Board of Directors
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Honorary Found Co-Chairs

Daniel J. Evans
Former Washington Governor and U.S. Senator

Mike Lowry (1939—2017)
Former Washington Governor and U.S. Congressman
Board Officers

Hannah Clark, Chair
Director, National Conservation Funding Project

Olgy Diaz, Vice Chair
Director, Government Affairs, Forterra
When she’s not helping electing more women and people of color to public office, you can find Olgy soaking up the sun (for the two months it visits WA) with her Chiweenie Pepita in Tacoma, repotting and propagating houseplants, or hitting a body of water, preferably tropical but with a good sweater a PNW beach or river. Like all Washingtonians, she lives for when the mountain is out.

Lorraine Patterson-Harris, FINANCE CHAIR & TREASURER
Chief Administrative Officer, King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks

David Patton, State Policy Chair
Northwest Director, The Trust for Public Land
When not at work, David enjoys hiking and camping with his wife, Sarah, and two kids, Jane and Sam. He has a goal to visit every National Park with his family. He also enjoys playing, coaching and advocating for organized sports including coaching his 9-year old daughter’s ice hockey team.

Terese (T.C.) Richmond, Board Affairs Chair
She/Her
Partner, Van Ness Feldman
When she is not at work or volunteering, T.C. enjoys kayaking, biking, hiking, and supporting local distilleries and wineries with her family.

Lincoln Bormann, Secretary
Director, San Juan County Land Bank
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Board Directors

Cathy Baker
Director, Federal Government Relations, The Nature Conservancy

Marc Berejka
Director of Government & Community Affairs, REI

Jason Callahan
Director of Government Relations, Washington Forest Protection Association

Tom Bugert
Deputy Chief of Staff, Department of Natural Resources

Bill Chapman
He/Him
Principal, Shepherds Hill, LLC

Dow Constantine
King County Executive, Washington State
A Seattle native, Constantine graduated from West Seattle High School and the University of Washington, where he also earned two post-graduate degrees in law (1989) and urban planning (1992). Today, Constantine lives in the same West Seattle neighborhood where he grew up.
A two-term state representative (elected 1996 and 1998) before being elected to the 34th District’s senate seat in 2000, Constantine was co-chair of the House Judiciary Committee and vice-chair of the Senate Ways & Means Committee.
He was appointed to the King County Council in January 2002, and won election to the office four times—in November of 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2007. Constantine served as County Council Chair in 2009 and led the panel that wrote the 2007 King County budget.
In addition to the Coalition, Constantine is also a current board member of the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation, and was a founding board member of the West Seattle High School Foundation.
Throughout his public service career, Constantine has been an outspoken advocate for environmental protection, public transit, and government reform. As King County Executive, he is working to make King County the best-run government in the nation, and focusing on the great generational challenges of our time: building equity and opportunity, and confronting climate change.

Mary Dodsworth
Director, Parks, Recreation and Community Services, City of Lakewood
Representing the Washington Recreation & Parks Association (WRPA)

Mark Eliasen
Former Vice President – Finance and Treasurer, Alaska Air Group
A certified public accountant, Eliasen earned a bachelor’s degree from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Wash., and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Washington.

Clayton Graham
Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Ephraim Froehlich
Managing Principal, AKWA-DC

Paul Graves
General Counsel, Oak Harbor Freight Lines
Paul is an engaged community member. He maintains an active pro bono legal practice, representing foster youth in legal proceedings. In 2011 he was named the pro bono attorney of the year by the Court Appointed Special Advocate organization, which represents the interest of foster children in court. He served as a board member of both an innovative college-prep non-profit for low income kids, and on one of Washington’s first public charter schools, a high performing school with a computer science focus on Kent’s east hill. He chaired the board of the Washington State Institute for Public Policy (a bipartisan group doing cost-benefit analysis of government programs) and currently serves on the board of HopeLink (a community action network serving homeless and low-income children, families, seniors, and disabled people in East King County) and as one of four members of the 2021 Washington redistricting commission.

