Sustainable Seattle's Board seeks to redefine what it means to be an organization. Our Co-Creator Agreement and Board DNA are tools to help create this change.

Heather Johnson, Blue Green Group

Heather is the Director of Finance for Blue Marble Energy. Heather’s professional life has been committed to developing organizations and businesses that serve our most poignant societal needs. Her capacities ranging from building accounting structures and financial forecasts, to coaching teams through times of significant growth. Her resume includes work as a consultant with over twenty businesses and organizations, a founding leader of Sustainable Connections in Bellingham, Director of Finance and Accounting with BabyLegs, LLC, and role as Interim Director for Sustainable Seattle. Heather is a magna cum laude graduate of Western Washington University with a degree in Business Administration/Finance, and is certified in Integral Organizational Assessment from Pacific Integral/Leadership Institute of Seattle.

Emily McGrath, Pacific Northwest Association of Independent Schools

When Emily is not skiing, hiking or traveling, she serves as Director of Professional Development for the Pacific Northwest Association of Independent schools.  Her responsibilities include developing programming for Administrators, Staff and Educators.  Prior to her current role, she worked for 5 years in program development of environmental and outdoor education programs.  She holds an MBA in Sustainable Business and a professional certificate in Nonprofit Management from the University of Oregon, as well as a BA in Environmental Science and Anthropology from Bryn Mawr College.

Laura Musikanski, Sustainable Seattle

Laura Musikanski, JD, MBA, CEM, CELR is president of Ursa Major Group, LLC. She is currently serving as Sustainable Seattle's Executive Director in a volunteer position.  She is a lawyer with an MBA and certificates in Environmental Management and Environmental Law and Regulations from the University of Washington. She has advised clients including Chevron, Cascade Designs, Long Boat Key Club, WSDOT and PCC Natural Markets.  Ms. Musikanski is a third generation Seattleite and was an entrepreneur for over fifteen years, launching a product that supported her family and spurred the generation of other small businesses along the West Coast. Laura spearheaded a program to integrate sustainability into business school curricula in the Northwest, founded a club for second career students at her law school, and volunteers as a CASA, advocating for neglected and abused children, and at New Beginnings-Ending Domestic Violence.

Negash Shiferaw Zewdie, Washington Community Alliance for Self-Help (CASH)

Negash Shiferaw is is a part time lecturer and researcher at the University of Washington. He holds an MA in Environmental and Development Studies and has over ten years of experience in the field of sustainable development. He has worked as an analyst and consultant helping clients in project development and conducting environmental impact assessments. Negash has studied and worked with Integral theory and its application in sustainability. He has worked for the United Nations Development Program when implementing an integrally informed country-wide transformational leadership program in Ethiopia. Having lived and worked both in developed and developing countries, Negash brings multiple perspectives in the understanding of sustainability.

On leave:

Travis Green, President of TGreen Consulting

Travis Green is the Principal of TGreen Consulting, and an independent consultant specializing in organizational change. His experience working in multinational corporations as well as non-profit, academic and government sectors qualifies him to understand the systems, structures and complexities of these organizations. Travis uses a “whole-systems” methodology involving collaboration and alignment while emphasizing dialogue to action. His focus is on the human process of strategy building - employees, stakeholders, and customers - through participative process methods, adaptive leadership, and sound strategic planning.