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Ellie Fields, Board Chair – Chief Product Officer, Salesloft

Ellie is the Chief Product Officer at Salesloft. Previous...

Dave Goldberg, Vice President at Large – President, Mithun

David Goldberg is President at Mithun, an integrated desi...

Marguerite Kondracke, Vice President at Large – Social Entrepreneur & Retired CEO, America’s Promise

Marguerite Kondracke has had a 40-year career working in ...

Fred Kleisner, Board Treasurer – Independent Director

Fred Kleisner, a four decade plus hotelier/corporate CEO/...

Sara Moorehead, Board Secretary – Community Volunteer & Retired SVP Cooperative Affairs, BECU

Sara retired from BECU in 2019 after six years leading th...

Jason Baumgarten, Recent Past Chair – Partner, Spencer Stuart

Jason leads Spencer Stuart’s practice in the Pacific Nort...

Bisi Akinola, Director & Associate General Counsel, Meta

Bisi currently serves as the Director and Associate Gener...

Skyler Brown, Wealth Management Advisor, Goldman Sachs

Prior to Goldman Sachs, Skyler served as a special forces...

Laury Bryant, Community Volunteer/Activist

Laury Bryant has spent the past twenty plus years in the ...

Laura Clise, CEO, Intentionalist

Laura Clise is founder & CEO of Intentionalist and Senior...

Camille Gibson, CEO, The Real Coconut Co.

Before embarking on her new adventure at The Real Coconut...

Leslie Gordon, Retired IBM Global Executive

Leslie retired from IBM following a 30 plus year career s...

Audrey Haberman, CEO, Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation

Audrey Haberman is the CEO of the Sheri and Les Biller Fa...

Lois Hartman, Community Volunteer

Lois Hartman, the eighth of twelve children, grew up in S...

Chasity Malatesta, Educator, Facilitator & Equity Advocate

Chasity Malatesta is an African-American woman, educator,...

Dr. Dan Meyer, Retired Dentist, Scientist & Educator

Dan Meyer has enjoyed a 40-year career as a dentist, heal...

Ben Nimmergut, Vice President, Boeing

Ben Nimmergut is vice president for Engineering Functions...

James Oppenheimer, Director of Business Development, Columbia Hospitality

James oversees business development for hotels & resorts ...

Sara Otepka, Entrepreneur

Sara is a Founding Partner of Level 5, Co-Founder of Leve...

Ben Packard, Executive Director, EarthLab at the University of Washington

Ben Packard serves as the Harriet Bullitt Endowed Executi...

Nathaniel Pieper, Senior Vice President, Fleet, Finance and Alliances & Treasurer, Alaska Air Group

Nathaniel Pieper is currently Senior Vice President – Fle...

Stacey Sturgess, Senior Vice President and Private Client Manager at Bank of America Private Bank

Stacey Sturgess is a Senior Vice President and Private Cl...

Dr. Pooja Tandon, Pediatrician and Researcher

Dr. Pooja Tandon is a pediatrician and researcher at the ...

Kelvin Washington Jr., Executive Director, MUST

Kelvin has served as the Executive Direct of MUST (Mentor...

David Wu, President & CEO, Special Olympics Washington

David Wu is the President & CEO of Special Olympics Washi...

Board Emeriti

IslandWood Co-Founder

 

Debbi and her husband Paul co-founded IslandWood in 1999, after learning that Washington State mandated environmental education but only half of Puget Sound schoolchildren had access to environmental education programs. She is an active volunteer whose primary philanthropic interests include conservation, improving access to environmental education, and supporting sustainable community development. Debbi and her husband, Paul Brainerd, are also the founders of The Headwaters in Glenorchy, New Zealand, a sustainable tourism and community development project currently slated to open in late 2017. Debbi has served as Board Chair of IslandWood, as well as Board Chair of the Bloedel Reserve, an award-winning public garden on Bainbridge Island, WA. She and Paul were recognized by Cascade Land Conservancy with a Lifetime Achievement Award and received the University of Washington College of Education’s Distinguished Service Award.