Lisa Keating was our first interview this year with a school board candidate this year (and our only one with someone with purple hair!). Keating, who founded and heads an organization that advocates for LGBT youth, is challenging the formidable 30-year incumbent Debbie Winskill for position 1 in November.

Keating explains why she decided to run, and we talked at length about equity and inclusion in the school district and her work in Tacoma schools over the last decade. We also vented frustrations with some of the school board’s actions during the strike last year, and she told us how they might have been handled differently.

Check below for some original Channel 253 reporting by Sean Robinson on this high profile school board race. And become a member, everyone’s doing it.

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