Meet the Team

Meet the team responsible for managing the coalition. 

Sean Arent

COALITION COORDINATOR

Sean grew up in Roy, Washington, near Joint Base Lewis-McChord. A lifelong activist and organizer, he graduated from the University of Washington Tacoma with a bachelor’s degree in Politics & Philosophy with a minor in Human Rights. He is an avid outdoorsman who is passionate about ecological restoration, farming, and working-class struggle. He has worked for three year as the Nuclear Weapons Abolition Program Manager for the Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility, working to build the coalition and move members of Congress to take action on nuclear weapons. He has been to Hanford, the gates of the Bangor Nuclear Weapons Base, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Hapcheon to learn more about nuclear weapons from activists and impacted communities.

You can reach Sean at sean@wpsr.org

NWANW’s Steering Committee

NWANW’s Steering Committee is made up of volunteers activists that advise and help carry out the priorities of the coalition. Elected in April 2025, they are serving one-year terms.

Goo Lee

Goo Lee is one of the co-coordinators of Korea Peace Now Grassroots Network in the Pacific Northwest and a member of the Seattle-Evergreen Progressive Korean coalition. His work against the release of radioactive water from the Fukishima disaster in Japan and to spread awareness of the Korean atomic bomb victims brought him to work with the NWANW coalition.

Robin Narruhn

Robin Narruhn is a professor of nursing at Seattle U, WPSR anti-nuke activist, and member of the Marshallese community. Her commitment to her community and health drives her passion for opposing nuclear weapons.

Vaughn Johnson

Vaughn Johnson is a community organizer, inspired to work for the abolition of nuclear weapons after visiting the Nevada testing site.

Andrew Woo

Andrew is a student at the University of Washington and a founding member of Student for Nuclear Justice (SNJ).

Denny Duffel

Deacon Denny Duffel is the director of Pax Christi Northwest. He has firmly committed to the church’s social teachings on nuclear weapons, and has personally risked arrest and imprisonment by protesting nuclear weapons at the Bangor Base in Kitsap County, Washington.