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Gerry M. Woodard Coret t a Harwood

ABOUT: Gerry is the Executive director of The Sankofa ABOUT: Coretta is Washington State?s first African American

Foundation for The Evergreen State College-Tacoma. woman embalmer. Coretta is an advocate for promoting
self-esteem for young women
WEBSITE: https://www.facebook.com/tacomasankofafoundation
WEBSITE: http://Scottfuneralhometacoma.com
CURRENTLY: Gerry?s goal is to enhance the foundation?s
ability to hold fundraisers for the foundation?s financial CURRENTLY: Coretta is the owner of Scott Funeral Home,
assistance program for Evergreen Tacoma Campus students. Washington's oldest African American Funeral establishment.

In addition, he wants to substantially increase the number of Coretta also holds a seat as an executive board member of
students the foundation assists annually. the Hilltop business association, and sits on the board of
directors for Evergreen Empowerment Group.

Kit t y Scot t Alicia Klein

ABOUT: ?My life at The Evergreen State College was amazing. I ABOUT: Alicia graduated from Evergreen Tacoma in 2005 and
drew strength from the awesome campus and was inspired as went on to complete her Masters in Healthcare
a student in The Evergreen Bachelor of Arts program to Administration from Chapman University in 2008. Alicia Klein
further my education.? She attended Antioch University, is also the Secretary of Tacoma urban league board.

Seattle and graduated in June of 2004 with a Masters in
WEBSITE: https://www.facebook.com/TacomaBreastHealth
Education.
CURRENTLY: Alicia Klein is currently the Health Center
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manager for Planned Parenthood Tacoma. She is also an
CURRENTLY: Kitty is currently assisting her daughter, Coretta active member of Leaders in Women Health, which focuses
Harwood at the Scott Funeral Home. There, she shares her on providing breast education to African American women in

passion and desire to help others learn, as well as be part of Tacoma/Pierce county to directly impact health disparities.
the maturing process.

Donna Griffin Leah Wilkins

ABOUT: Donna is the Tacoma Alumni Chapter President. She ABOUT: Leah is the Writing Center Coordinator for Evergreen
has recently retired from her role in real estate and has spent -Tacoma. Her work is dedicated to exploring meaningful ways
her time working diligently in nonprofit organizations. Donna to enrich peer-tutoring experiences for tutors as well as

was also the Assistant to the Director at Evergreen-Tacoma. writers. Evergreen's Writing Centers facilitate learning and
teaching opportunities, skills-building, and peer-mentoring.
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Our collective goal is for writers to come away from sessions
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feeling validated, empowered by their writing choices, and to
CURRENTLY: Donna recently started a very lucrative Mary gain increasing confidence in their writing.
Kay business.
WEBSITE: https://www.evergreen.edu/writingcenter/writing-center