’ which helps families get emergency mental health treatment for loved ones in crisis. He has also sponsored bills to protect renters, to address the epidemic in heroin and opioid use, and to reform the criminal justice system.
He lives on Capitol Hill with his husband Micah Horwith, a Seattle native and a marine biologist with the State’s Department of Natural Resources.
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Saturday is the 19th. Is he here on the 17th or Saturday?
Apologies. It is the 19th BUT we just learned the event has been postponed until a later date. We are updating the story accordingly.