Jon Hoekstra
Executive Director, Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust

Andrea Imler
Advocacy Director, Washington Trails Association
While she lives in Seattle, Andrea prefers a tent in the backcountry to her home in the city. In addition to trail running, mountain biking, cross-country skiing and snowshoeing, she loves backpacking with family, friends, and her partner Todd. She loves to explore Washington, visiting much of the Pasayten wilderness, as well as the Olympic Peninsula and Mount Rainier, which she has climbed twice! Andrea continues to revel in Washington’s wild areas, and eventually, she’d like to hike the Pacific Northwest and Pacific Crest trails.

James E King Jr.
He/Him
Interim Executive Director, CD_CPDA

Paul Kundtz
WWRC Board Member
He is also well known in the conservation community as a founder and former director and president of the Bainbridge Island Land Trust, an elected Commissioner of the Bainbridge Island Park and Recreation District and board member of the Seattle Aquarium. He currently serves on the board of the Great Peninsula Conservancy.

Martin LeBlanc
Strategic Leadership Adviser, LBC Action
LeBlanc has helped lead advocacy efforts at the federal and state levels in California, New Mexico, Texas, and Washington. Most recently, LeBlanc served as Director of Innovation at Sixkiller Consulting and as the Senior Vice President for External Affairs at IslandWood, a national leader in the effort to strengthen communities through outdoor engagement. In 2014, he created the No Child Left Inside Alliance, a coalition of nonprofits, businesses, and government agencies that successfully advocated to establish a $2 million program focused on outdoor education and recreation programs. With the support of the Obama Administration, LeBlanc brought together diverse stakeholders to launch Fresh Tracks, a shared leadership experience for young adults from Compton, California and Alaska Native Communities. Fresh Tracks culminated in a December 2016 roundtable on Outdoor, Youth, and Diversity convened in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.
He is also the former National Youth Director for the Sierra Club, where he successfully built bridges to new audiences, including military families and veterans, the Los Angeles Unified School District, the YMCA, and Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
Martin is the founding board member of the Children & Nature Network and the Cofounder of the Outdoor Alliance for Kids (OAK).

Mamie Marcuss
Director of Programs, Challenge Seattle
Marcuss launched her career in public service at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, where she was a senior research analyst for the Economic Research Division. She later served as editor of Communities and Banking, the Boston Fed’s quarterly magazine on regional economic development issues. She holds her Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Dartmouth College and a Master’s in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Marcuss lives with her husband, Aidan, and their son, Luke, in the Montlake neighborhood of Seattle. They enjoy hiking, camping, and snowshoeing in the Cascade and Olympic Mountains and sailing on Lake Union.

John McGlenn
Principal, Tetra Tech
He is currently a Principal with Tetra Tech, a consulting engineering and architectural firm. Prior to entering the engineering field, he served as a line officer in the U.S. Navy.
John’s entire family is devoted to fishing, hunting and conservation. He is a founding board member and past president of the Washington Wildlife and Recreation Coalition and the Washington Wildlife Federation; a former Vice Chairman of the Intermountain West Joint Venture (North American Waterfowl Plan); and has served on the boards of the Izaak Walton League, the Washington Environmental Council, the Wild Salmon Center and Western Rivers Conservancy. He also served 12 years on Washington’s Fish and Wildlife Commission (four as Chairman). John and his wife Ronni reside in Bellevue, WA.

Adrian Miller
Director of Administration and Corporate Affairs, Olympic Resource Management, Pope Resources

Alyssa Moir
She/Her
Partner, K&L Gates
Originally from Minnesota where she paddled, hiked, camped and portaged, and after a collegiate rowing career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a year of working for Outward Bound in East Africa, Alyssa moved to Washington State in 2001 to teach outdoor environmental education and lead wilderness trips. After teaching and directing youth-centered programs for two years, Alyssa attended law school at the University of Washington, while also working for Landesa (formerly the Rural Development Institute).

