Ann Krumboltz, Executive Director annk@brainerd.org

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.

Ann was a program officer for the Energy Foundation in San Francisco before starting at the Brainerd Foundation. Prior to that, she spent 12 years working for 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 many boards.

Ann is a regular visitor to the gym (whether she feels like it or not). She enjoys hiking and water sports. Her favorite pastimes are reading (mostly non-fiction) and foreign travel. Her volunteer work tends to be for local organizations that focus on social or political issues.

Jim Owens, Program Officer jimo@brainerd.org

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 was happy to bring his family back to the Northwest and to the places he hiked, kayaked, skied or climbed in the past. Today he spends most of his outdoor time as a soccer, ski and crew dad, working with his wife to help their three daughters develop into strong advocates for their own interests. 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 keikik@brainerd.org

Keiki is a consultant who helps foundations and nonprofit organizations become more effective. She oversees the Brainerd Catalyst Fund grant program and works 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 kathleenw@brainerd.org

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 hattiec@brainerd.org

Hattie arrived in Seattle twenty-five years ago. She traded in her southern California tan for fresh air and big evergreens. 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.

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. She lives with her husband, Sam, and their dog, Cassie. In her spare time, she is an avid gardener, cyclist, hiker and "groupie" for her daughter's band.

Crystal Anderson, Controller crystala@brainerd.org

Crystal is a third-generation Washingtonian. She works part-time at the foundation, so as to spend more time caring for her two young children, Kayla and Cooper.

Crystal's job involves managing the financial, investment and human resource aspects of the organization.

Allison Carver, Information Technology Consultant allisonc@brainerd.org

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. Her past and present industry certifications are too obnoxiously long to list here.

Allison has worked as a part-time consultant for the Brainerd Foundation since 2003. So far this has worked out great for both, as the foundation gets to minimize its costs and Allison is able to spend her off-time with her young sons as a cookie-baking PTA mom.

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).