Part 6: Work – Page 2 – Olywa Days of Change

How a Data Report on Racial Bias in Corrections Affected My Career – By Pat Holm

September 15, 2025March 20, 2023 by Olywa Days of Change

I am proud of that work. It took discipline to stay with it and finish the paper. This paper and the story in the Seattle Sun pretty much destroyed my ability to ever get another job in the DOC research shop, however. I had tried getting the attention of my supervisor and the bosses above him about what I had discovered. But unequal treatment of minorities was not anything they were interested in, that is until I went public. So, in many ways I do not regret that I did what I did.

Union Organizing at the Evergreen State College – By Steven Kant

September 15, 2025July 31, 2022 by Olywa Days of Change

Staff at the college, however, were state employees and worked under conditions governed by the state civil service system. In these early days, Evergreen administrators tended to ignore the state rules and treated everyone as part of the “community family,” although Daddy was actually in charge.