City Year is an organization that has been around for 22 years; founded in 1988 by two Harvard Law roommates who believed that if you get young people to focus on a social issue you can make a greater impact. The Seattle location started 10 years later, in 1998, and has been making a differences in our city ever since.
City Year’s name comes from the idea that each individual should take a year out of their life to give back to their city, or their country. Bill Clinton used …

Seattle secret events? Not really. Even if I only happened to find out about this event the morning of. Free is always appealing to me and when I heard some of Seattle’s best emcees and poets would be there experiencing something new like this might be kind of nice. Turns out it was part of paying tribute to Seattle’s longest running luxury hotel, Sorrento, celebrating 100 years. I arrived 8pm sharp and already was the room beginning to fill. Seats were all taken so I propped myself onto the ground, …