Salish's talented and dedicated board of directors.

Officers

Eric Laschever, M.M.A, J.D., President
Eric is a partner at Stoel Rives LLP, where he heads the Seattle Land Use Practice. He came to Stoel Rives from Preston Gates and Ellis, where as a partner he focused on environmental and land use issues. He is a graduate of the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School and National Outdoor Leadership School, Williams College Mystic Seaport Program in Maritime Studies and the University of Washington’s School of Marine Affairs.

Terese (T.C.) Richmond, J.D., Vice President
T.C. is a partner at the law firm of Gordon Derr LLP.  In February 2007, she left the University of Washington Division of the Office of the Attorney General where her primary practice areas were environmental and land use. She began her legal career as a Law Clerk with the Washington State Supreme Court.  She joined the Attorney General’s Office in 1985 and served in the Ecology Division and the Fish and Wildlife Division.  She served as a Special Assistant to the Governor of Washington State before temporarily leaving Washington to serve as Chief Counsel to the Arizona Department of Water Resources and as a Deputy Director with the Tucson Active Management Area.  T.C. also served as a Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in the Transit and Water Quality Section of the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.  T.C. received a B.A. in Biology from Whitman College and a J.D. from Gonzaga University School of Law.

Tom Mueller, B.S., Secretary
Tom runs his part time environmental consulting business called Sequana Environmental from his residence on Bainbridge Island.  He happily retired from public service in August 2005 after spending 34 years with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. For his first 5 years with the Corps, he worked on dredges on the Mississippi River and snag boats on Puget Sound.  For the remaining 29 years, he worked in the Corps Seattle District's regulatory program, first as a project manager and supervisor for 15 years and then as the Branch Chief for 14 years.  Tom earned his BS degree in biological oceanography from the University of Washington in 1971.  Tom is a strong proponent of environmental stewardship, especially in educating our youth of its importance.

John Sheppard, M.B.A, Treasurer
John is the Director of REI Adventures & Outdoor School, the adventure travel and outdoor education division of REI, which operates 140 programs on all seven continents in 40 countries.  John has held several REI leadership roles, including managing operations of the Seattle Flagship Store.  He earned a Masters of Business Administration with an emphasis in marketplace strategy and business policy, from the University of Washington.  In addition to his business management experience he is an accomplished sailor and is very active in yacht racing.  John is a U.S. Merchant Marine Officer holding a U.S.C.G. 50GT Master License and is a certified S.T.C.W. Medical Person-in-Charge.

Members

Laurie Bauman Arnold, B.A.
Laurie is a writer and designer of over 40 children’s interactive computer games, many of them award winning, and has written numerous episodes for children’s television programs, among them “Dragon Tales,” currently airing on PBS. She has also written and published several children’s books. Her passion for exposing children to healthy media alternatives and providing them with engaging opportunities to learn problem-solving skills has been a driving force in her career as a children’s media writer. She graduated from Antioch University with a B.A. in English.

Kimberly E. Corrigan, M.A.
Kim is a freelance writer who previously directed education outreach for YES! Magazine, a journal of environmental sustainability and social justice. She was based in Limassol, Cyprus for six years as the International Education Director for a Dutch company, overseeing schools in Eastern Europe, China, Russia and the Ukraine. Prior to that, she was the Leadership Education Coordinator for Washington State University, where she taught educational psychology. After leaving Cyprus, she was a senior manager at Gear.com. Kim has a B.A. and Masters degree in Communications and Political Science from Washington State University.

Katharine (Trina) F. Wellman, M.M.A., Ph.D.
Trina is a currently a natural resource economist for Northern Economic, Inc. that is based in Anchorage, Alaska.  She previously served as a consultant specializing in environmental and natural resource economics as applied to marine resource management and public policy development and implementation. She has worked for the Battelle Memorial Institute, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington D.C., and has experience as a student, crewmember and science coordinator on both research and sailing vessels. Trina has a Masters in Marine Affairs and a Ph.D. in Natural Resource Economics from the University of Washington.

Thomas G. Callahan, M.M.A.
CDR Thomas G. Callahan, NOAA (ret), M.M.A. Secretary Thomas is the founder of Waypoint Environmental Consulting, LLC, and performs natural resource damage assessments in response to oil and chemical spills in the marine environment. Previously, Thomas served 24 years as a commissioned officer with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the US Coast Guard. During this career he served as captain of research vessels and managed federal marine environmental protection programs. Thomas has also provided instruction to international students from over 150 countries as an Associate Professor of Environmental Protection at the World Maritime University in Malmo, Sweden.

Roger Coulter, M.P.P.M.
Roger uses his expertise in strategy, finance and operations both as the Director of Finance for Unitus, an international microfinance non-profit, and as a volunteer for several not-for-profit organizations.  Roger excels at analyzing and diagnosing the root causes of operational inefficiencies and developing solutions to align business processes with the overall mission and strategy of the organization.  Roger earned his B.A. from Brown University and his Masters of Public and Private Management from Yale University and over the course of his career has worked at Goldman Sachs in New York, and Amazon.com here in Seattle.

Bruce Gryniewski, M.A.
Bruce Gryniewski is a Principal in the Seattle office of Gallatin Public Affairs.  Bruce also served as Executive Director of Washington Conservation Voters (WCV), an environmental organization that backs candidates for office who support conservation policies that enhance our quality of life.  During his tenure, WCV became one of the most influential, effective and well-funded State League organizations in the nation.  Bruce’s background also includes graduate study in cultural anthropology at the University of Rochester in New York.  He spent two years in the Federated States of Micronesia, where he conducted research on the politics of nationhood in the Southwest Pacific.  In his free time, Bruce enjoys spending time with his family outdoors camping and hiking.

Ken Fabert, M.D.
Ken Fabert is a family practitioner physician serving as Group Health Cooperative’s clinic in Poulsbo, Washington.  In medicine as well as life, Ken is committed to helping others and strongly believes in connecting youth with the natural world.  He can often be seen sailing Puget Sound in his venerable Catalina 27 “Duck”. Ken graduated from Davidson College with a B.A. in German, and earned his M.D. from Wake Forest University.

Scott B. Vokey, J.D.
Scott is General Counsel of Weyerhaeuser Real Estate Company.  Previously he held positions in hospitality and investment companies and was a partner in Preston Gates & Ellis, a Seattle headquartered law firm.  He is a graduate of Northfield Mt. Hermon School, Connecticut College and the University of Houston College of Law.  Scott’s passion is sailing and he continues to explore the waters of the Pacific Northwest and other areas of the world with family, friends and fellow Salish board members.