Leadership – Greater Spokane Progress

Staff

Anne Martin

Director

anne@spokaneprogress.org
(509) 624-5657

Anne has been with GSP from the beginning, and is passionate about increasing the capacity of organizations and leaders to create change.

Anne has over 20 years experience with grassroots organizing and advocacy; working nationally, regionally, and locally in Spokane and around the west on environmental and social justice issues.

Board of Directors

Katy Sheehan

Board Member

Katy is the Executive Director of the Community Building Foundation, which is dedicated to empowering local organizations in Spokane to help our community experience justice, vibrancy, and sustainability.

Katy believes this will take powerful leadership skills to achieve and is extremely motivated by projects that empower nontraditional leaders.

Lorna Walsh

Board Member

Lorna has over 20 years experience in a variety of non-profit leadership positions.

Lorna is actively engaged in the community as a volunteer with both non-profit and civic organizations.

Michaela Brown

Board Member

Michaela Brown is a deeply curious, over thinking, heart in hand historian who has been a part of the Excelerate Success team since the partnership’s inception in 2014, and is a trainer with GSP’ Racial Equity Committee.

Born and raised in Spokane, WA she feels divinely placed and called to serve her hometown. Her formal education in history and general passion for multi-cultural education and identity development lead her to Excelerate Success, in a crazy, random, serendipitous kind of way.

Tina Morrison

Board Member

Tina serves as Secretary Treasurer of the Spokane Regional Labor Council and is the

Vice President of the Professional Musicians of the Inland Northwest, Local 105 of the American Federation of Musicians. 

Shar Lichty

Board Member

Shar is an organizer at the Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane and is a trainer with GSP’s Racial Equity Trainers’ Cohort.

She received her BASW with a minor in Africana Education from EWU in June 2010. Shar became active in social justice work in 2006 when the human rights club at SCC that she was involved with co-sponsored a death penalty awareness event with PJALS. That event directly led to Shar's broader commitment to work on social justice issues.

Fernanda Mazcot

Board Member

Fernanda is the Raíz organizer for Planned Parenthood, a unique program that works to build a sustainable relationship among the Latinx by providing advocacy, education and resources.

Fernanda is on the board of The Hispanic Business Professional Association as the current secretary, an organization build to promote cultural, business, professional and education interests in the Inland Northwest. She was born in Mexico and was raised in Wenatchee, WA. She received her bachelors in social work from Whitworth University and her passion is advocating and providing services for reproductive health care and mental health care to the latinx community.

Paul Dillon

Board Member

Paul is the Vice President of Public Affairs for Planned Parenthood Of Greater Washington and North Idaho, overseeing advocacy and communications.

Prior to this, he worked in the state legislature and is currently the board president for the Center For Justice. He was the co-founder of Down To Earth, an environmental advocacy news site that was published by the Spokesman-Review and a former columnist at The Inlander. By combining his non-profit, grassroots organizing, and legislative skills with his strong commitment to values like equity and justice, he is honored to join the GSP Board.

Maggie Gates

Board Member

Maggie is the Community Outreach Coordinator at The Lands Council, an environmental non-profit, and she is a leader in Sunrise Spokane, a youth-led climate justice organization.

She grew up in Denver, Colorado before moving to Spokane to attend Gonzaga for undergrad. She graduated in 2019 with a degree in Political Science & Women/Gender Studies. In July 2019, Maggie launched Sunrise Spokane, a local hub of the national Sunrise Movement, a group of young people fighting for a livable future in the face of the climate crisis and organizing to achieve a Green New Deal. She is passionate about creating a more compassionate and just future for people and the planet.

Terri Anderson

Board Member

Terri has been working at the Tenants Union of Washington State since opening the Spokane office in 2013. The TU now operates four walk in tenant clinics and conducts monthly tenant meetings and organizes tenants to lead their fight for housing justice.

Prior to work on housing justice, Terri worked primarily in communities of color first serving plateau region indigenous communities and then coordinating multicultural student services at Spokane Community College. She has worked as a union organizer, conducted community outreach for police accountability and has served as a longtime board member for S.H.A.W.L. Society a grassroots environmental justice movement on the Spokane Reservation addressing effects of uranium mining. Terri is a former board member of the Spokane Chapter of Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) and is a member of Spokane Asian Pacific Islander Coalition (APIC). Originally from NW Washington Terri earned her degree at Washington State University and made her permanent move to Spokane where she now organizes tenants for just cause eviction, rent control and housing justice.

Pui-Yan Lam

Board Member

Pui-Yan currently serves as the co-chair of Asian Pacific Islander Coalition - Spokane Chapter and as a board member of Refugee Connections.

Through APIC-Spokane, she is also actively involved in the Spokane Coalition of Color.

Naghmana Sherazi

Board Member

Naghmana is an immigrant, born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan; a scientist, an educator, and a community organizer, she has made her home in Spokane the last eight years.

She has an MA in English and BA in Political Science from Karachi University. Naghmana moved to Houston, TX in 2008, and completed an AS in Bio-Technology and a BS in Cytogenetic Technology before moving to Spokane in 2012. She worked at the Spokane Regional Health District in their Opioid Treatment Program before moving to WSU to work as Clinical Research Lab manager at the Sleep and Performance Research Center, and as a Research Assistant with the College of Nursing. She is currently employed at Gonzaga as the Communications & Office Manager in the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Since moving to Spokane, Naghmana has been active in environmental, social, immigrant, gender, and racial equity causes. Having lived and worked on three continents, Naghmana has a unique perspective on life, work, society and ethics, and she draws upon her experience and knowledge of various cultures, religions, and ethnicities as she navigates everyday life. Naghmana is pleased to join the board of GSP.