Scott Rasmussen moved to Spokane with his family in 2019. He is a native of Salt Lake City and a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Scott works professionally as the Director of Democracy Initiatives at Interfaith America where he directs programs to support faith and values based leaders and institutions in strengthening American democracy and a culture of pluralism. Scott served 10 years as an American diplomat with overseas assignments in Eritrea, Poland and Jerusalem. He is also adjunct faculty at Whitworth University, teaching courses on American Foreign Policy and the Politics of Israel and Palestine. Scott is married to Brooke Rasmussen, a marriage and family therapist and they live in Spokane with their eight children.
