by Luna Reyna
After a shooting in a Safeway parking lot in South Seattle made headlines in July, Marty Jackson’s name became known across the state, but for people living, working, and raising their families in South Seattle, Marty Jackson has been a familiar face throughout her entire life and community pillar for peace as the executive director of SE Network SafetyNet for over 13 years.
“You hear all this negative media out here,” Jackson said during the press conference in August. “Bet you didn’t know we were here for the last three years, did you? Until 10 o’clock that night. Just as we have to take the negative things that happened in this parking lot, we also have to celebrate the lives that were saved and the lives that have been saved as a result of what these folks do.”
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