S-3583.1
SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 8014
State of Washington
69th Legislature
2026 Regular Session
By Senators Saldaña, Orwall, Alvarado, Dhingra, Frame, Hasegawa, Lovelett, Nobles, Slatter, Stanford, Trudeau, Valdez, and C. Wilson
Prefiled 12/16/25. Read first time 01/12/26. Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.
TO THE HONORABLE DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AND TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES, IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, AND TO THE UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF STATE, AND TO THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE, AND TO THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE:
We, your Memorialists, the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Washington, in legislative session assembled, respectfully represent and petition as follows:
WHEREAS, Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi was raised from the age of one in Seattle, Washington, where she attended West Seattle High School as well as the Ida B. Wells School for Social Justice, an alternative Seattle Public Schools college preparatory program at the University of Washington campus; and
WHEREAS, Eygi possessed a profound sense of peace and justice which cultivated her enduring personal commitment to social and environmental activism as a tireless community leader who organized peaceful protests including a 2016 mass student walkout against xenophobia and for religious freedom in Seattle, who stood in solidarity with indigenous, displaced, and marginalized communities across the country, including participating in the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, who spent time supporting the elderly and individuals with disabilities, and who worked as a behavioral technician to serve children on the autism spectrum and their families; and