Board of Directors
Jill Mangaliman
Community Activist
Jill is a queer, Filipino-American community organizer, born and raised in Seattle. Jill graduated from the University of Washington as a student of Human Geography. For six years, they organized in local and national campaigns involving health care equity, immigrant rights, and protecting social services. In 2009 they joined Got Green as part of the City Weatherization program. There, they stepped into leadership, from founding board member to lead organizer, and played an instrumental role in the formation and strategy of the Food Access Team. In their spare time, they enjoy singing karaoke, cooking, and making things.
Barbara “BG” Nabors-Glass
Director of Equity and Inclusion — Seattle Goodwill Industries
BG’s previous role was Vice President of Job Training and Education. Throughout her career, she has developed a variety of youth workforce development training programs, including an environmental stewardship program with the City of Seattle. Prior to her work with Goodwill, she served in leadership at the Seattle Housing Authority and is a lawyer by training.
BG is currently a Leadership Fellow with the Rosenberg Foundation mentoring dozens of community groups. Her leadership roots go back to her work as a Black Panther in Oakland, California, where she saw firsthand the issues of environmental racism manifest in the neighborhoods she served.
David Morales
Legal Aid Attorney — Northwest Justice Project, Farm Worker Unit
David Morales grew up in a farm worker family. He has worked in the agricultural warehouses of California and now serves as a legal aid attorney based in the Yakima office of the Northwest Justice Project, Farm Worker Unit. He has been actively involved in community building efforts and in the work for justice in the Yakima Valley and served in various leadership roles statewide, such as Commissioner on the Washington State Commission for Hispanic Affairs, past Board Chair for Progreso (a civic community engagement project for Latinos in Washington), and La Casa Hogar’s Board of Directors. David graduated from Columbia University Law School and UC Berkeley.
Advisory Council
Aiko Schaefer
She/her/hers
Executive Director — Just Solutions
Languages: English
Aiko has over 25 years of experience working on public policy issues and campaigns around the US on poverty, inequality, consumer protection and conservation, as well as running state and federal partisan campaigns. She is the founding director of Front and Centered, a position she held for five years, during which she served as the Co-chair of the Alliance for Jobs and Clean Energy which developed and led the groundbreaking 2018 climate justice ballot measure, Initiative 1631. Prior to her work on climate and environmental policy, Aiko was on the faculty at the University of Washington.
Brady Piñero Walkinshaw
CEO — Grist
Brady Piñero Walkinshaw is the CEO of Grist, a leading national environmental media organization dedicated to the story of a more just, sustainable future. Brady served two terms in the Washington State Legislature and was previously at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He serves on a number of national and local nonprofit and startup boards, including Progress Alliance, United Way, Latino Victory Project, and others. Brady is a Fulbright Scholar and a graduate of Princeton University, where he served on the board of trustees. He lives in Seattle with his husband, Micah, a marine biologist for the State of Washington.
Cynthia Renfro
CEO — Civis Consulting, LLC
Cynthia is the principal and CEO at Civis Consulting LLC, a consulting firm launched in 2012 to support philanthropic institutions and community-based organizations in developing and implementing strategic and intentional programs. Cynthia is currently a program consultant to the Arch Community Fund and the Laughing Gull Foundation; she has previously worked at the Marguerite Casey Foundation, the Beldon Fund, and the Turner Foundation.
Cynthia serves on the board of directors of the the Public Citizen Foundation and Funders for LGBTQ Issues. She previously served on the boards of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, the National Network of Grant-Makers, the Environmental Leadership Program, and the Neighborhood Funders Group. She loves to read sci fi, binge watch Netflix with her partner, and is a 10+ year season ticket holder for the WNBA’s Seattle Storm (GO STORM!).
Bookda Gheisar
Senior Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion — Port of Seattle
Bookda moved to the US from Iran in 1980. She has been living in Seattle for 27 years. A social worker by personal direction and formal training, Bookda is most passionate about social change and organizing communities around the root causes of social and economic inequities.
Bookda currently serves as Senior Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the Port of Seattle. In this capacity she partners with lines of business to ensure that externally facing equity goals and objectives are incorporated into business plans. As a member of the Executive Leadership Team, she oversees the infusion of equity, diversity, and inclusion into the Port of Seattle’s culture, strategies, and goals.
Before joining the Port, Bookda served as Policy Advisor of the Office of Equity and Social Justice for the King County Executive Office after a distinguished career as a foundation executive for the Mona Foundation, Global Washington, and the Social Justice Fund.
Richard Woo
Richard is an advisor to foundations, impact investors, and community leaders. He is the retired CEO of the Russell Family Foundation in Washington and currently serves on the boards of the Greater Tacoma Community Foundation and the Change Happens Foundation. Richard is also a JEDI (justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion) Advisor to the ClimateWorks Foundation. He is committed to building whole, affirming and just community through deep listening, reflecting, and storytelling.
