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This week we sit down with Seattle's 58th mayor, Katie Wilson.

Roughly two months into the job, after being a long time progressive organizer, Wilson is a newcomer to elected office, a massive shift and now a key decision maker in one of the fastest growing U.S.

cities that boasts nearly 12,000 city employees and nearly 800,000 residents.

During the campaign, one of the biggest criticisms against Wilson was her inexperience running a large organization.

In a narrow victory against incumbent Bruce Harrell, Wilson is being put to the test.

I had a one on one with Wilson to understand her trajectory from organizer to mayor.

She tells me she's amazed to be in a position where she feels like, with a great team, she can move the needle to improve people's quality of life.

-It's just a different part of the picture, I think, than being on the outside as an organizer.

And you know, always pushing and being like, here's the thing that people need.

We're just going to push and push and push until we get there.

And now being the mayor, feeling that I have kind of a different set of levers at my disposal to get things done, and then at the same time, really feeling also how important it is to have, people and organizations and movements on the outside that are doing that pushing.

-Seattle has a high rate of unsheltered people.

Wilson says it's one of her administration's top priorities to tackle the complex problem.

-So we are, moving rapidly to accelerate expansion of shelter and emergency housing.

We have found, some funding in the city, in the city budget for this.

We are also, going to be, working with council to allocate, some additional funds.

And then we're also working with philanthropic partners to raise money for kind of the capital side of actually standing up new units.

-I'm Paris Jackson.

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