jess57grant@gmail.com
From:jess57grant@gmail.com
To:‘Rick Fellows’,pinbalwyz@yahoo.com,dana98501@gmail.com
Sun, Apr 19, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Gentlemen,
Here’s my investigative article about MII. I hope it leads towards some form of belated justice.
Thank you each for all the work you’ve done on behalf of free speech and social justice.
If there are any factual errors, please let me know so I can edit accordingly.
With deep respect,
Jess Grant
A Cautionary Tale from Olympia, Washington
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Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for moreThe Rise and Fall of Media Island InternationalA Cautionary Tale from Olympia, WashingtonJESS GRANTAPR 19  Media Island International in downtown Olympia, WAThis is a story about the political Left eating its own. About the circular firing squad of identity politics. The story of how an intersectional approach to organization-building promotes the worst players while destroying the hard work of well-meaning activists. This is the saga of Media Island International.Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.SubscribedThe city of Olympia, WA, is a well-known hotbed of radical politics. Once a quiet port town at the southern tip of the Puget Sound, known primarily for its logging industry and as home to Washington’s state capital, Olympia got a serious makeover in 1971 with the opening of The Evergreen State College.Soon Olympia was home to a classic Town and Gown split. This relatively conservative municipality, composed of buttoned-down politicians plus logging and farming families, was now home to thousands of itinerant college students. The experimental nature of the college sharpened this division, drawing counter-cultural students seeking new ways of learning.Enter Media Island International (MII), a nonprofit corporation dedicated to the promotion of progressive ideals. A group of local activists drew up the articles of incorporation in 1990 and enumerated these goals:· To undertake public interest projects· To operate a publicly accessible library· To provide publication and media production capabilities to groups educating the public about underrepresented issues· To network among other public benefit groups· To sponsor and conduct public eventsOver the next 28 years, MII would accomplish many things, only to be split apart by infighting that led to a hostile takeover in 2018. Once a busy hive of diverse activities serving a broad swath of community groups and issues, the organization now sits dormant, its doors locked, run by an individual with a narrow political agenda and questionable financial practices.I lived in Olympia from 1994-98, where I earned an MPA from Evergreen and organized for the IWW union. I was a contributor to a local paper called Works in Progress, one of the many groups working out of MII. Yet despite my immersion in that radical culture, I never visited Media Island or knew any of its principal actors. It was years later when I heard rumors that something strange had gone down there; this article is the result of my finally asking “what happened?” Jimmy MatesonJimmy Mateson was a driving force behind the formation of MII. After receiving their provisional license from the state to begin operations, MII opened their doors for business in 1991, operating out of Jimmy’s house on Olympia’s Westside. The following year they moved to an office on Capitol Way, where their activities picked up as the word got around.In 1997, an old Leftist named Gene Cade donated his home near the center of town to MII. This gift kicked off a flurry of activity as the group spent a couple years renovating the house for occupation. According to long-time volunteer and board member Rick Fellows, Mateson seemed to drag his feet. “We weren’t able to move into the building until Jimmy left town.”In 2000 – finally established in the newly refurbished house, and with founder and board chair Mateson now relocated to Hawaii – MII entered its golden years. Fellows, a backbone of the group for 17 years, remembers those days fondly. “Media Island was open to all. We had a sandwich board out every day on the sidewalk that said we were open.”“We had status with the state as a public library space, so we felt obliged to keep it open. We curated books, magazines and videos about a wide range of under-reported subjects; radioactive waste, Guatemala, the CIA, right-wing networks. Rachel Corrie came through, Veterans for Peace, Food Not Bombs.”The building also functioned as a meeting space. “People could come in and read magazines or view videos. We gave free copying and network printing for 17 years, kept laser printers stocked with toner and paper. We had a kitchen and the downstairs to use as meeting spaces. We had open weekly meetings for years where people could come and make proposals or raise concerns.” Rick FellowsUnfortunately, this made MII a lightning rod for conflict. “There was so much good stuff that happened,” Fellows recalls. “Yet the things that stand out are the interpersonal conflicts. One incident in 2010 was very traumatizing. I support dignity for transgender people, but a group of folks were coming in and demanding that this be a safe space where people can yell at you if you misgender somebody.”