Board of Directors & Staff
Board Officers
Grace Nordhoff
President
Community Volunteer
Irene Yamamoto
Treasurer
Community Volunteer
Patricia Walker
Vice President
Community Volunteer
Stephanie Axelrod
Secretary
Community Volunteer
Ross C. Baker
Immediate Past President
Public Policy Dir., Virginia Mason Medical Center
Board of Directors
Susan Adkins
Community Volunteer
Morgan Collins
Senior Treasury Analyst
Starbucks
Ted Collins
Counsel, Perkins Coie LLP
Adjunct Professor of Law, Seattle University Law School
Patricia L. Dawson, MD
Medical Director, Healthcare Equity
UW Medicine
Sue Donaldson
Community Volunteer
Michael Ellsworth
Founder/Chief Creative Officer
Civilization
Davis B. Fox
President & Principal Consultant
DB Fox Consulting, Inc.
Sibyl Frankenburg
Pacific Lutheran University
Sharon Hammel
Community Volunteer
Judy Kelley
VP Treasury Relationship Manager
Union Bank
Lori Kilberg
Partner
Hartman Simons & Wood LLP
Sarah Kohut
VP Mortgage Lending
Guaranteed Rate
Carla Lewis
Community Volunteer
Ellen Look
Community Volunteer
Mary Mara
Dir. of Library & Learning Resource Center
City University of Seattle
Ruth Massinga
Community Volunteer
Robin Mendelson
GM, US Media Categories
Amazon.com
Tyler Preston Mickey
Moss Adams
Nick Momyer
Dir. Investment Management
Threshold Group
Lynn Pigott Mowe
Community Volunteer
Tuan Ngo
DLA Piper
Susan Potts
Community Volunteer
Anne Repass
Community Volunteer
Deborah Rosen
Educator and Community Volunteer
Lori Scott
Senior Manager
Bader Martin, PS
Annie Searle
Principal
ASA Annie Searle & Associates
Claudia Skelton
Community Volunteer
Bill Stafford
Senior Counselor
Nyhus Communications, LLC
Neal Sullins
Community Volunteer
Ina Goodwin Tateuchi
Trustee
Tateuchi Foundation
Ex-Officio
Marcellus Turner
Chief Librarian & Executive Director
Ron Chew
Trustee, The Seattle Public Library
Steve Griggs
President, Friends of the Library
Emeritus Board
Patricia Akiyama
Gilbert W. Anderson
Ruthanna “Fam” Bayless
Marcella Benditt
Greg Berkman
John S. Calhoun
Ron Chew
Sue Coliton
Terry Collings
David R. Davis, M.D.
Jack Faris
Anne V. Farrell
Jodi Green
Suzanne Hittman
Maria L. Koh
Linda Larson
Eric Liu
Gordon McHenry, Jr.
David McShea
Matthew G. Medlin
Glenna Olson
Chuck Riley
Ira Rubinstein
Ryan Sawyer
Peter Steinbrueck
Dan Sudit
David Williams
Steve Wolf
Foundation Staff
Jonna Ward
Chief Executive Officer
Jeff Guddat
Chief Financial Officer
Brian Lawrence
Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives & Advancement
Jennifer Shin
Director of Development
Jamie Anderson
Executive Assistant/Office Manager
Elizabeth Carpenter
Donor Relations Specialist
Katie Rosapepe
Database Administrator
Kerri Martinez
Events & Development Manager
Stephanie Koura
Communications Manager