Meet the Board of Directors

Village Volunteers’ Board of Directors manages the organization and supervises the disposition and solicitation of donations. The Board is the ultimate corporate authority and currently consists of ten Directors espousing a strong, balanced blend of skills and experience in core areas important to Village Volunteers.

 

CHRIS MORELAND – BOARD PRESIDENT

Chris Moreland is currently CEO and Co-Founder at Donald-Moreland Inc,; Co-founder and Board member at “Ready 4 School;” an independent Strategic Consultant at Microsoft Inc.; and Board President at Village Volunteers. A skilled business executive with experience at Fortune 50 icons like General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Pepsi, Mobil, Chris has led successful teams in sales, sales operations, marketing, and business development.

Chris was a Captain in the United States Air Force, holds a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from the United States Air Force Academy, and an MBA from Central Michigan University.

 

ROBERT HOWE  - BOARD TREASURER

Robert Howe is the CFO of Howe Real Estate, LLC, a real estate investor and manager since 2006, and Board Treasurer at Village Volunteers. Robert has over 30 years of asset executive management experience in real estate finance, sales and accounting.

Graduating Magna Cum Laude, Robert earned his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from UCLA.

 

KIMBERLY TIPPENS, ND, MSAOM, MPHc

Dr. Tippens is currently a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (F32) fellow receiving training in health disparities and health services research, while completing a Master of Public Health degree program through OHSU.

Dr Tippens received her Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine and a master’s degree in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Bastyr University in Seattle, Washington, and completed a family practice residency at the National College of Natural Medicine with an emphasis on community health. Dr.Tippens was awarded a National Institutes of Health-funded post-doctoral fellowship, received an Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Certificate in Human Investigations, and participated in research evaluating expectancy in the treatment of metabolic syndrome and obesity.

 

CAROL RADLO, MD

Carol Radlo is a family practice physician who has practiced in Kirkland for the past 15 years.  She received her medical degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and completed her family practice residency at Swedish Hospital in 1984.  After practicing in Wenatchee for almost 7 years, both at Wenatchee Valley Clinic and North Central Washington Migrant Health Center she moved back to the Seattle area to practice.

In the spring of 2006, Carol travelled to Muhuru Bay with her 17 year old daughter and spent two weeks as a Village Volunteer working at Mama Maria Kenya Clinic.  Her professional interests include women’s and children’s health, disease prevention, and health education and communication.

 

TRACY BRIGHAM

Tracy Brigham has a Masters of Science Degree and teaches classes in Health, Nutrition, Global issues and college studies at Highline Community College. For the majority of the 2000-2001 school years, she was on professional leave traveling on the African continent researching the AIDS epidemic, female health issues and malnutrition.

During the summer of 2005, Tracy traveled with a Fulbright team to southern Africa where her emphasis was on the effect of different modalities of AIDS education and the de-stigmatization of HIV positive people.  During the fall of 2005, she went on a second professional leave to the Indian subcontinent to study the HIV/AIDS epidemic, female rights issues, family planning, refugee issues (Tibet) and tsunami reconstruction (Sri Lanka.)

 

JOHN AGYAPONG

John Agyapong is a Procurement Manager with the Boeing Company, at the Everett, Washington site. John is responsible for developing innovative support solutions for the Commercial aerospace division, as well as business execution using a functional leadership model.

Prior to his employment at Boeing, he worked at Microsoft and AT &T . He is a native of Ghana, West Africa, and immigrated to the United States at the age of 16. John mentors young people at Mariner high school in Everett, where he volunteers in a class primarily geared to encouraging women and minorities to obtain careers in the sciences and engineering. He obtained his BS in Finance from Central Washington University in 1996, and his MS in Finance in 1998.

 

SAM CHEN

Sam Chen is an IT Consultant with IBM Global Services.  Sam has extensive experience helping clients capture business benefits through the use of technology.  He manages teams of architects, developers, analysts, and testers to implement client specific solutions.  His responsibilities also include business development and sales support.

Sam has a MBA from the University of California at Berkeley, and a BA in Business Administration from the University of Washington.

 

CASEY O’CONNOR

Casey O’Connor first volunteered with Village Volunteers in 2004 and, in May 2006, traveled to Kenya to experience, firsthand, the impact VV is having. While there she conducted a clean water awareness assessment to gather information for the completed ceramic water filter project.  In addition to her studies, Casey has worked for a variety of non-profit organizations both domestically and abroad including Grants Administration at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in San Francisco.

Casey has a BA from the University of Washington in International Studies and is currently pursuing her JD at NYU Law where her studies focus on legal empowerment.

 

JANA PARAGAN

Jana Paragan is the Corporate Support Account Manager for KUOW NPR. She has had over16 years of extensive experience in development as an Account Executive for the Seattle Times/ Seattle Post Intelligence, Seattle Magazine and Northwest Home and Garden, Seattle Metropolitan Magazine, and the Seattle Weekly.

Jana is also a world traveler, having been everywhere from San Miguel de Allende, to Uruguay, Croatia, Turkey, Italy and beyond.

 

JANA PALLIS

Jana Pallis is a consultant for nonprofits, e-commerce businesses, and health organizations regarding sustainable growth and organizational transformation. She has been an interfaith minister since 2004 working with the elderly, at-risk youth, people with disabilities, the homeless, the hungry, and women from diverse cultures and religious backgrounds to live to their greatest potential.

Jana graduated with a B.A. in International Business with honors from Seattle University, and her Masters in Transformational Leadership from the School of Theology and Ministry at Seattle University.

 

JEREMY FARKAS

Jeremy Farkas is the Social Enterprise Business Advisor at PATH, an international non-profit providing appropriate health technologies and vital strategies that improving global health and well-being. A strategic leader with 9 years of marketing, project management, and managerial consulting experience, Jeremy’s areas of specialty are market research, direct marketing, search engine marketing, and business.

Jeremy formerly focused on international economic development and poverty alleviation as manager of Global Programs at Unitus. He also managed business strategy and analysis at Expedia Corporate Travel. Jeremy earned his MBA in Marketing and Entrepreneurship from the University of Washington, Michael G. Foster School of Business and a BS in accounting from Lehigh University.

 

KRISTEN NELSEN

Bio to come.