Gideon Rosenblatt

Executive Director
Since joining the organization in early 2001, Gideon has led ONE/Northwest toward an increased focus on communication and citizen engagement services and on programs aimed at strengthening cross-organizational ties within the environmental movement. His Movement as Network paper serves as the framework for much of this latter work.

Before joining ONE/Northwest, Gideon held a variety of senior management positions in marketing and product development over ten years at Microsoft. While there he pioneered some of the company’s earliest work on the Internet and founded CarPoint, one of Microsoft's most successful consumer businesses. He received his MBA in marketing from the Wharton School in 1991 after several years doing business consulting in China.

email: gideon at onenw.org
phone: 206.286.1235 x12
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David Averill

Program Manager
Like muscled salmon, Dave watches over schools of technology projects drifting gracefully upstream to their home waters. (Sorry, I paid a lot for that English Major, so I have to try.) Since 2002, David has been managing our fee-for-service consultancy. He works closely with outreach staff, technical staff and consultants with an eye toward sustainablity, quality and fun. Dave has a career peppered with a variety of do-gooder work. He was a National Program Manager for Community Voice Mail , Case Manager at Northwest AIDS Foundation(Lifelong AIDS Alliance) and as an organizer for Montana Human Rights Network.

Dave lives in Seattle with his wife (Kelly)and three children (Owen, Mairead and Keegan). When not saving the world one technology project at a time, Dave plays with his kids, and looks forward to his next cup of Fair Trade Coffee.

email: david at onenw.org
phone: 206.286.1235 x18

Steve Andersen

Database Program Manager
Steve is a transplant from the Midwest, and is thriving after 11 years in the Northwest's moist, mild environment. While database consulting doesn't seem like an obvious outgrowth of his BA in Biology from Carleton College, Steve can connect the dots for people willing to listen. His most recent job was with NPower in Seattle, where he cut his teeth working with technology with nonprofits.

Steve's children, Malcolm and Louise, are taking just about all the parenting Steve and his wife Beth can muster right now. His current passions outside work and family are: bike commuting, eating, sleeping, and blogging about his job.

email: steve at onenw.org
phone: 206.286.1235 x17

Jon Baldivieso

Senior Developer
Jon tries to save the websites of the Northwest environmental community from the 1990s -- he (along with Andrew) makes websites behave the way they should and look their best using the Open Source content management system Plone. He is an active member of Portland's Plone User Group

After graduating from Williams College (hot on the heels of Jon Stahl), he spent two years putting databases online for the Environmental Working Group. When the East Coast humidity became wholly unbearable (he grew up in Pennsylvania), he packed up the wagon and hit the Oregon Trail. After spending a year learning the moves by consulting for ONE/Northwest, Jon officially joined the Portland office in 2004.

During precious moments not behind a computer screen, Jon can be found with his wife doing some combination of climbing, skiing, eating, and hiking.

email: jonb at onenw.org
phone: 503.222.5064

Drew Bernard

Oregon Program Manager
Drew's great grandchildren will live in a time of human harmony with nature. Their parents will make day-to-day choices using knowledge of natural laws their great grandparents' generation wasted time bickering about. Their grandmother and grandfather, like the generations before them, will make decisions that will shape the world for generations to come. At the moment however, they (Drew's daughter and son) are mostly focused on learning to hop like frogs, draw cats and dogs, and use the big boy potty.

Drew founded and continues to manage the Portland office of ONE/Northwest.  In addition to helping us more effectively serve groups in Oregon and southwest Washington, his leadership has helped us to transform our consulting practices and tools around strategy consulting, messaging/framing, and to complete some of our first significant coalition projects, such as the Clear Voices bill tracking solution.  He writes about stuff he's seeing and thinking about that relate to online strategy on his blog and twitter.

During the previous decade, Drew was involved in a variety of entrepreneurial endeavors, including co-founding a furniture company in Seattle, product managing a multi-node fail-over clustering solution for Windows NT, and helping develop a software product for small businesses. Drew graduated from the University of Washington where he studied marketing. He and his wife Sara are also Partners in Social Venture Partners – Portland. Staff member since 2002.

email: drew at onenw.org
phone: 503.222.5064

Kelley Bevans

Kelley comes to ONE/Northwest after working more than seven years in the decision analysis software industry, focusing on web integration and IT project management. Previously in pursuit of a PhD in political science, she atoned for not finishing her dissertation at New York University by working as a volunteer for the Washington State Howard Dean campaign and now continues her progressive political activism in her community, in Washington State and online on a variety of local blogs.

