Dr Joanne Harley Lynn

Dr. Joanne Harley Lynn leads Altarum Institute’s Center on Elder Care and Advanced Illness. Previously, she was director of The Washington Home Center for Palliative Care Studies, in Washington, D.C. She was also a senior scientist for RAND, a nonprofit institution that seeks to improve policy and decision-making through research and analysis, and a clinical professor of medicine at The George Washington University, as well as president of Americans for Better Care of the Dying, a nonprofit public advocacy group that seeks to improve Medicare and Medicaid and other aspects of federal health policy.

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Phyllis Gutiérrez Kenney

In 1967 Kenney co-founded The Latino Association, which initiated a volunteer program providing educational and childcare services to migrant children. This initiative evolved into the Washington Citizens for Migrant Affairs, now known as Inspire, which secured federal funding to establish childcare centers across Eastern Washington.

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Polly Dyer

Polly Dyer was a Seattle conservationist and environmentalist. Her dedication to safeguarding Washington’s Olympic coastline and forests and to protecting wilderness areas across the state had a profound impact on the successful preservation of Washington’s natural areas.

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Reema Zaman

Reema Zaman is the author of the memoir, I am Yours, where she shares a story of hope as she guides the reader through her life.

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Susan Balbas

Susan Balbas is the co-director of the Na’ah Illahee Fund, an organization based in the Pacific Northwest which focuses on supporting Indigenous communities and environmental conservation efforts.

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Tracy Rector

Tracy Rector is a storyteller, educator, filmmaker, coordinator, co-founder of Longhouse Media non-profit organization, multi-media artist, and a 2016 Stranger Genius.

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