HWEFN Board

Demis Foster, Trustee, Seattle, Washington. Demis is a Senior Associate at PRR, a public relations firm, and previously served as executive director of HWEFN. She played leadership roles on numerous forest protection campaigns with Biodiversity Northwest and was outreach director for the Cascades Conservation Partnership and campaign director of the Ancient Forest Roadshow.

Lori Houck Cora Vice President, Seattle, Washington. Lori is an environmental attorney and has worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for 12 years. She has worked to cleanup toxic waste in Alaska, Washington, and Oregon and enforces federal environmental laws. Lori and her husband, Chris, are avid outdoorspeople and enjoy fly fishing, telemark skiing, hiking, birding, and travelling to places of natural beauty. Lori hopes that organizations, like HWEFN, can help better communicate the community and public’s interest to influence government decisions.

Douglas Frick, Treasurer, Seattle, Washington. Doug retired from a 30-year career as a hydrogeologist to more actively pursue his interests in documentary video production, theater, and volunteer work for environmental initiatives. Recently, he has provided pro bono hydrogeologic consulting services to the Kettle Range Conservation Group, worked with the Take Back Your Time Day campaign, and volunteered in schools. For the past four years, he has been working on a documentary video project profiling the Mountaineer Players, an active branch of The Mountaineers Club that has been producing plays in their outdoor theater since the early 1920s. Doug and his wife Ellen have a video production company, Two Bob Productions, focused on environmental protection and peace efforts that involve building community among actual and potential antagonists.

Judith Johnson, Trustee, Walla Walla, Washington. Activist and collaborator in conservation efforts in the Pacific Northwest. Experience includes forest mapping, watershed implementation, and monitoring migratory bird and wildlife habitats. Co-founder of Kooskooskie Commons, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to connect cultures within the Inland and Pacific Northwest through storytelling, arts, education, commerce and festive events that celebrate the ways we inhabit the landscape. Visual artist who has had more than 22 shows in Oregon and Washington. Judith is a member of the board of directors, and Conservation Committee Chair for the Flintridge Foundations. Serves on several nonprofit boards throughout the Pacific Northwest.

Cassy Soden, Secretary, Seattle, Washington. Cassy works in communications for a Seattle-based foundation and has helped produce and direct several independent films. She was co-chair of the Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival in 2007 and is reprising that role for the 2008 festival.

Grace Stahre, President, Seattle, Washington. Grace Stahre is a jill of all media trades, from web design and management, to video production, to wedding and travel photography. She has broken every form of electronic equipment, and has learned to buy extended warranties and insurance. She spent 7 years working at Microsoft (gaining a reputation for racking up unusually large equipment repair and replacement charges) while performing voluntary tech consulting for several Northwest non-profits. She said good-bye to Redmond in early 2005 to focus on documentary production. While she continues to perform tech consulting when not in production phases, she hopes to eventually combine these two loves into an effective non-profit voice, as well as broadening the horizon for informative media distribution through the web. She now owns her own video production company, Versant Media, focusing on environmental and human rights issues, both domestic and international. She’s only broken a lamp so far this year.

Thank you to all our past Board Trustees: David Atcheson, Anch Bergeson, Mark Bergeson, William Brent, John de Graaf, Mary Ann Kae, Kristi Laguzza Boosman, Jennifer Lail, Bryce Mathern, Fidelma McGinn, Sarah Miller, Taylor Pittman, Allison Riese, Chris Schults, William Thompson, Melissa Young

Advisory Board

• Steve Albertson, Real Impact, Seattle, WA
• Susan Ballinger, Biologist/Educator, Wenatchee, WA
• Caroline Cumming, Seattle, WA
• John De Graaf, Independent Producer, KCTS - Seattle, WA
• John Hoskyns-Abrahall, Bullfrog Films, Oley, PA
• John Knox, Earth Island Institute, San Francisco, CA
• Kristi Laguzza-Boosman, Twisp, WA
• Heather McAndrew, Asterisk Productions, Victoria, BC
• Fidelma McGinn, Film Arts Foundation, San Francisco, CA
• Winnie Scherrer, Bullfrog Films, Oley, PA
• Barry Snitkin, Siskiyou Project, Cave Junction, OR
• David Springbett, Asterisk Productions, Victoria, BC
• Sam Stegeman, Wendall, MA
• Adam Werbach, San Francisco, CA