KING 5's Jean Enersen June 1, 2013 Northwest Newsmakers special. Watch her interviews with:
- Clarence Acox, jazz band director for Garfield High School. He came to Seattle from New Orleans 40 years ago and has created perhaps the nation's top high school jazz program.
- Alan Gottlieb, head of the Second Amendment Foundation, a national organization located in Bellevue. He is a gun rights advocate who supported both universal background check proposals in Congress and in the state legislature. He explains why he thinks both laws failed.
- The team of Jane Jones and Myra Platt is behind Book-it Theatre. It is totally devoted to turning books into plays and by extension, turning people into readers.
- Adam Cornell went into the foster care system when he was 8. Cornell was adopted when he was 14 but his father committed suicide just before Cornell's high school graduation. He talks to Jean about surviving foster care and the value of family.
To learn more about adoption of foster kids, check out this link: http://amaraparenting.org/
- Steven Kim is a King County prosecutor who spent a year in Korea educating Koreans about the benefits of the American jury system. It was a little more dangerous than it sounds.
- Mary Alice Heuschel is Governor Inslee's chief of staff. Before she joined his administration she was one of the state's top school district superintendents. Why did she make the switch?
Newsmakers remembers local health advocate Willie Austin, who died suddenly this Spring. If you'd like to learn more about Austin's foundation, check out this link:
http://www.youthandfitness.org/events.php#fundraiser
