Ann Krumboltz, Executive Director

Ann oversees the administrative, management, financial and programmatic aspects of the foundation. Having been a grantee herself for many years, she wants the foundation to be a strong and accessible partner to the community it serves. Prior to joining the Brainerd Foundation, Ann worked for the Energy Foundation and several nationally-based environmental, arms control and consumer organizations. She holds a master's degree in public administration from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. She has served on a variety of boards.

Ann enjoys a daily gym pilgrimage, hiking, theater, and reading non-fiction. She has a penchant for travel, both foreign and domestic. She also volunteers for locally based social or political organizations, as time allows.

Jim Owens, Senior Program Officer

Jim makes recommendations for funding and helps develop strategies for the foundation's programs. He works with groups to help them understand the foundation's funding programs and enjoys sharing suggestions, campaign ideas and strategies with activists in the region. Jim also travels throughout the Northwest to better understand endangered ecosystems issues and to strengthen working relationships with conservation activists.

Jim is a fourth generation Northwesterner whom the foundation lured back from Washington, D.C. in 1995 after four years of working on the Ancient Forest and "takings" campaigns. Jim is happiest when he's in southeast Alaska watching whales from a kayak with one of his daughters, exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or flying kites on a wilderness river.

Keiki Kehoe, Consultant

Keiki is a consultant who helps foundations and nonprofit organizations become more effective. She works part time for the foundation, overseeing the Catalyst Fund grant program and working with the staff on other initiatives. A survivor of a 15-year stint inside the D.C. Beltway, Keiki has extensive experience as an activist, advocate and manager of national environmental organizations. She lives with her husband and daughter in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood and aspires to raise chickens in her backyard.

Kathleen Whitson, Program Associate

Kathleen works part time providing program support to Ann, Jim and Keiki, assisting with some grant management tasks, overseeing external communications for the foundation (including this Web site) and providing back-up office support.

Kathleen and her husband Nick live in West Seattle with their two small children. Back when she had free time, Kathleen enjoyed gardening, knitting, and reading. Now, with the kids, work, and the house to keep, she dreams about gardening, knits on the bus, and reads in rare moments of free-time, if she can stay awake.

Hattie Cambridge, Grants Administrator/Office Manager

Hattie's job responsibilities include ensuring we respond to the needs of our grantees on a variety of fronts and that our "back bone" office systems work smoothly and efficiently. Hattie worked for almost fifteen years at Seattle Community College Foundation, where she took an environmental science course that sparked her concern for the fragility of our natural world. Now at the foundation, she hopes her hard work leaves her two kids, Jason and Emily, a healthier planet

A California transplant of forty years, Hattie lives with her husband, Sam, and their dog, Cassie. In her spare time, she is an avid gardener, cyclist, hiker and music-lover.

Crystal Anderson, Controller

Crystal's job involves managing the financial, investment and human resource aspects of the foundation. She earned her degree in accounting from the University of Washington and is a certified public accountant with both public and private accounting experience.

Crystal enjoys her part-time schedule, which provides her life balance and time for her family. She can be found cheering for her son in ball parks across the Eastside and escorting teens on adventures. She feels passionate about experiencing the outdoors and lets the weather guide her daily activities. Rain calls for reading, movies and cooking while the blessing of light, sun and warmth is always celebrated with a walk or a meal outside

Allison Carver, Information Technology Consultant

Allison has worked as a part-time consultant for the Brainerd Foundation since 2003, which allows her to spend her off-time with her young sons as a cookie-baking PTA mom. Allison comes to the foundation with years of experience in IT, beginning at the age of 12 at her dad's Silicon Valley start-up, and leading up to a decade as an enterprise network engineer and educator in Seattle.

The geekiness of her job drives Allison to chase many creative and active pursuits in her spare time. Her passions include gourmet cooking and catering, in-line skating and creating community (mostly to satisfy her need to develop a critical mass with which to play board games).