“It felt like they were trying to drive everybody out that wasn’t all about pronouns. As soon as somebody came through the door, they’d be pressed on their pronouns, and there was a lot of scowling and demands that people go through anti-oppression workshops. People would not feel welcome because they were lording it over the space. In the end they didn’t get their way.”Fellows is understandably bitter about what happened to MII later, between 2016-2018. “It was a privatization, a theft from the community. It’s a long-valued resource that’s gone dark. Everybody was turned away. Nobody’s gotten through the door in eight years, and no one can tell me if there’s still books in there or if they’ve still got radio transmitters and PA systems.”So, what happened? According to former MII caretaker and volunteer Bruce Wilkinson, “We had a low power FM station, and the new on-site caretaker was running it by himself. I came back to MII in January 2015 and started to build the station back up, because I thought that was the most dynamic program. By June I’d built the station crew back up to a dozen volunteers.” Bruce Wilkinson“We’d gotten three grants for over $20,000, and that’s when Shawna Hawk showed up. She was going to Evergreen and was interested in being a DJ. She was a responsible person, so at the time it was great having her. I recruited her to be involved in the group on a deeper level, and she was amenable to that.”“I felt the station could keep MII running. Our reach on the airwaves was low, but we were streaming online by this point. Podcasting was taking off, and we had a recording studio. We took the grant money and bought some new equipment with it. Then (board president) Jimmy Mateson came to town for the first time in 15 years.”“Then we got a big surprise. Jimmy hadn’t filed our 990 forms for three years and we were notified that we’d lost our nonprofit status. Though we eventually got it back, I was horrified because we were also the fiscal sponsors for other projects. So, I wanted to add two new members to the board for accountability: a friend of mine, along with Shawna Hawk.”“Instead of adopting my idea for two new board members, Jimmy and the board kicked me out of the organization, out of the spokes-council, and out of my job as program manager. Though Shawna wasn’t elected to the board, she was promoted to my old job as station manager. She didn’t have great politics, but she cared about the station and she seemed responsible.”“But Shawna had no technical abilities, no computer skills. She was a good DJ, good at interviewing people, but needed other people for the technology. Soon the collective had drifted down to nothing, just Shawna and the caretaker. Next thing you know, Jimmy made Shawna the caretaker and put her on the board. They chased out the old caretaker (Dana Walker).” Shawna HawkRick Fellows remembers it similarly. “Shawna was brought in as a volunteer after getting expelled from KAOS (the Evergreen State College station). The people at the radio station were demanding that the whole house become part of the radio station. To resolve the disputes between the radio station and the board, they wanted to put Shawna on the board of directors.”“Shawna seemed friendly, talking about how much she liked what MII does. We had some concerns about her being kicked out of KAOS, but we’d been saying for years how we wanted people of color and women on the board, so here she is and the radio station’s demanding it. But as soon as she got on the board, she started saying that people couldn’t use the space.”“I proposed we let a homeless group use a small office for outreach. But Shawna said “no,” because “white men don’t understand what it’s like to be a black woman in this space.” And that was always the answer. She refused Food Not Bombs, who we had hosted for years. Since we operated by consensus, she blocked all proposals. And Jimmy Mateson took her side.”“When it first went down, I tried to rally for what I thought was being lost to the community, but people were attacking me, so I stepped back. I had run the fiscal sponsorship program, paid the bills, fixed broken pipes, rewired the house – all as a volunteer. And I didn’t get any thanks from Shawna for that. Out of 17 years of volunteering there were five months I got a $200 stipend.”It got worse. The shift in power was finalized at a board meeting on October 18th, 2018. By now Shawna was living in the house as the on-site caretaker, and was sitting on the board with Mateson, Fellows and Tom Nogler (now passed away). Mateson and Hawk made a motion to remove Fellows and Nogler from the board; Fellows and Nogler of course voted no.Mateson fell back on a