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Vivian Song

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Vivian Song
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Candidate, Seattle Public Schools Board of Directors District 5

Prior offices
Seattle Public Schools Board of Directors District 4
Predecessor: Erin Dury

Elections and appointments
Next election

November 4, 2025

Contact

Vivian Song is running for election to the Seattle Public Schools Board of Directors to represent District 5 in Washington. She is on the ballot in the general election on November 4, 2025. She advanced from the primary on August 5, 2025.

Song was a member of the Seattle Public Schools Board of Directors in Washington, representing District 4. She assumed office on November 30, 2021. She left office on February 2, 2024.

Biography

Vivian Song Maritz was born in Ohio.[1]

Elections

2025

See also: Seattle Public Schools, Washington, elections (2025)

General election

The candidate list in this election may not be complete.

General election for Seattle Public Schools Board of Directors District 5

Vivian Song and Janis White are running in the general election for Seattle Public Schools Board of Directors District 5 on November 4, 2025.

Candidate
Image of Vivian Song
Vivian Song (Nonpartisan)
Janis White (Nonpartisan)

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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for Seattle Public Schools Board of Directors District 5

The following candidates ran in the primary for Seattle Public Schools Board of Directors District 5 on August 5, 2025.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Vivian Song
Vivian Song (Nonpartisan)
 
73.5
 
12,366
Janis White (Nonpartisan)
 
15.8
 
2,656
Julissa Sanchez (Nonpartisan)
 
3.5
 
591
Landon Labosky (Nonpartisan)
 
2.7
 
451
Allycea Weil (Nonpartisan)
 
2.4
 
396
Vivian van Gelder (Nonpartisan)
 
2.2
 
369

Total votes: 16,829
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Endorsements

2021

See also: Seattle Public Schools, Washington, elections (2021)

General election

General election for Seattle Public Schools Board of Directors District 4

Vivian Song defeated Laura Marie Rivera in the general election for Seattle Public Schools Board of Directors District 4 on November 2, 2021.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Vivian Song
Vivian Song (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
72.0
 
170,364
Image of Laura Marie Rivera
Laura Marie Rivera (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
27.7
 
65,469
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.4
 
851

Total votes: 236,684
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for Seattle Public Schools Board of Directors District 4

Vivian Song and Laura Marie Rivera defeated incumbent Erin Dury and Herbert Camet Jr. in the primary for Seattle Public Schools Board of Directors District 4 on August 3, 2021.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Vivian Song
Vivian Song (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
59.8
 
18,268
Image of Laura Marie Rivera
Laura Marie Rivera (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
21.4
 
6,534
Image of Erin Dury
Erin Dury (Nonpartisan)
 
10.7
 
3,276
Image of Herbert Camet Jr.
Herbert Camet Jr. (Nonpartisan)
 
7.5
 
2,297
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.6
 
170

Total votes: 30,545
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Endorsements

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Campaign themes

2025

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2021

Candidate Connection

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Vivian is a daughter of immigrants and a proud public school graduate who benefited greatly from special needs services due to her hearing impairment. She is a mom of 4 young children who are current and future Seattle Public School students. Vivian currently serves as a PTSA president, a member of Seattle Public Schools’ Superintendent Parent Advisory Council, and as board director for the Washington State Leadership Board, a nonprofit that serves Washington state’s youth with leadership development opportunities and programs.

Prior to her involvement in education, Vivian worked for 15 years in finance and operations at Google and Goldman Sachs. She received her B.A. in Economics from Harvard University and a M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

  • I have the lived experience as a person of color, an English as a Second Language student, and a special education student (hearing loss) to know the challenges of our marginalized student populations. I seek this position to represent them and to work to ensure all Seattle Public School students have equitable access to an excellent public education.
  • Our $1B budget must reflect our values. I will dive into our capital and operating budgets to ensure that our students and staff are getting the support they need to succeed. I have over 15 years of professional finance and operations experience in organizations at the scale of our district and seek to use these skills to serve our community.
  • We must work collaboratively with our city and state leaders to "build back better." I will advocate fiercely for the resources, policy, and support our students and staff need.
• Establishing mental health as an essential service to re-engage students who are falling behind, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic

• Prioritizing diversity and inclusion, by recruiting and retaining teachers and staff of color, scaling culturally responsive curriculum, and adopting inclusionary practices for our special education students
• Improving transportation for working families by working with local stakeholders on better bus route planning and expansion of free ORCA passes to secondary students

• Close the $70M funding deficit for special education; we must fulfill our moral and constitutional obligation to our special education students

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Footnotes

  1. Ballotpedia's Elections Team, “Email communication with Vivian Song Maritz," July 21, 2021