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.

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.

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.

Danielle Devier is an urban ecologist and landscape architect who works at the intersection of science, design, and community stewardship to restore healthy, resilient places. For nearly two decades in the Pacific Northwest, she has partnered with public agencies, nonprofits, and local communities to improve rivers, shorelines, and urban forests so both people and wildlife can thrive.

Danielle’s path into this work began with a lifelong love of the outdoors and a curiosity about how living systems function. She trained first as a scientist, earning degrees in biology and ecology and working as a research scientist at Columbia University’s Biosphere 2 Center, where she studied ecosystem processes and climate relationships. Wanting to translate science into tangible, on-the-ground solutions, she later earned a Master’s in Landscape Architecture and found her calling in applied restoration and climate resilience.

Today, Danielle serves as a Senior Urban Ecology Analyst with the Green Seattle Partnership, where she supports shoreline and river restoration, urban forest stewardship, and data-driven planning that helps communities make informed, lasting environmental investments. Her work includes blue carbon studies, salmon habitat recovery, and collaborative projects that bring together technical expertise and local knowledge.

Raised in the mountains of Utah and now rooted in Seattle, Danielle is inspired by the belief that caring for land and water is also caring for each other. She brings creativity, curiosity, and a deep commitment to partnership to everything she does.

Zoe Rothchild is an independent consultant to non-profit organizations and foundations. She is also the current Grants Manager for Toxic-Free Future, a national environmental health organization dedicated to reigning in hazardous chemicals in consumer products. She is the former Co-Director of the Northwest Fund for the Environment where she led the Freshwater Aquatic Ecosystems program and co-designed and managed numerous initiatives.  A strong believer in the power of philanthropy and nonprofits to bring about change in our communities, she has served on a variety of Boards and committees at organizations that include, the Vashon Maury Land Trust, Women’s Funding Alliance, and the Vashon Center for Dance. Zoe is a graduate of the University of Vermont and holds a B.S. in Environmental Studies, and a Certificate of Environmental Management from the University of Washington. When not working Zoe can be found with her husband walking their dog in the forests of Vashon Island or in her garden cursing the weeds.