provision in the group’s bylaws that gave him an extra vote in the case of a tie. He used this second vote to pass the motion and remove Fellows and Nogler from the board. They received no thanks for their years of hard work, no gold watch for exemplary service. Today, Mateson rues the day and regrets the loss of friends, saying he was torn between conflicting priorities and did what he thought was right for the group at the time.Years later, Fellows is still licking his wounds. “I’ve never put in that much time on any project. I was struck by how many people in the community came up to me during that time and apologized for not daring to speak up. There was a lot of fear of being labeled a racist. I was being called a racist, yet I had worked for black and indigenous-led projects my entire life. People knew it was unfair.”Though Wilkinson and Fellows chose to walk away, not everybody was so equanimous. MII’s former caretaker and radio tech Dana Walker complained loudly about his ouster by Hawk and Mateson via his newsletter The Thunderbolt, and he was backed up by local blogger John Smith of Amicus Curia.1 The two of them turned up the heat, much to Hawk’s dismay.Shawna Hawk, not content with merely evicting Walker from the MII house, had a lawyer send him a notice to “cease and desist all harassing, threatening, and defamatory conduct.” To which he responded, “I stand by my factual reporting, my opinions are clearly identified as such, and my editorial decisions are not going to be determined by threats from Shawna Hawk or your legal firm.” Dana WalkerWhen her letter had no effect, she filed a petition for a Protection Order against Walker. She sought protection from his “harassment” with this:“He has insited (sic) actions of others in his writings toward me…He began to target me with his aggression by posturing and giving threatening looks and gesters (sic). This would also accompany the constent (sic) writing about me in his weekly newsletter and he had a couple of his friends write things on social media and send nots (sic) and messages to the work facility.” Shawna Hawk in court seeking a protection order from Dana WalkerEventually Hawk had her day in court. When she complained that John Smith was taking photos, the judge said,” This is a courtroom. A courtroom is one of the most public venues in existence. If the press wants to come and record what’s going on and broadcast that later, we consider that to be a good thing.”Witness EV Webb had this to say about Walker. “Dana can’t stand the organizational transformation that includes anti-racism and dismantling patriarchy at MII. His behavior reminds me of the toxic abusive manipulative men who won’t lay a hand on the women they’re abusing but will punch a wall to let her know he wants to hurt her. Subtle threats hidden behind vaguely progressive language. White supremacy and patriarchy right there.”Witness Lisa Ganser also framed the issue as one of dismantling racism. “I got to know Shawna through her work with Women of Color in Leadership and I offered to come in and support her leadership, which means raking leaves or whatever it is that Shawna would want me to do. Because I appreciated that the organization was shifting from this white boy club to women of color actually in leadership. And I’m seeing all this pushback from the white men.” Lisa Ganser, a witness for ShawnaShawna had the last word. “This situation is extremely disturbing, unsettling, painful, trying to do the work of centering women, particularly women of color and other marginalized groups…I was a foster kid, I was abused as a kid, I had domestic violence in my background. They can have their paper but to have them keep my name out of their paper is what I need and what I ask.”After weighing the testimony, the judge dismissed Hawk’s petition. “I think of all the people who have been before me in cases like this, as people working in the media, you would understand the frightful prospect of a court issuing an order telling someone to stop saying something.”“Other people may have opinions about how you manage the organization, and they may vigorously disagree with you in the public forum. But that is one of the aspects of a robust public debate on a matter of public importance, and it can be uncomfortable to participate in. I have no choice but to deny the request for an anti-harassment order.” Commissioner Paul Wohl denied Shawna’s petition for a protection orderBut Hawk wasn’t done with Dana Walker. Next, she went after his sole means of earning a living. He sold copies of Real Change (a homeless advocacy paper) in front of the Eastside Olympia Food Coop, and she petitioned the Coop to remove him from his spot in front of the store. Despite being exonerated on charges of harassment by a court of law, Walker received this missive from the Coop’s membership committee.