Kelley is looking forward to flexing her Manhattan-honed bicycling skills in downtown Seattle.

email: kelley at onenw.org
phone: 206.286.1235 x26

Andrew Burkhalter

Program Manager

Andrew came to ONE/Northwest as a volunteer from a little town called Goshen, Indiana. He graduated from Goshen College in December of 2001 with a double major in computer science and musicology. At ONE/Northwest he helps implement a growing number of impressive website projects and helps manage the Powering Voices program work of the organization.

Andrew has difficulty maintaining his sanity in the constant balancing act of his personal hobbies. He enjoys playing/dreaming about soccer, reading books for nerds, co-running the Seattle Plone user group, aspiring to get better at guitar, biking, listening to music, spending time with a certain someone from Grist, and gettin' out in the nature. He sometimes dreams about what it might be like to have one lifetime for each of his hobbies, but he does the best he can with his spare time.

email: andrewb at onenw.org
phone: 206.286.1235 x 16

Lyrr Descy

Manager, Grants and Foundation Relations

An ardent humanist and environmentalist, Lyrr brings an international perspective to social and environmental change, having lived in five countries on three continents.  Born of French parentage and educated in South Africa, Lyrr’s professional life has straddled the first and third worlds and streams of consciousness — involving storytelling in various guises.

She abandoned the privileges of Apartheid to raise her three sons in Brussels, where for nine years she worked as a translator in a pan-European NGO before flopping like a Northwest salmon on the parched banks of the Arizona Canal in Phoenix — with predictable results.  It took eight years for her to find her way to a more hospitable habitat — time spent getting a master’s degree in theatre and working as an actor and director.  She first began proposal writing in her capacity as artistic director of the Arizona Shakespeare Festival in the mid 1990s.

The call of the Northwest was unmistakable, and she arrived in Seattle in September 1997.  She took the plunge into a new stream of consciousness which pushed her towards progressive causes and full-time grantwriting.  Since then she has thrived in mission-driven organizations, most recently at Planned Parenthood.  Henceforth, Lyrr will be telling and selling the story of the environmental movement and how ONE/Northwest can be a catalyst for change.
email: lyrr at onenw.org
phone: 206.286.1235 x14

Tiffany Devoy

Individual Giving Manager

Tiffany hails from cold, cold Minneapolis, where she stayed long enough to graduate from the University of Minnesota before heading west in search of warmer climes. She has since spent over 10 years fundraising in and for the Seattle non-profit community, including King County Sexual Assault Resource Center, Hanford nuclear watchdogs Heart of America Northwest, and The Community Abortion Information Resource Project.

Tiffany's strong commitment to social and environmental justice brought her to ONE/Northwest in early 2006. Her free time is spent reading obscure gothic novels and planning her dream vacation.

email: tiffany at onenw.org
phone: 206.286.1235 x13

David Glick

David joins ONE/Northwest as the newest Midwest import, Goshen College graduate, and Mennonite volunteer (moving him further along his quest to recreate Andrew's life history).  David helps customize Plone to meet the requirements of our website projects.

 Before coming to ONE/Northwest, David worked on content management software at Mennonite.net and digital signage management software at RedPost, while finishing off his physics degree (after dabbling in history for a couple years).  However, his programming experience extends back to the creation of Cowtris in ninth grade and playing with Visual Basic at age 8.  When not sitting at his computer, you might find David practicing the hammered dulcimer, hiking, biking, or studying languages.

email: davidglick at onenw.org

Joey Gray

Born in Olympia, Joey's environmental values were instilled early as an original Department of Ecology litter critter. Then in elementary school, she sent her first activist letter to a candy company. She urged them to change the new plastic wrappers back to paper so they wouldn't last forever on the ground, where people still tossed trash. The response? Alas, free candy coupons, which she promptly used!

