Luis Saúl Moscoso (born May 13, 1950) is a former Washington State Representative from the 1st Legislative District, Position 2. He is a retired public servant having served 33 years in the public sector. He most recently served as the Director of Government Relations for the Washington Public Employees Association/

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Local 365 in

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where he oversaw and coordinated the WPEA's Legislative-Political program and issues advocacy agendas. Moscoso served three terms as Secretary of the

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. He is President of the Board of the Institute for Washington’s Future and has served on various public and community boards including the Transportation Policy Board (

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), City of Mountlake Terrace Community Policing Advisory Board and the Neutral Zone. He is an organizer and former Executive Committee member of the NAACP-Snohomish County. He organized the Snohomish County Citizens Committee for Human Rights that wrote and promoted a local county ordinance to establish a local Human Rights Commission. Moscoso, a first generation

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, moved from

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in 1976 after receiving his

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in Anthropology from the

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. He later joined

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and organized

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Local 1576 for county bus drivers in 1977, serving four terms as their first President/Business Agent.

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