“As you’ll surely agree, our work as white people is to dismantle white supremacy. Yet our solidarity does not always look like high-profile social activism, political analysis, nor feel good inspirational treatises of allyship. It can also look like a decision to exercise restraint and swallow our pride, rather than inflict additional hardship onto a marginalized person.”“Whilst the court ruled that your speech did not constitute the legal definition of harassment, this does not remove you from the consequences of that speech. In order for the co-op to consider you in alignment with our value of Anti-Oppression and continue to provide endorsement of your tabling activities, we ask you to demonstrate accountability for the role you’ve played in the tremendous fear Shawna expressed as a Black Woman.”“This occurred whilst Black Women professors at Evergreen are being threatened with death, and another Black Woman is found tortured, and whilst Nazis are rallying openly at the college. We’ve collaborated with our Anti-Oppression Team and our Conflict Resolution Team to craft the attached set of Behavioral Agreements. You’ll be required to complete these steps before your Tabling Application can be reviewed in the future.” The Eastside Olympia Food Coop where Dana Walker sold the Real Change newspaperThe effect on Walker was catastrophic. Hawk made his private phone number available to the public and encouraged people to harass him. She called his employer Real Change in Seattle in a failed effort to have him fired. She succeeded in having the Food Coop ban him from their property, which contributed to his subsequent homelessness. At age 60, and with a felony marijuana conviction, he had difficulty finding work.Meanwhile, back at Media Island, Shawna was putting the finishing touches on her coup d’etat. Her long-time champion, founder Jimmy Mateson, was ready to leave the group but wanted to ensure that MII would be in good hands. Though he had supported Shawna in court and through the many organizational changes, he wanted some balance on the board of directors. With Fellows and Nogler gone, that meant finding two more members.He and Shawna found two willing volunteers. They were duly sworn in and Mateson felt confident enough to resign as president, fulfilling an agreement he’d made with Shawna about the conditions of his departure. Yet within a couple months both new members resigned, leaving Hawk entirely in charge, the sole “registered agent” of Media Island. Mateson was heartbroken and felt betrayed by her. Shawna HawkEight years later, Hawk remains the sole registered agent of MII, despite by-laws that require the board of directors to have three members. She still lives in the house, the doors locked and the windows blacked out with posters, expanding her nonprofit domain with the creation of two more organizations, both co-located at the MII address. So how did local activists frame Hawk’s takeover? Here’s Lisa Ganser’s take in Poor Magazine, 11/25/18:“Shawna’s work and leadership…(are) bringing the organization alive. But this feels threatening to white men who cling to their positions of power over the organization…This is an opportunity to dismantle patriarchy and white supremacy. Shawna sees and feels a sense of urgency for white people to go deep with The Work and turn over power, unhoard the resources. This can serve as an example of Reparations, of transformative racial justice.”Another of Shawna’s allies, George Collins, wrote this in Ungagged, 4/27/19. “Media Island operated under the control of a board of mostly white men…with this dude Rick Fellows at the helm. Through a series of scandals involving infighting…the old boys of the board faded away. Hawk stepped up to take over the space…and shifted the focus to its current mission: to provide a welcoming space for women and people of color.”“When a black woman assumed control of his little boys-only hideout, Ricky boy blows an artery…At the heart of all this is the topic of reparations, or compensation, for the wealth stolen from slave families during the slave trade. Restoring the wealth of people of color is necessary for a multiracial society to leap forward into socialist organization.’” 2 “George Collins,” the nom de plume of Collin ParkerHere’s another whitewash of Shawna’s work by Heather Leigh Dyson from Thurston Talk. “Media Island International is a black-owned and black-run cultural center that was founded around 30 years ago. The initial focus was environmental justice but has transitioned over the years to social justice issues. Shawna propelled race and gender issues when she started there.”