12/23/2021
Over the past five years, the staff of South of Downtown Community Development Organization (SDCDO) has been proud to serve and strengthen the Everett and Near South neighborhoods alongside our neighbors and community partners. It is with a heavy heart that we announce that all SDCDO staff are stepping down from the organization at the end of 2021. This includes Isabel Salas, Director of Community Engagement; Kat Wiese, Community Arts Organizer; Allie Christianson, Community Organizer; and Shawn Ryba, Executive Director. We do this with confidence in the tools, resources, collective knowledge, leadership and relationships that exist in the Everett and Near South neighborhoods. We appreciate everyone at every level who advocated for neighbors, centered their lived experience, and focused efforts to build on our neighborhoods’ abundance of beauty. This work has always lived within our shared community, being driven by and for neighbors since before we even started with you all. We have faith that everything we had been advocating for together will continue no matter what the next year holds.
We wrote you a letter sharing this news, which you can read at https://lincolnsouthdowntown.org/news-events/news.html/article/2021/12/23/a-letter-from-sdcdo-staff (link in bio), and we also would like to share a Year in Review report. This details all the amazing things we did together this past year, and you can read it at https://lincolnsouthdowntown.org/news-events/news.html (link in bio).
With gratitude,
Your friends at South of Downtown CDO
(ID: SDCDO staff in front of the South of Downtown Art Hub from left to right: Isabel Salas, Allie Christianson, Kat Wiese, and Shawn Ryba. All are wearing t-shirts with the South of Downtown logo and are smiling. This is the last photo we took of our team together, and know that we are smiling for all of you, thankful for all of you, and so so happy to be your neighbors.)
