1. Carol Consuela Moon was born on June 21,1963 and is an American political activist who was part of the campaign to re-open Seattle's waterfront after the replacement of the Alaskan Way Viaduct.
10 Facts About Cary Moon
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Cary Moon was a candidate for Mayor of Seattle in the 2017 mayoral election, finishing second in the primary and advancing to face Jenny Durkan.
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Cary Moon was born in Pennsylvania and raised in Buchanan, Michigan, one of seven siblings.
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The Moon family owned an industrial respirator manufacturing business, which Cary helped run in the early 1990s.
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Cary Moon attended the University of Michigan, earning a bachelor's degree in operations engineering, and later earned a master's degree in landscape architecture with a certificate in urban design from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997.
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Cary Moon moved to Seattle in 1998, establishing an urban design and landscape architecture firm named Landscape Agents and serving as its principal until 2006.
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Cary Moon co-founded the People's Waterfront Coalition with activist Grant Cogswell in 2004, in response to plans to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct, an elevated freeway on the Seattle waterfront, with a new freeway.
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Cary Moon declared her candidacy for mayor of Seattle on April 17,2017, running primarily on the issue of housing affordability in the city.
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Cary Moon finished narrowly ahead of activist Nikkita Oliver in the primary election, with a margin of 1,170 votes.
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Cary Moon is married to Mark Reddington, a principal with LMN Architects, and has two teenage children.