Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson announced her transition team yesterday. Andrés Mantilla, a partner with consulting firm Uncommon Bridges, is the director. Co-chairs include Karen Estevenin, executive director of PROTEC17, a union that represents more than 3,000 city workers, Tiffani McCoy, the co-executive director of House Our Neighbors, Quynh Pham, executive director of Friends of Little Saigon, and Brian Surratt, president and CEO of Greater Seattle Partners.

SIFF Shifts: Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) Executive Director Tom Mara is exiting his role “effective immediately,” according to an internal all-staff email obtained by the Seattle Times. The email said it was a mutual decision between Mara and SIFF’s board of directors. Mara’s exit comes after SIFF laid off 21% of its admi

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