Help Hopelink make sure every child is ready for school | Editorial
Each summer Hopelink distributes backpacks stuffed with pencils, notebooks, calculators, crayons, glue and other back-to-school essentials.
Columnist
Jennifer Hemmingsen
is a member of The Seattle Times editorial board.
You don't have to be a fashionista to care about the future of downtown retail | Jennifer Hemmingsen
What will downtown retail look like 60 years from now?
Making sure all Seattle students benefit from donor support | Jennifer Hemmingsen | Opinion
Until schools are amply funded, they'll continue leaning heavily on parent and community contributions.
Can an Olympic Peninsula Fat Smitty's burger bring people together? | Jennifer Hemmingsen
As candidates gear up for midterms, they should pay attention to rural voters who have been left out of political conversations.
Give neighborhoods the tools to help fight homelessness | Jennifer Hemmingsen / Times Opinion columnist
To heal the city, leaders should engage the housed neighbors who have been helplessly watching this humanitarian crisis unfold.
In a Seattle school’s backyard, lessons on compassion and its limits | Jennifer Hemmingsen / Times Opinion columnist
Why is it so hard for Seattle city and school board members to acknowledge that homelessness is a humanitarian crisis that affects the entire community?
Adults get ‘F’ on teaching racial history in schools | Jennifer Hemmingsen / Times Opinion columnist
It's adults — mostly white adults — not kids who are terrified that calling attention to the problems of systemic racism will somehow make them...
Leadership matters in Seattle’s homelessness crisis | Jennifer Hemmingsen / Times Opinion columnist
Voters have a chance to set a new course in November with the election of a new mayor, two council members and a city attorney.
Big hearts: There’s room for all the citizen-led responses to Seattle’s homelessness crisis | Jennifer Hemmingsen / Times Opinion columnist
Tired of doing nothing, volunteer groups like We Heart Seattle are making a difference in the community through outreach.
Ordinary heroism in a year of extraordinary change | Jennifer Hemmingsen / Times Opinion columnist
During this pandemic year, so many ordinary people have stepped up in extraordinary ways.