Board of Directors

Our current 826 Seattle Board of Directors is comprised of:

Sherman Alexie: Novelist, poet, short story writer, screenplay writer, and film director

David Brotherton: Founder and president of Brotherton Strategies, which provides communication services to corporate, philanthropic, and not-for-profit ventures

Elizabeth Duffell: Program specialist for the Seattle Times‘ Newspapers in Education program and a Ph.D. student in Language Literacy and Culture at the University of Washington

Michele Dunkerley: Co-founder of Pressa Verde books, which challenges the conventional boundaries of nature writing to bring the finest in contemporary and classic authors to our readers

Ted Dworkin: Software and content development manager in Microsoft’s Windows Experiences group

Teri Hein: Executive Director of 826 Seattle

Joan Hiller: Publicist for Riot Act Media

Matthew Leavenworth: Senior Product Manager on Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourcing start-up that is part of Amazon.com

Jared Leising: Poet, fiction writer, and a member of the English Faculty at Cascadia Community College

Pam MacEwan: Executive Vice President for Public Affairs at Group Health Cooperative

Shawn Rediger: Senior attorney for Williams, Kastner and Gibbs

Ann Senechal: Boston-based business writer