Kari Isaacson for state senator, 16th district

To the editor

We have an excellent opportunity to strengthen our district’s representation in Olympia by electing Kari Isaacson State Senator for the 16th legislative district. 

Kari has had an extraordinary career and continues to carry her work ethic, integrity, knowledge, and faith to community service.  I have known her since she arrived in the Walla Walla Valley to lead the Blue Mountain Community Foundation, a treasured and highly successful organization serving four counties. She assumed responsibility for multi-million-dollar investments, fundraising, and community grantmaking and she did it well. Her work touched the lives of thousands.

Kari’s training as an attorney and experience leading complex organizations, including a Fortune 500 company and two significant foundations, provided sterling preparation for elected office. She has been exposed to and thrived in diverse cultures and communities. 

I am most impressed, however, with Kari’s boundless yet pragmatic enthusiasm for serving others as a problem-solving leader, a committed volunteer, a dedicated friend. She is capable of refining the complicated challenges of our lives into tangible, approachable, and often solvable pieces. Her style is connected, collaborative, compassionate, and collegial.

I encourage you to learn more about Kari and support her with your vote.

Cindy Widmer

College Place, Wash.