“After earning her master’s in Leadership & Education, Bicultural Development, and Social & Human Services from Pacific Oaks College, she decided to return to TESC to earn her second bachelor’s degree with a focus on Cultural Studies and Communications.”Privacy laws prevent journalists and hiring officers from verifying educational claims like these. Pacific Oaks College offers master’s degrees online, but nothing called “Leadership & Education, Bicultural Development and Social & Human Services.” Their records department refused to confirm Hawk’s matriculation. It’s hard not to doubt such dubious educational claims in light of Hawk’s grade-school-level grammar and spelling (see court docs above).This writer tried to talk with Shawna Hawk over several months. She never returned my many calls or emails, despite my offer to let her “tell her side of the story.” I even went to the front door at MII and rang the bell; she answered via intercom but refused to talk with me or answer the door. If this account feels one-sided, it’s not for lack of trying on my part.Since seizing control of MII in 2018, Hawk has continued to expand her nonprofit realm by founding (or co-founding) two more 501(c)(3) organizations, both of them working out of the MII building. The Women of Color in Leadership Movement (WOCILM) was formed on April 10, 2017, and Shawna serves as the sole governor of the corporation.“The Women of Color in Leadership Movement is a group that is being cultivated as a safe space for women of color to discuss issues, events, and experiences that uniquely affect us. Spiritual empowerment and finding and using our voices are not always possible in male/white or white passing spaces. We also talk about issues such as colorism within our communities.”Between 2017 and 2023, The WOCILM received over $44,000 in grants from Media Island International. Their programming is thin; they’ve sponsored just four speaking events over a six-year span. More recently they co-hosted a Juneteenth celebration in collaboration with the City of Olympia.In May of 2018, a year after the founding of the WOCILM, Shawna’s son Javoen Byrd founded The Hawk Foundation for Research and Education in African Culture (HFREAC). The Hawk Foundation also operates out of MII’s building. Media Island’s average annual revenue is $106,000 (2017-23); by comparison, the HFREAC averaged $378,000 in annual revenues (2021-24), and earned an impressive $620,000 in 2024 (the last year reported). Javoen Byrd, Shawna Hawk’s sonIn 2022, The Hawk Foundation paid $45,000 in rent and utilities (presumably to MII, their “landlord”). In 2024, they spent nearly $268,000 on “Scholarships.” Who are the recipients? Also in 2024, someone (presumably Javoen) earned $53,279 in salary. That same year they spent $93,255 on travel, meetings and conferences. Which is curious, considering their programming happens in and around Olympia.Shawna has served on the board of the Hawk Foundation, as has George Collins (the “journalist” who wrote in such glowing terms about MII in Ungagged). And why is it called the Hawk Foundation, if its founder’s name is Byrd? Presumably in honor of Byrd’s mother or, just as likely, in recognition of the control she exerts over the organization. Nowhere on their websites or in the media do they ever mention their filial connection.In fact, it seems their relationship is deliberately hidden from public view. In another fawning article by George Collins, published in the South Seattle Emerald, he quotes Shawna as she describes how MII helped Byrd achieve nonprofit status.“Javoen was brought to Media Island as a community member who had an amazing idea to create an organization that focuses on African studies and culture,’ said Shawna Hawk, Media Island’s main organizer. ‘Javoen and his organization are an example of the kind of opportunities that we want to offer…especially on issues of race, power and privilege.’”Shawna has ingratiated herself with the city’s powers-that-be. The WOCILM collaborates with the city on Juneteenth celebrations, which take place in a small park across the street from MII on Adams Street. The park is named after 19th century African American businesswoman Rebecca Howard, and Hawk sits on a steering committee overseeing the site’s redevelopment.When I asked someone in the Parks Department about Hawk’s role on the committee, she was reluctant to comment. “I want to let her tell you in her own words. I wouldn’t want to get it wrong.” City bureaucrats have learned to tread softly around Shawna.What does the future hold for Media Island? Shawna and Javoen now control a valuable set of assets. With total revenues from their nonprofits approaching $1 million annually, the future looks bright. The MII house is assessed by Thurston County at $473,100, and while she can’t sell the house and pocket the money outright, it would be easy for her to retain control of the assets.Article VI of the Media Island by-laws stipulate that, “In the event of dissolution of the Corporation, the net assets are to be distributed as follows: to an organization , or organizations of similar purposes, as determined by the Board of Directors, which has established its tax-exempt status under the 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.” That is, an organization like The Women of Color in Leadership Movement or the Hawk Foundation.What do we know about Shawna Hawk’s life before she arrived in Olympia? Very little. Born in 1968, Shawna had three children with a soldier