Luke Baumgarten on Muck Rack

Luke Baumgarten

(He/Him)
Spokane
As seen in: RANGE Media
Covers:  Interested in anything impacting people in Spokane, WA & the Inland Northwest. Those impacts can be local, state or national. They can be governmental, cultural or otherwise. Also journalism models.
Doesn't Cover: If you're going to pitch me, have an angle relevant to the Inland Northwest or reshaping the journalism industry toward greater equity and/or worker power.
Writer & organizer. @RANGEmedia4all, Spokane Workers Coop, @WorkAtFellow, Treatment, @terrainspokane. Support local news rangemedia.co
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Luke Baumgarten’s Biography

Luke is a journalist, organizer and life-long Spokanite who has spent his career telling stories, building community and working to make the region more just and livable for all of our neighbors.

Seeking a more equitable model of business and a more just life for workers, he founded RANGE, a worker-owned local newsroom, in 2020. In 2021, he co-founded the Spokane Workers Cooperative, a holding company designed to scale cooperative ownership as efficiently as possible.

Prior to that, Luke co-founded the arts nonprofit Terrain (2008) and was a founding board member of Feast World Kitchen (2019). He founded Fellow Coworking in 2013 and helped launch Treatment Creative in 2015.

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