Darcy Burner

Darcy Burner

Darcy Gibbons Burner (born November 12, 1970) is a Democrat from Carnation, Washington. She was a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, running in Washington's 8th congressional district in 2006 and 2008, but lost to incumbent Dave Reichert in both elections. She was a candidate in the open primary for the House of Representatives in the newly-redrawn Washington's 1st congressional district in the 2012 elections - losing to Republican John Koster and Democrat Suzan DelBene.

Burner worked for twelve years in high technology including five years at Microsoft as a Marketing Manager, working on .NET. Burner left Microsoft to attend law school at the University of Washington in 2004. She left her law studies in 2005 to enter her first political race against Reichert.

She has served on the boards of a number of local and national organizations including ActBlue, NARAL Pro-Choice America, the Netroots Foundation, the Center for International Policy, the Progressive Ideas Network, and Council for a Livable World's PeacePAC.

From 2009 to 2011 she was the President and Executive Director of ProgressiveCongress.org and the Progressive Congress Action Fund, non-profits associated with the Congressional Progressive Caucus. She was also a principal in the Afghanistan Study Group, whose report on ending the war in Afghanistan was endorsed by both Republicans and Democrats.