Our Leadership

Meet the dedicated leaders who work every day to advance YWCA's mission.

YWCA CEO, Maria Chavez Wilcox, leads our dedicated and diverse executive staff team and board of directors. Seven out of eight executive staff members are women, six are people of color. Our agency is also led by staff who manage the services and systems fundamental to YWCA's work.

Executive Staff

Maria Chavez Wilcox

Chief Executive Officer

Chief Human Resources Officer

Chief Communications Officer

Mary Anne Dillon

Executive Director - Snohomish County

Chief Philanthropy Officer

Patricia Hayden

Chief Program Officer

Chief Financial Officer

Executive Administrative Assistant

Board Of Directors

Jean Bartell Barber

Vice Chairman & Treasurer, The Bartell Drug Company

Executive Director/Marketing Director, JP Morgan Chase

Founding President and CEO, Center for Children & Youth Justice

Chief Financial Officer, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

President, The Campion Advocacy Fund

President, Chiles & Company Commercial Real Estate Services

Vice President, Human Resources, Nintendo of America Inc.

Maryann P. Crissey

VP & Relationship Manager, Banner Bank

International Court Consultant and Community Volunteer

Stephanie Ellis-Smith

Community Volunteer

Katharine Fitzgerald

Chief Marketing & Communications Officer, Seattle Children’s

Rafael Grijalva

Amazon, Manager, Site Merchandiser— Kindle

Pamela J. Harkins

Community Volunteer

Bavan M. Holloway

VP Corp Audit, Internal Governance, The Boeing Company

Douglass (Doug) L. Jackson

Consultant, Clinical Professor, UofW School of Dentistry

Jonelle M.C. Johnson

Sales, Nordstrom

Leslie D. Jones

Director, Office of Small Business Development & Labor Compliance, Sound Transit

Professional Development Coach & Consultant

Sandra Madrid, Ph.D.

Special Asst. to the VP for Minority Affairs/Vice Provost for Diversity, UofW (Ret)

Consulting Principal, Trillium360

Principal, MosierMcCann

Gloria Nemechek

Key Bank, Sr. Vice President & Sr. Relationship Manager

Shareholder, Lane Powell

Mary Kay O’Neill, MD, MBA

Partner, Mercer Consulting

Financial Advisor, Cornerstone Advisors

Treasurer/VC Finance

Community Volunteer

Melissa Robertson

Seattle Mariners, Deputy General Counsel

President/CEO, Seattle Metropolitan Credit Union

Owner and Principal, BR Consulting

Lisa E. Schaures

Shareholder, Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt

President, Microsoft Philanthropies, Microsoft Corporation

Akila Somasegar

Advisory Council Member, Girl Up, United Nations Foundation

Denise Stiffarm

Partner, Pacifica Law Group

Alejandro (Alex) C. Torres

Director – Corporate Counsel, Starbucks Coffee Company

Partner, Perkins Coie

Jessie Woolley-Wilson

CEO & President, DreamBox Learning, Inc.

Staff Managers

Employment Services

KC Chief Program Associate

Digital Advocacy

KC Children & Youth

Corporate & Foundation

Anne Ferrell-Sheffer

KC Health Access

Argelia Grassfield

SC Admin & Data Services

Client Data

Information Technology

KC Housing Services

Nichelle Hilton

KC Community Resources

Gwen Hosea-Mimms

Volunteer Services

SC Housing Services

Data Services

Controller

Michelle Osborne

Race & Social Justice

Domestic Violence Services

Political Strategist

Anna Preyapongpisan

KC Permanent Housing

Carolyn Radakovich

Major Gifts

Accounting

SC Permanent Housing

Annalee Schafranek

PR & Marketing

KC Economic Advancement

Russell Simmons

Development Operations

Human Resources

Mona Tschurwald

Homeless & Vet. Services

Vicki Von Stubbe

SC Community Resources

Marketing Operations

KC Admin Data & Grants

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