named Anthony Byrd (Javoen and two twin sisters, Tanya and Latrice). Hawk and Byrd divorced and, in 2001, she filed for a protection order from him, alleging assault. She raised her children in Tacoma as a single mother, living off a teacher’s salary and child support. That’s no small feat and worthy of respect.I’ve tried to let this story tell itself, using source materials and interview transcripts, with little editorializing. Allow me now to summarize what I see.Media Island International spent 28 years providing vital resources to Olympia’s progressive movements: meeting rooms, a library, printing supplies, a radio station and event production. Despite some rough spots and internal quarreling, they kept the doors open and the lights on, a welcoming space for a broad diversity of groups with a variety of agendas.In 2016 Shawna Hawk arrived and volunteered to do a radio show on their low-power FM station. As one of the few (but not the only) black woman to volunteer, she was shown great deference out of a sincere desire to diversify the group. Through a process of attrition and well-intentioned personnel shuffles, Shawna rose through the ranks, eventually securing herself the jobs of on-site caretaker, radio station manager and Board member.Because the Board worked on a consensus model, Shawna was able to jettison most of the program suggestions by vetoing proposals she didn’t like. She went after those who objected to her power play, working with group founder Jimmy Mateson to remove two long-time volunteers from the Board. When Mateson and two new board members resigned, Shawna became the group’s sole board member and agent.Much of the Left rallied to her support, and critics were afraid to speak up for fear of being labeled racist. She waged a vindictive campaign against her most vocal critic, attacking his sole source of income and contributing to his homelessness. What was once a thriving hub of Olympia’s Left community has become her personal playground. The door stays locked, the windows are blacked out, and the programming’s been reduced to a trickle of events.Hawk has leveraged her position in the community to expand her financial reach, founding or co-founding two new nonprofits operating out of the same location. The groups currently function with little public scrutiny, and she controls them by appointing friends and family to their boards. She justifies all this with the rhetoric of reparations and anti-racism, but an objective observer can’t help but notice the potential for self-enrichment that exists.The story raises a familiar theme. What happens when people belonging to “marginalized groups” are called out for unscrupulous behavior? Do they get a free pass by virtue of their marginalization? Do people with more social privilege have a right to raise such issues, or will they be ostracized for speaking up? Why did no one have the courage to come to Rick Fellows’ or Dana Walker’s defense, despite the unfairness of the campaign against them?(In an interesting corollary, a similar story was playing out at The Evergreen State College during this time. The “Day of Absence” at Evergreen was a long-standing spring-quarter event that featured minority students and faculty meeting off-campus to discuss race and equity. In 2017, the event was reversed, asking white participants to stay off-campus. This sparked controversy, a student uprising and the resignation of Professor Bret Weinstein. Hawk and the Food Coop allude to these events here.) 3My goal is to restore accountability to an organization that has operated without oversight for too long. I encourage the Secretary of State’s Office and the Department of Revenue to launch an investigation into Media Island’s financial and legal status. For starters, they are out of compliance with their own by-laws, which require three members on the Board of Directors.The state should audit the three groups’ finances to ensure that public money isn’t lining the pockets of Hawk, Byrd and Co. This reporter has no subpoena power and limited research skills; I can only ask questions and try to point regulators in the right direction. In an era when unprecedented fraud is making national headline news, it makes sense to dig a little deeper.Justice is long overdue at Media Island International.RESOURCES:1. Amicus Curia, John Smith’s blog with extensive coverage of this issue.http://amicuscuria.com/wordpress/media-island-meltdown-abus/2. George Collins’ (nee Collin Parker) article about Media Island.https://leftungagged.org/2019/04/27/media-island-reparations-and-the-racism-of-the-old-white-guard/3. Benjamin Boyce’s documentary “Let It All Hang Out: The Evergreen Story”https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRdayXEOwuMG9DG66Bvx6YbUnhw-buS5K&si=QtA8IDDIDsixiinFCourtroom photo credits: John SmithThanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.Subscribed SHARE LIKECOMMENTRESTACK © 2026 Jess Grant548 Market Street PMB 72296, San Francisco, CA 94104 Unsubscribe  |