Charlie Raines
Forest Conservation Director, Forterra

Tom Reeve
He/Him
National Leadership Council Chair, The Trust for Public Land

Lynn Sanborn
Windermere Real Estate
Lynn’s vast professional achievements include being serving as 2021 President of Seattle King County Realtors 7500 members, serving as a Washington State Director since 2015, served as VP of Governmental and Public Affairs in 2019. She also served as the Washington State Realtor Membership Benefits Chair in 2020.
Lynn has been voted a 5-Star real estate agent by Seattle Magazine in 2006-2021 and was voted the Best of Kirkland Real Estate Agent in 2013-2020 and Community Service in 2020.
Lynn has made it her priority to be an advocate for the homeless and she served as VP on the Attain Housing Board of Directors and currently is on their Advisory Board. She is a founding member of The Butterfly Effect Group (a monthly giving group) and served over 7 years on the Windermere Foundation Board, which provides funding to support low-income and homeless families. Lynn received the Seattle King County REALTOR Community Service Award in 2011 and 2018. In 2019 she received the Realtor Excellence Award from Seattle King County Realtors.

Jon Soine
Managing Broker, Windermere Real Estate in Bellingham
Jon’s other civic and community involvement includes the Naval Reserve Officers Association, the Whatcom County Chamber of Commerce, the National Federation of Business, and is an active member of his church.

WENDY TYNER
Development/Publicity Director, Wintergrass Music Festival

TOM VOGL
CEO,The Mountaineers

Fred Wert
Chair, Palouse to Cascade Trail Coalition
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Ex-Officio Directors

Laura Blackmore
Executive Director, Puget Sound Partnership

Megan Duffy
Director, Washington Recreation & Conservation Office

Diana Dupuis
Director, Washington State Parks
Diana is a dedicated parks professional and has served the agency as a region manager, park ranger, LEAN practitioner, area manager and operations manager. Prior to joining Parks, she worked as an adjunct faculty member at Green River Community College in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Criminal Justice. Diana also served on the special operations response team with the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner office.
Diana holds a master’s degree in Anthropology from California State University, Los Angeles and a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University. She grew up in Indiana and Michigan and spent her childhood immersed in the outdoors. Diana enjoys snowshoeing, hiking, running, bird watching and camping with her family.

Hilary Franz
Commissioner of Public Lands
Hilary has committed 20 years of her career to working on environmental, local government, and public policy issues and most recently served as Executive Director of Futurewise, the state’s leading voice for smart, sustainable land use and transportation policies. In that position, Hilary represented local governments, non-profit organizations, and citizen groups on a broad range of land use and environmental law issues. From 2008 to 2011, she served as a Bainbridge Island city councilmember and government leader.
Hilary sat on the Puget Sound Regional Council Growth Management Board, the Puget Sound Regional Council Economic Development District Board, the Puget Sound Salmon Recovery Council, and the Puget Sound Transportation Futures Task Force. She was appointed by Governor Gregoire to Washington State’s Climate Action Team IWG on the State Environmental Policy Act. She has served on numerous boards, including Conservation Northwest, the Washington Environmental Council, the Center for Environmental Law and Policy, and Friends of the Farms.
Hilary has worked across the state on behalf of the farming community protecting farmland and growing the farm economies in Skagit, Pierce, Okanogan, Spokane, Snohomish, Kittitas, Whatcom, King, and Benton counties. She has worked on aquatics lands issues throughout the Puget Sound and in Pacific and Grays Harbor counties – with a focus on protecting the marine economy and environment so communities are stronger and the environment is healthier.
Hilary is a graduate of Smith College and Northeastern University Law School.

Representative Drew MacEwen
Washington State Representative (R-Union)
Drew served in the United States Navy for six years. Serving in the submarine force, Drew graduated from the Navy’s Nuclear Propulsion Program. Drew was stationed at Naval Base Kitsap, where he developed a strong bond with western Washington. He went on to complete undergraduate studies at the State University of New York, earning a Bachelor of Science degree.
Drew is also active in several community organizations, including Rotary, Love, Inc., Mason General Hospital Foundation, Kitsap Medical Society, and is a past president of the Shelton-Mason Chamber of Commerce. Drew is an active member of the St. David’s parish community in Shelton.

