Board of Directors
Todd Achilles
Todd is the managing member of Balius Ventures LLC, an investment and consulting firm focused on early stage companies in the wireless industry. He has spent his career in the telecommunications sector including positions with HTC and T-Mobile. Todd received his BA from Claremont McKenna College and MBA and MAIS from the University of Washington. A former Army tank officer, Todd holds two US patents, is an American Marshall Memorial Fellow and serves on the board of City Year Seattle/King County, a national service organization for 17-24 year olds.
Howard Behar
Howard has been a director of Starbucks since January 1996. Mr. Behar served as the Starbuck’s president, North America from September 2001 through December 2002. Prior to serving in that capacity, Mr. Behar served as president of Starbucks Coffee International, Inc. from June 1994 until his retirement in late 1999. Mr. Behar also serves on the board of directors of The Gap, Inc., Shurgard Storage Centers, Inc, Anna's Linens and Jewish Family Service of Seattle.
Erica Hallock
Erica serves as the President and CEO for the United Ways of Washington. She also is a Public Member on the Washington State Nursing Commission, appointed by Governor Christine Gregoire in 2006. Erica sits on the board of the Children's Campaign Fund. Previously she worked at the California State Association of Counties, focusing on health and human services. She has a BA in Political Science from the University of California at Riverside and a Master of Public Policy and Administration from California State University Sacramento.
Rachel Berkson
Rachel is the Executive Director of the SEIU Washington State Council where her primary focus is on coordinating the union’s political and legislative programs. Prior to joining SEIU, Rachel spent six years as lead organizer with the Working Families Party, a labor and community-based grassroots political party in New York State. In addition, she was sent to the Northwest Region by the Working Families Party to explore the possibility of establishing chapters in Washington and Oregon. She is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Connecticut College.
Michael Brown
Michael Brown is the Vice President of Community Leadership at The Seattle Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation, Michael served as a legislative aide to City of Seattle Councilmember Richard McIver from 1997-2000. He received his Master of Public Administration from the University of Washington. Michael is an American Marshall Memorial Fellow, a graduate of Leadership Tomorrow, is past Chair of the Board of the Crisis Clinic and currently serves on the boards of AIDS Housing of Washington, Impact Capital and the Advisory Board for United Way's Seattle Community Council.
Greg Devereux
Greg Devereux is Executive Director of the Washington Federation of State Employees, AFSCME Council 28, and International Vice President of AFSCME, He began his labor relations career as a Labor Relations Field Examiner with the State of Illinois Office of Collective Bargaining, and later joined AFSCME's Public Policy Department as Coordinator of Health Policy. Greg became Deputy Director of WFSE in 1993, and Executive Director in 1994.
Jon Gould
Jon Gould is the Deputy Director of the Children's Alliance. Prior to becoming Deputy Director, Jon served as the organization's Community Action Director. Jon has a long history of community involvement in housing, human service, children and other issues. He has held board leadership positions in several housing, human service, and political action organizations in Washington. Jon has a bachelor degree from Cornell University and earned a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Washington's Evans School.
Lily Kahng
Lily is an associate professor at Seattle University Law School and served as a member of the Washington State Tax Structure Study Committee. Prior to joining the SU faculty, Professor Kahng was an associate professor of law at Cornell Law School and an attorney advisor in the Office of Tax Legislative Counsel in the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
Aaron Katz
Aaron is a senior lecturer in the Department of Health Services, University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, and director of the Packard-Gates Population Leadership Program. He was director of the UW Health Policy Analysis Program from 1988 until 2003. Aaron teaches several graduate level courses in health policy, and edits the School's biannual journal, Northwest Public Health.
Tony Lee
Tony has been an advocate for low-income Washingtonians for over 20 years. For the last ten years, Tony has served as the Advocacy Director, Fremont Public Association; he also is Policy Director for the Statewide Poverty Action Network (SPAN). Tony has a BA from Harvard University and a J.D. from University of Washington Law School.
Patrick McIntyre
Prior to entering semi-retired status in early 2007, he was the Executive Director of the Northwest Justice Project. He previously served as Deputy Director of Evergreen Legal Services. His background also includes five years of private practice during which he emphasized state and federal administrative law, including employment-related issues. He currently serves as the Board Chair of the Management Information Exchange. Patrick McIntyre is a graduate of California State University and the Northwestern University School of Law.
Michele Radosevich
Michele is a state and local tax attorney at Davis Wright Tremaine. She is a former chief lobbyist for the Washington Education Association, where she worked on budget issues, and a former special assistant to the director of the Washington Department of Revenue. Michele is an adjunct professor at the Seattle University School of Law, where she has been teaching legislation for ten years, and is on the Board of Directors of the Legal Foundation of Washington. Michele has a BA from Marquette University and a JD, summa cum laude, from Seattle University School of Law.
Mike Ragan
Mike is the vice president of the Washington Education Association. Mike graduated with a degree in engineering and physics then worked all over the country as an engineer. While accompanying his wife who was teaching overseas, Mike studied psychology and education. He received his teaching certificate at Heritage College in Toppenish then completed his student teaching while earning his Masters in Counseling Psychology from Washington State University. Mike became active in his association soon after he began as a science teacher in Kennewick 13 years ago.
Liz Schott
Liz is a Senior Fellow with the Welfare Reform and Income Support Division of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington, DC. She has also worked as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Seattle University Law School, a public policy consultant focusing on policies affecting low-income persons, and a staff attorney and statewide coordinator for Columbia Legal Services and its predecessor organization, Evergreen Legal Services. She received her law degree from Boston University School of Law.
Dave Sieminksi
Dave Sieminski is the managing director of Express Advantage, the non profit affiliate of Express Credit Union, the new low income credit union in King County. Dave most recently spent 9 years with United Way of King County where he helped create and subsequently managed a large scale individual development account program and a countywide free tax and earned income tax credit campaign. He has participated in several local and national asset building initiatives and was a founding member of the United Way of America Financial Stability Partnership. He is member of the Washington State Asset Building Coalition Steering Committee, the Seattle / King County Asset Building Coalition Steering Committee and the National Community Tax Coalition Steering Committee. Dave currently serves as President of the Board of Directors of Community Voice Mail.
Hugh Spitzer
Hugh Spitzer is a public finance lawyer at Foster Pepper PLLC and is an Affiliate Professor of Law at the University of Washington, where he teaches local government law and state constitutional law. He has published widely on public finance, taxation, public contracting and related topics. He served as vice-chair of the Washington State Tax Structure Study Committee (the "Gates Commission") in 2001-2002, and since 2000 has chaired the Washington State Affordable Housing Advisory Board. He received his BA from Yale University in 1970, his JD from the University of Washington Law School in 1974, and an LLM from the University of California Law School at Berkeley in 1982.
Mark Usdane
Mark is a consultant to philanthropic foundations. He previously was the Executive Director of the League of Education Voters, and also worked at the Children’s Alliance, the Department of Social and Health Services, and for over a decade was the Chief Operating Officer of the Vera Institute of Justice in New York City. Mark is a native of Seattle. He earned his Bachelors degree from Brown University and a Masters in Public Health from Columbia University.
Organizational affiliations are for identification purposes only.
