Sanai Anang- Founder and Executive Director

Work history- Full background/Resume https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanai-anang/

Sanai Anang has worked towards the creation of this non-profit for the last five years. Doing internships at the Seattle Mayor’s office and the Seattle Department of Human Resources Workforce Equity Division taught him to see the underpinnings of our economy, how money is allocated, and how staff are onboarded, treated, then fired or retired. Working at the Magnolia Chamber of Commerce and 10 independent study projects which were one on one with professors like Clayton Pierce with a PHD in education and Jack Herring Vice Provost of Western Washington University, taught him how businesses operate in a small community like Magnolia. What institutional issues small businesses face, the struggles of higher education, low fiscal standing, and biases of all types. These experiences and associated skills in combination with a recent degree in Educational Reconstruction from Western Washington University in June 2020 has forged a man who stands for our communities not because of economic prospects but because he understands how precarious we all stand in the preservation of them.  

Patrick Freeland, Acting Board Member

The foundational work ethic which form the values of Honor, Pride, and Respect, forms an holistic worldview in order to better the Self, our Nations, and our World. Patrick Freeland is from the Wind Clan of the Muscogee Creek Nation of Oklahoma (Hvtvltvlke Mvskoke); committed to action to promote the advancement of tribal, community, and educational institutions through the integration of plural knowledge systems, employing excellence in design, and promoting innovation through adaptation. Patrick serves as an advisor, and utilizes interdisciplinary sciences, arts, and engineering, as a means to improve human and environmental health, social advancement and optimization, and intercultural understanding through reconciliation. Patrick continues service, research, and professional development which centers on climate change adaptation and mitigation, noncognitive development in education, and advancement
of Indigenous Peoples through cultural sovereignty.

As a board member, Patrick specializes in organizational development, program mentorship, integrating social knowledge systems, and identifying potential intergovernmental policy opportunities, as well as strategic planning, assessment, and evaluation. Patrick's vocation incorporates knowledges in plural - transdisciplinary understanding and experience - in order to promote proactive change through community-based collaborative management and mentorship, with acknowledgement of healing and peace-making, community advancement through adaptive management, utilization of media and information technologies, and intercultural communication.

Ashley DeLatour, Acting Board Member

As a business owner, photographer, writer, parent, and human services professional Ashley DeLatour is determined to increase opportunity and foundations of well-being for those who are most under-served in Whatcom and Skagit County. Her strong drive for creating equitable systemic solutions in education and career access are informed by her research and work as a paraeducator, experience as a low-income student (yay scholarships/grants), graduate from WWU as a non-traditional student, and most recently as the Operations Manager for FuturesNW.

Having completed and having had access to advanced education, working for FuturesNW, and serving on the board of the Bootstraps Fund Ashley recognizes many systems and opportunities are reserved for privileged populations, and this isn’t okay. Ashley aims to improve awareness and resources for college and career pathways for others while acknowledging the unfair privilege that she had in achieving her college and career dreams. Through her work with the Community Reconstruction Collective, Ashley is driven to increase social capital for low-income and students of color, provide support/resources, and remove barriers in accessing employment during and after attending college.