Commissioners
Commissioner - Hân Trần
Hân Trần was appointed to the Commission by Governor Jay Inslee in June 2022.
Mrs. Trần is a mother, wife, electrical engineer, community advocate, and a Vietnamese-American immigrant currently residing in King County.
After the fall of Saigon, Mrs. Trần and her family escaped certain death and persecution on a rickety boat crossing the South China Sea to the Philippines. Her childhood experience in America with poverty, social support programs, family member’s post-traumatic stress disorder, and other family hardships are a few major factors that propelled her into advocating for an equitable and just society.
The human struggle for freedom is binding and arduous. This is the core of Mrs. Trần’s belief as she stands on the shoulders of giants like her parents, Asian civil rights activists like Grace Lee Boggs, and Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King Sr., and Bayard Rustin who called upon President Carter and the United States Congress to facilitate the entrance of refugees like her parents and her. She feels it is incumbent upon all of us, especially those privileged, to continue the fight for equity and freedom by empowering future generations and others who are historically marginalized.
In addition to serving as chair and steering committee member for various community advocacy groups, Mrs. Trần is an innovation manager at a local tech company utilizing agile methodology relentlessly pursuing ideas to better the environment, social contributions, and provide jobs. Mrs. Trần has a Masters of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering as well as a certificate of readiness from Harvard Business School. Her goal is to humanize conversations and bring in a different perspective to the tech industry by persisting in this space. She hopes to continue to blend empathy, justice, and tech.
Term: 06/22 - 06/26
Commissioner - Luc fils Jasmin
Was appointed to the commission by Governor Jay Inslee in June 2023.
Mr. Jasmin was born in Haiti. Grew up in the United States in the new England area of Boston Massachusetts. An accountant and evangelical Pastor, a resident of Spokane WA. Luc Jasmin, a pillar in community leadership founded the: Spokane Ministerial Fellowship an assembly of many different ethnic communities of churches. Pastor Jasmin leads initiatives to promote personal finance and financial literacy, particularly in underserved communities, catalyzing positive change within a short span.
His outreach extends to grassroot efforts in disadvantage communities, facilitating access to resources that would enable them to fight against any type of discrimination.
Amongst his many hats, Luc founded the Jasmin group, the Jasmin and associates Financial Services, the Spokane ministerial fellowship, Eglise Evangelique Maranatha / Jasmin Ministries Inc, all to serve his community.
Term: 06/23 - 06/28
Commissioner - Chelsea Dimas
Chelsea Dimas was appointed to the Commission by Governor Jay Inslee in April 2023.
Term: 04/23 - 06/27
Commissioner - Kyle Wood
Kyle Wood is an attorney at the Seattle law firm Schroeter, Goldmark & Bender, where his practice focuses primarily on representing victims of mass toxic torts. He is also an affiliate instructor at the University of Washington School of Law and an international lawyer, where his practice focuses on international humanitarian law and international criminal law. He has helped train lawyers and civilians around the world on documenting human rights abuses, has supported the litigation of cases involving human rights abuses in the International Court of Justice and in national courts around the world, and has investigated and advised the U.S. State Department on allegations of mass atrocities.
As an Assistant Attorney General in the Washington State Office of the Attorney General from 2018-2023, Kyle led the Attorney General’s fight against human trafficking and the commercial sexual exploitation of children in Washington by litigating human trafficking cases and by advocating for victim-centered, trauma-informed policy changes to help survivors of human trafficking in Washington.
Kyle has also served as an international criminal prosecutor at a United Nations court in The Hague, Netherlands, where he successfully prosecuted and defended on appeal convictions for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions.
Kyle volunteers as a pro bono attorney for Kids in Need of Defense, a global organization devoted to protecting unaccompanied and separated children, and serves as a volunteer election observer for national elections in Europe and Asia.
He is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Law and the University of Montana.
Term: 02/26 - 06/29
