Why 12s Owe Sounders Supporters A Thank-You Card
Jeannie Yandel speaks to Fred Mendoza, vice chair of the Washington State Public Stadium Authority and a longtime member of the Seattle soccer community. He helped rally support in a statewide vote for the stadium we now know as CenturyLink Field. He told her how soccer fans saved the Seahawks. In the mid-90s the Seahawks were set to move to California. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen offered to buy the team and keep them in the city but on one condition: taxpayers had to approve public funding for a new football stadium.
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Jeannie Yandel
Special Projects Editor
Jeannie Yandel is a special projects editor focusing on podcasts and broadcast shows. She created and co-hosted the KUOW podcast Battle Tactics For Your Sexist Workplace and ran and edited KUOW's podcast about local curiosity, SoundQs. She also co-created and co-hosted KUOW's YouTube interview series, Are We Going To Be OK?. Previously, she was senior producer for The Conversation and KUOW Presents, and was Executive Producer for The Record.
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