 Susannah Malarkey
Chair
Executive Director of The Technology Alliance. Seattle |
 Karen Munro
Vice Chair
Long-time civic and cultural leader and volunteer. Member of Washington Wildlife and Recreation Coalition Board. Past board member of Washington Commission for the Humanities and Federation of State Humanities Councils. Olympia |
 Erich Lear
Treasurer
Dean of the College of Liberal Arts & Professor of Music at Washington State University Pullman. Pullman |
 Kris Molesworth
Executive Officer
Director of Development at the North Cascades Institute and former Executive Director at Northwest Bookfest and the Museum of Northwest Art. Mount Vernon |
 Dick Thompson
Executive Officer
Non-profit and athletics teams consultant; Affiliate Professor at UW Evans School of Public Affairs, Former CEO United Way of King County; former Director OMB, State of Washington. Olympia |
 Liahna Armstrong
Professor of English at Central Washington University. Ellensburg |
 John Baule
Director of the Yakima Valley Museum. Yakima |
 Peter Blomquist
Vice President of Constituency Development at Mercy Corps. Seattle |
 Margaret Blue
Retired Program Chair, M.Ed in Counseling, and Undergraduate Psychology, Department of Education and Psychology, Heritage College. Yakima |
 Gemma Valdez Daggatt
Project Manager & Community Builder. Board Chair, Seattle Chinatown International District Preservation & Development Authority. Board Member: Americans for UNFPA, Wing Luke Asian Museum. Co-Founder, Washington Women for Choice Seattle |
 Diane Douglas
Executive Director of City Club and former Director of Bellevue Art Museum between 1991 and 2001. Current volunteer service includes Voices in Wartime and several advisory boards. She is also a peer review panelist for the U.S. Fulbright Program and on the tenure review committee for Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life. Seattle |
 Wayne Ehlers
Community Volunteer. Former Speaker of the House, former Director of Legislative and Federal Relations for Governor Gardner from 1990-1992. His volunteer service includes tenure as a Western Washington University trustee from 1992-1999, and he currently serves on the Legislative Ethics Board and on the Commission on Judicial Conduct. Seattle |
 AJ Epstein
Principal of Ethereal Mutt, providing production, logistics, marketing, and media for live music and theatrical productions. He is past President of the Board of Annex Theatre, and currently serves as a trustee of The Lark Center for Play Development in New York. Seattle |
 Carver Gayton
Executive Director of the Northwest African American Museum. Former Commissioner of the Washington State Employment Security Department, former Director of Training and Educational Relations at Boeing. His volunteer experience includes President of the University of Washington Alumni Association. Seattle |
 Denise Harnly
Associate Director of Seattle Neighborhood Group. Her volunteer service includes the Central District Development Association Board, former Vice-President of the Friends of the Library. Seattle |
 Lucia Huntington
Retired ESL Professor at Gonzaga University. Spokane |
 Dan Lamberton
Professor of English and Director of the Walla Walla College Humanities Program. Poet and author, Inquiring Mind lecturer for 7 years, Editor for literary history at the Center for Study of the Pacific Northwest. Walla Walla |
 Linda Pier
Retired educator, specializing in foreign language, in the Yakima School District. Community volunteer. Yakima |
 Bridget Piper
VP for Leadership Development at Sterling Savings Bank, former President of the Spokane Symphony and its Endowment Board, the Junior League of Spokane, and the Community Colleges Foundation. Also served as a Washington State Arts Commissioner. Spokane |
 Jane Reich
Volunteer at Market Foundation, Pike Medical Clinic and former Board Chair Fremont Public Association/Solid Ground. Seattle |
 Carla Seaquist
Playwright and essayist (on culture, politics, and the American character for The Christian Science Monitor). Former Equal Opportunity Officer for the City of San Diego and member of the California Governor´s Task Force on Civil Rights, Recipient of NOW´s Susan B. Anthony award. Gig Harbor. |
 Meredith Wagner
Associate Director of the Jefferson County Library, where she has coordinated an Inquiring Mind lecture series for the last 16 years. Instrumental in bringing the Clemente Course in the Humanities to Jefferson County. Port Ludlow
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Jan Walsh
Director of all operations of the Washington State Library. She represents the State Library and all libraries in the state with other state, regional and national agencies and organizations; provides leadership and direction for the development of libraries statewide; develops information policy. Olympia
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 Scott White
Senior Project Manager for King County Department of Executive Services. Volunteer and community activist with several organizations in the Seattle area. Seattle
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 Julie Ziegler
Community Volunteer. Former Grants Manager for Safeco Insurance, Bank of America Foundation, and US Bank. Seattle |
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