Fondo de Mitigación y Gestión del Estrecho de Puget

Evlyn Andrade is a strategic, equity-driven leader with more than 20 years of experience advancing racial, environmental, and social justice across nonprofit, philanthropic, and public sectors. Grounded in lived experience as the daughter of immigrants and sibling to system-impacted brothers, her leadership is rooted in proximity, collaboration, and long-term movement building.

She currently serves as a Senior Program Officer at Magic Cabinet, where she partners with communities and nonprofits to strengthen trust-based philanthropy and advance equitable grantmaking. Evlyn also works as a Philanthropic Advisor and Nonprofit Consultant, helping organizations align strategy, culture, and resources around equity and community impact.

Her career bridges philanthropy, policy, and executive leadership, with a focus on directing resources and influence toward community-led solutions. She has led efforts within organizations to center environmental justice and racial equity, strengthening partnerships with grassroots communities, and has worked across local, regional, and national political campaigns to advance racial, economic, and climate justice.

A UC Berkeley graduate, Evlyn also serves on the boards of The Russell Family Foundation and UnCommon Law, where she helps steward equity-centered governance and grantmaking. Her work reflects a lifelong commitment to shifting power, resourcing frontline leadership, and building institutions that are accountable to the communities they serve.

In her free time, she enjoys traveling, hiking, snowboarding, meditating, and listening to audiobooks.

Willard Brown served as the Director of Housing and Environmental Programs at Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association (DNDA), where he worked for 6 years after retiring from Seattle Housing Authority (SHA), where he worked for just over 34 years. Willard was a key employee and for the last ten years at SHA, served as Property Management Administrator for Redevelopment. He has served on the Advisory Council for African American Elders and currently serves on the Board of the Equitable Development Initiative (EDI) as he continues to fight for investments in Delridge’s infrastructure. Though Willard is retired from the DNDA, he continues to support environmental projects within the Delridge community and Longfellow Creek watershed and has been championing the restoration and protection of the Delridge wetland and Roxhill Bog. He is working closely with community members, local governments, and organizations to gain their support for these projects, increase community awareness of the environmental importance of the wetlands within the watershed, and significantly reduce area flooding and stormwater pollution entering Longfellow Creek. Willard is also actively involved in updating the 2035 Delridge Neighborhood Plan, is a Emeritus member of the Board of Directors of the Seattle Green Spaces Coalition, and has worked closely with City Council members to gain support for community-based organizations being able to own surplus properties and re-purpose them for community benefit.

Laura serves on Rose Foundation’s Board of Directors, and was previously the Program Officer for the Puget Fund, helping invest millions in watershed protection in the Pacific Northwest. She has deep connections to water from her roots in the Andes mountains of Colombia and occasionally does open water swimming. Laura now manages outreach at the Goldman Environmental Prize, and practices participatory grantmaking as a Giving Circle Network member at the Latino Community Foundation. She received two B.As, in Geography and International Relations, from Florida International University, and Development Studies at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Whether playing soccer, enjoying local brews, or using a bicycle as her main means of transportation, she strives to be an active advocate for her broader Latinx community and social justice.

Pam Fujita-Yuhas serves as Senior Program Officer at CARE Fund, where she is responsible for planning, developing, and implementing CARE Fund grant programs and special projects as part of the CARE Fund’s strategy to advance cancer research and improve cancer care access. Prior to her work at CARE Fund, Pam served for over two decades as a Foundation Director for the NW Fund for the Environment where she co-managed the Foundations’s operations and grantmaking programs focused on community engagement, capacity building, native species protection and ecosystem management. A former volunteer coordinator of the Puget Sound Funders group, she also served on grant committees of the Social Justice Fund and the Seattle Foundation. An advocate for funder practices that center equity, communication and trust, she joined the Puget Sound Stewardship and Mitigation Fund Advisory Board in 2021 and became a member of the Rose Foundation Board of Directors in 2023.

Born and raised in Hawai’i, Eloise has a deep connection to open water and the issues that impact the communities and ecosystems that rely on healthy waterways. As a strategist and storyteller, she has 15+ years of experience supporting government, private, and nonprofit agencies in diverse industries throughout the U.S. and internationally. Since moving to the Seattle area in 2018, she is focused on projects and programs that prioritize the wellbeing of those systemically burdened by environmental harms. In addition to being a board member of Rose Foundation’s Funding Board, Eloise is a strategic communications consultant and sits on the board of Sustainable Seattle — a nonprofit working to create a more equitable and resilient Seattle — and guides the communications and marketing program of Friendly Hmong Farms as a volunteer — a Hmong-led Community Supported Agriculture venture in partnership with Hmong farmers and other farmers from Black, Indigenous, Asian, and Pacific Islander communities. She received her BFA in Film and Television Production from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and her MA in Asian American Studies from San Francisco State University’s College of Ethnic Studies. Eloise is the proud mother of a rambunctious seven-year-old, a firm practitioner of intersectional frameworks, and is anxiously awaiting her first Southern Resident orca sighting.

Cathy is Senior Program Officer for The Harder Foundation, a private family foundation that supports biodiversity and healthy ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest. She has spent the last 20 years working in various roles of philanthropy, environmental policy, community and economic development, social impact and grassroots organizing, and has served on dozens of community boards and commissions – including Bellingham City Council, and a governor-appointed commission for the state’s volunteerism initiative, Serve Washington. Cathy has a BA in Communications from Western Washington University, a Masters in Social Entrepreneurship and Change from Pepperdine University, and a Certificate in Sustainable Business from Pinchot University at Presidio Graduate School. She lives in Bellingham with her husband David.