About Us
Citizens for a Community Center at MLK (CCC@MLK)
Citizens for a Community Center at M.L. King (CCC@MLK) is a group of citizens from the Central Area community and Madison Valley neighborhood working together to establish a community center at M. L. King Jr. Elementary School, to serve youth, families and life-long learners. The center will honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy by promoting interaction, growth and exchange between people of diverse ages, socio-economic backgrounds and cultures.
Our Steering Committee
CCC@MLK has a volunteer steering committee, which works to organize, gather information and make our vision of a community center a reality. Adrienne Bailey - President
Adrienne's parents bought their home in Madison Valley over 50 years ago. She was born and raised in the Valley and attended Harrison Elementary (later MLK). She has been a longtime community activist, involved in the Greater Madison Valley Community Council and served as president of the Central Area Neighborhood District Council. She also worked as Director of Seattle Central Community College's Community Outreach Partnership Center. She is former Chair of the Central Area Neighborhood Plan Stewardship and current member of the City's Neighborhood Plan Advisory Committee (NPAC).
Kimberly Larson-Edwards - Vice-President
Kimberly is the Communications Director for the Public Interest Network, a national network of public-interest organizations that includes Environment America, U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG), Progressive Future and the Fund for Public Interest. She has a fifteen-year background in grassroots organizing, event planning, fundraising, public relations and education and the arts. After several years in Washington, D.C. Kimberly and her husband, Scott, moved to Seattle in 2003. She is a member of the Greater Madison Valley Community Council and she and Scott live in Madison Valley with their son, Miles, and daughter, Harper.
Bart Ozretich - Secretary
Bart graduated from the University of Washington with a Master of Social Work in Multi-Ethnic Practice in 2001 and has since done paid and volunteer work for community-based non-profits, such as Asian Counseling and Referral Service (ACRS), Refugee Women’s Alliance (ReWA), and Washington Asian and Pacific Islander Families Against Substance Abuse (WAPIFASA). For the past three years, he has worked with immigrant and refugee youth and their families as a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker. He is also dedicated to making art and music history and performance open and accessible to all. He has lived in Madison Valley since 2006 with his wife Linda and daughter Zoe.
Dan Schmitt - Treasurer
Dan (who is married to Angie Bolton and a longtime resident of Madison Valley) is former executive director of VSA Arts of Washington and current member of the Washington State Arts Commission’s Access Advisory Team. He has been employed by Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras as grants manager since June 2006. He continues to perform as a professional bassist and enjoys studying world drumming traditions.
Angie Bolton
An actress, singer, dancer, teaching artist and fitness instructor who
has lived in the Madison Valley neighborhood for many years, Angie
works as a teacher and registrar for Spectrum Dance Studio. She has
served as a Bumbershoot Festival commissioner and grant panelist for
WSAC, KCAC and SAC. She was the Managing Artistic Director of Growth
and Prevention Theatre from 1999 to 2008.
Kristen Fritsch
Kristen is a project manager, designer and sustainability consultant for Boxwood, a Seattle design firm. She has lived in Madison Valley for eight years with her husband and three young children. Kristen is a LEED Accredited Professional, a member of the Seattle AIA and U.S. Green Building Council Cascadia Chapter. She serves on the AIA Committee on the Environment.
Libby Sinclair
Libby has been a Seattle public school teacher and Madison Valley resident for many years, and is dedicated to making art education available to students of all economic and cultural backgrounds.
Peter Triandafilou
Peter has been a resident of Madison Valley for 16 years and is the current (and past) President and Treasurer of the Greater Madison Valley Community Council. He is an attorney with a solo general practice with a Madison Valley office. He represents individuals, non-profit organizations and small businesses at affordable rates and does a substantial amount of pro bono work. He also has a background as a certified public accountant. He was an active neighborhood representative of the Seattle Public Utilities' Engineering Subcommittee that addressed design issues for the stormwater projects to alleviate the area's severe flooding problem.
Andy Engelson
Andy was one of the steering committee members who initially spearheaded the effort to create a community center at MLKing Jr. Elementary. In August of 2009, Andy moved to Vietnam with his family and expects to be there for two years. Before moving abroad, Andy worked as the editor of Washington Trails magazine and prior to that as a freelance journalist and arts writer for Seattle Weekly, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Washington Law & Politics and many other publications. He lived in Madison Valley (where he still has a home) for six years with his wife Joanie and two daughters, Fiona and Matilda.