Fellows Cohort

The World Affairs Council Fellows Program offers a unique professional development opportunity to a small group of greater Seattle’s business and community leaders. 

Karen Balek
Director of Portfolio Analytics
Weyerhaeuser
Alex Bolton
Executive Director, Tech Policy Lab
University of Washington
Michael Brett
Head of Go-To-Market for Quantum Technologies
Amazon Web Services
Caitlin Caldwell
Senior Staff / Principal Technical Program Manager
Meta
Tammy Deets
International Trade Specialist
Washington State Department of Commerce
Julian Diaz-Morales
Senior Corporate Counsel
Microsoft
Mary Evans
Director, Grant Solutions
World Vision
Amy Heinemann
Senior Manager, Go-to-Market Operations
f5
Dominique DeVaux Jeffords
Sr. Manager, Cybersecurity
T-Mobile
Taylor Jones
Vice President and Portfolio Manager
U.S. Bank Private Wealth Management
Noa Katz
Head of Research and Analysis
Wikistrat Inc.
Daniel Keum
Litigation Associate
Morrison Foerster
Kendall Krause
Senior Program Officer
Gates Foundation
Paulos Ashebir Lakew
Regional Director, Market Analysis
Boeing
Janet Lawson
Senior Program Officer, Agriculture Advocacy
Gates Foundation
Curry Mayer
Director, Emergency Management
City of Seattle
Aaron Oravillo
Consultant/Project Manager
Rory Paine-Donovan
Legislative Director
Office of Insurance Commissioner
Michael Rawding
Founding Partner
GeoFusion
Larry Sims
Sales Skyline Director
Boeing
Dennis Skarr
Founder and CEO
SkarrNet Training Systems
Nivruti Sridhar
Director of Sustainability and Climate Risk
Realty Income Corporation
Stephen Taylor
Associate
Davis Wright Termaine
Omar Vasquez
Associate General Counsel
Cercano Management
Isabella Viotto
Private Wealth Advisor
Goldman Sachs