Publisher

Trevor Griffey is the Publisher and founder of the Olympia Newswire.

Trevor is a PhD candidate in U.S. History at the University of Washington (UW). He is the Co-Founder and Project Coordinator for the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project. During the time that the Newswire was operating, he taught an undergraduate course at the UW whose research papers fed into a digital history project about the Great Depression in Washington state.

Trevor’s writing experience brings together the writing of history, opinion, interviews, and community journalism. He is the co-editor of Black Power at Work, a book about black power and affirmative action politics in the construction industry in the 1960s, which is forthcoming in the Fall of 2010 with Cornell University Press. And he has been a Contributing Writer for Real Change, the South Seattle Star, ColorsNW, and the Seattle Weekly.

Trevor’s writing in 2002 for ColorsNW won two awards from the Western Washington chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists for magazine reporting, and his writing won the Campus Alternative Journalism Project award for best story on labor issues in 2005. His academic writing in won the Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA)’s best graduate student paper in 2004-5.