Overview
- Wilson unveiled an initial team led by Transition Director Andrés Mantilla with co-chairs Karen Estevenin, Tiffani McCoy, Quynh Pham and Brian Surratt.
- Her office said the group will collect community input to identify early policy priorities, with a full transition committee to be announced in the coming weeks.
- Wilson emphasized tackling the city’s affordability challenges, while appointees highlighted social housing, housing production, homelessness response, labor representation, neighborhood small-business support and economic development.
- Mantilla previously directed the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods and worked in the administrations of Greg Nickels and Jenny Durkan.
- Surratt leads Greater Seattle Partners and helped negotiate the Climate Pledge Arena agreement, while McCoy, Estevenin and Pham bring social housing, public-sector labor and community development experience.