Senator Ron Muzzall
Washington State Senate (R-Whidbey Island)
He has served on committees for the Darigold and the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives. He served 15 years on the board of Skagit Farmers Supply, 5 years as chairman. He served 8 years on the corporate board of Land O’Lakes cooperative where he put his expertise to work on governance, board performance, audit and political action committees. He is the managing partner at 3 Sisters Family Farm.
Ron, his wife Shelly and two daughters, Jennifer and Roshel own and operate their family’s grass-fed beef and lamb, barley-fed hogs, and free range eggs and fryers for 3 Sisters Market and other grocery stores on Whidbey Island. A lifelong member of Oak Harbor Lutheran Church he currently serves as council president.

Chris Pettit
Executive Director, Washington State Conservation Commission
Originally from Chicago, Pettit received his undergraduate degrees in political history/economics and social theory from New College of Florida. He has a law degree from the University of Florida, an LLM from the University of Cape Town, and undertook doctoral studies at the University of London.

Senator Christine Rolfes
She/Her
Washington State Senator (D-Bainbridge)
She has a BA in Economics from the University of Virginia and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Washington with a concentration in environmental policy.
Christine has worked for the Kitsap County Department of Community Development as an open space program coordinator and watershed planner, and for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), managing environmental and economic development projects mostly in Russia. As a legislator she has passed laws to restore Puget Sound’s marine ecosystem, prevent oil spills, protect Orca Whales, reduce the use of dangerous chemicals, and promote sustainable forestry practices.
Christine lives in an historic farmhouse on Bainbridge Island with her husband Leonard, where they raised their two daughters and care for a small flock of hens. She is an avid backpacker, paddler, and hiker and a fierce lover of all wildlife.

Kelly Susewind
Director, Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife

Representative Steve Tharinger
Washington State House (D-Port Townsend)
He is a member of the Sequim Sunrise Rotary and a state-certified, volunteer mediator with the Peninsula Dispute Resolution Center. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Colorado College.
As chair of the House Capital Budget Committee, he helps write the state’s capital investment budget, which builds schools, colleges, parks and other state facilities plus making investments in our natural resources.
His community involvement includes past service on dozens of boards and commissions, including the Clallam County Economic Development Council, the state insurance commissioner’s Health Care Reform Revitalization Committee, the Clallam County Board of Health and the Dungeness River Management Team.
At the state level, Steve served on Salmon Recovery Funding Board from 2002 to 2010 and as chair from 2008-10.
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Committees
Hannah Clark, Chair
Lincoln Bormann, Secretary
Lorraine Patterson-Harris, Treasurer and Finance & Administration Chair
Elle Chapman, Counsel
Marc Berejka
Paul Kundtz
Adrian Miller
David Patton, State Policy Chair
Tom Reeve, Philanthropy Chair
T.C. Richmond, Board Affairs Chair
Jon Soine
David Patton, Chair
Justin Allegro
Angus Brodie (alternate)
Jason Callahan (alternate)
Bill Chapman
Hannah Clark
Bill Clarke
Kaleen Cottingham
Olgy Diaz, Vice Chair
Kate Delavan (alternate)
Mary Dodsworth
Clayton Graham
Paul Graves
Don Gourlie (alternate)
Joe Hyer
Andrea Imler
Doug Levy
John McGlenn
Joe Mentor
Brock Millern
Adrian Miller
Matt Ojala
Jeff Parsons (alternate)
Charlie Raines
Tom Reeve
Paul Simmons
Carol Smith
Fred Wert
Cynthia Wilkerson
Karen Daubert, Chair
Ephraim Froehlich
Mamie Marcuss
Adrian Miller
Tom Reeve
Jon Soine
Wendy Tyner
Lorraine Patterson-Harris, Chair
Mark Eliasen
Adrian Miller
Wendy Tyner
Fred Wert
T.C. Richmond, Chair
Marc Berejka
Bill Chapman
Olgy Diaz
Clayton Graham
Martin LeBlanc
John McGlenn
Lorraine Patterson