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Joy Johnson
Joy serves as our new Treasurer. She enjoys using her long career of highly developed technical and analytical skills, and her experience working for nonprofit organizations to support the business side of Arlington, WA Pride. Professionally Joy is a Chief of Staff and Analyst in Aerospace Engineering where she has worked for 14 years. She has been an Arlington resident for 5 years and had previously resided in the North Snohomish County communities of Granite Falls, Camano Island, and Stanwood since moving to Washington state 21 years ago. She grew up in North San Diego County, California, and moved to Washington as an active-duty Navy spouse.
Joy is passionate about love, kindness, inclusion, and supporting and advocating for the members of her community who feel unseen and marginalized. She values and believes strongly in social and racial justice, human rights, equality, and equity. She volunteers with Arlington Public Schools District on the District and Community Equity Team (DCET), 39th Legislative District Democrats, Planned Parenthood, and Immune Deficiency Foundation. To help support her advocacy goals, at work Joy is also a member of many Business Resource Groups including Employee Pride Alliance and she is a Board Member for the Employee Ability Awareness Association. During college Joy volunteered with an at-risk youth nonprofit where she trained and became a Volunteer Crisis Intervention Counselor.
Joy is a married cis hetero Mom of one daughter who also loves to help with all our Pride events and activities. She has a beautiful adult trans niece and has always been considered part of the community by her LGBTQ+ friends and loved ones located all over the country.
In her spare time when she’s not working or volunteering, she spends time with her family and their many fur-babies (5 cats, 1 dog), watching fantasy/sci-fi/paranormal/historical dramas/documentaries on Netflix, indoor and outdoor gardening, tropical fish, crafting, collecting rocks and gems, and classic muscle cars.
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Kathryn
Kathryn has been a resident of the Arlington area for over 11 years. She is a member of the LGBTQ+ community, as are a few close family members. She has 3 adult children and has 2 young ones with her Significant Other, Grant.
Kathryn grew up in Helena Montana and started her advocacy journey at a young age. Her first sit in was as a freshman in High School. She is a survivor of domestic violence as well as childhood sexual assault and sex trafficking and has made it her mission to help those in need.
She obtained her GED after leaving her marriage and home state and soon after became a CNA.
Kathryn graduated from Parent Leadership Training Institute, a course on civic engagement in 2019. She also helped coordinate a trial PLTI class in Arlington and continues to volunteer for Washington Family Engagement, as well as other organizations across the state and nationally. She also served as Chair on Snohomish County ECEAP Policy Advisory Council, served as secretary for a term and is continuing to serve.
Kathryn is a Cohort 12 (Pandemic 12/ QuarantineCohort) Parent Ambassador Graduate and serves on the Board of WSA as Parent Ambassador alumni. She continues to take antiracism classes and strives to constantly learn and connect with others.
Kathryn is passionate about advocating and helping others learn they have a voice. It is her mission to be an ally and friend and to help create space for marginalized communities to use their voices. She is very excited to take on the role of secretary of the board and be a part of making history!
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.” ~Alice Walker
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Jody
Jody is the middle-aged queer spawn of lesbian parents. While she identifies as a hetero cisgender woman, she has grown up in the community her entire life. She started her advocacy in the early 90s when she saw what the HIV and AIDS epidemic was doing to the LGBTQ community. She started raising money for the Inspire Youth Project formerly known as Rise n' Shine that provided emotional support programs, stability, advocacy, and education for at-risk children and teens affected by HIV and AIDS. Later she would march every year in the Seattle AIDS walk hosted by the Lifelong AIDS Alliance. She attended and marched in many of Seattle’s Pride parades back when they were on Capital Hill and has loved watching that smaller parade of the early 90’s become the juggernaut of Pride that it is today. Jody has experience planning large corporate events and is excited to lend her expertise as a Board Member at Large to Arlington WA Pride. Today Jody works in the world of Compensation teaching companies how to get pay right for their employees and educating them on how to close gender and racial wage gaps. At work, she is on the council for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging where she helps create policy for equitable recruiting, education, and making sure her company is a safe place where people can bring their whole selves to work.
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Caera Gramore
Caera is serving as Acting President; she has been an open member of the LGBTQ+ community since 1995. She has participated in many Pride events for youth as well as adults since that time, across 3 different states and many different local events. Caera also enjoyed participating in same-sex ballroom dance competitions and community. Caera and her spouse built their home in Arlington as part of a team home-building project. Caera has been a presenter in Arlington’s Stronger Together events, and hopes to see Arlington WA Pride grow as a local organization in building local community supports for diverse community members. Caera earned her Masters in Social Work (MSW) at UW Seattle, and currently owns and operates her own therapy practice, Healing Spirals PLLC, in Arlington.