Joey honed her community organizing skills as co-founder of DiscNW, the Potlatch ultimate tournament, national and international mixed (co-ed) ultimate celebrations and championships, as Friends of Athletic Fields board member and Executive Director of the Ultimate Players Association, earning degrees in International Studies, German, and Library & Information Science along the way. Her fascination with chaos, order, simplicity and complexity in rule systems has led to and been informed by bureaucratic adventures in Switzerland, Germany, Canada, and at the UW.

After organizing, playing, and coaching self-regulated sport around the world, she joined ONE/Northwest in 2007 to act as a bridge between program management and its growing database consulting program. She draws on work experience as diverse as information systems consultant, academic advisor, Congressional intern and REI bicycle department employee. Joey recognizes the Coast Salish people and her grandmother's ancestors in the Okanagan and Manitoba, she plays with paradox, and seeks balance in extremely moderate ways.

email: joey at onenw.org

Shawn Kemp

After many years in the high tech corporate jungle of Microsoft, leading innovation in online experiences for such well know products as Windows, Xbox, and Microsoft.com Shawn is thrilled to return to his passion of making the world a better place.

After setting a world record for crossing the American continent in a Solar Car he helped design and build, Shawn went on to pursue a career in Industrial Design. This quickly morphed into defining meaningful experiences and engagements with customers using the emerging World Wide Web.  Over the years Shawn has helped shape the thinking around the engagement paradigms for sites that have touched hundreds of millions of people around the world. He is now super excited to apply this expertise to an area were the goal is not to sell products but rather to affect change that ultimately makes our planet a better place.

After fleeing the hustle and bustle of Seattle in 2006, Shawn his wife (Misty) and dog (Jax) now call Bellingham home. They spend time exploring the natural beauty of the area, enjoying life, and helping to build a strong local community. 

email: shawn at onenw.org

Sam Knox

Project Associate/Lead Trainer

Sam has been with ONE/Northwest since December 2005. He has extensively documented many of the online tools used by ONE/Northwest and their clients such as Plone, What Counts, and Action Studio. He is now focused on delivering training to clients and supporting program staff on project work.

Sam is working to finish his Bachelor's degree at the University of Washington Program on the Environment. It is a multi-disciplinary degree designed to give a broad education about environmental issues in key areas such as Restoration Ecology, Natural Resources, and International Perspectives. He is also pursuing a minor in Environmental Science and Resource Management.

email: sam at onenw.org

phone: 206.286.1235 x21

Dave Manelski

CRM Consultant

Joining the ONE/Northwest team in the Spring of 2008, Dave brings his experience in nonprofit communications, outreach, & fundraising to the fore.  A self-proclaimed technology experimenter, he honed his skills at his previous employer -- Earth Share of Washington -- designing & developing their website, managing an overhaul of their database, and connecting with an inspiring community of Washington conservation leaders. 

Dave was elected to the board of the Bicycle Alliance of Washington in February 2008.  As an everyday bicycle commuter, he is passionate about promoting cycling as the ultimate form of transportation and recreation.

Dave and his wife, Suzanne, welcomed their first child (Alex) in March 2008.  Prior to becoming a parent, Dave enjoyed numerous outdoor pursuits.  He now spends his time away from work changing diapers, catching up on sleep, and testing baby carriers... although he looks forward to getting outside again soon.

email: davem at onenw.org

Sean Pender

Office Manager
In the battle between salty and sweet snack foods, Sean comes down decisively on the side of salty. Homemade beef jerky being one favorite and chips, cheese and salsa being another fave.  Sean has been at ONE/Northwest since 2001. He has a degree in Political Science from Western Washington University with an emphasis on Public Policy and Administration and previously worked at the Washington Environmental Council and doing fundraising for a gubernatorial candidate who has since gone on to bigger and better things. At ONE/Northwest Sean is responsible for day to day management of the office; it's safe to consider him the HR, Accounts Payable, and Accounts Receivable departments at ONE/Northwest. Additionally, he provides some help with our email list hosting services, with fundraising and with the intersection of our programs and our bookkeeping practices. Sean and his wife Lori have one daughter: Corinne, who told Sean that he talks about monkeys too often. Sean likes to exercise (biking, running or hiking) so that he can eat whatever he wants whenever he wants.  

email: sean at onenw.org
phone: 206.286.1235 x11

Matthew Scholtz

Database Consultant

The founding (and only) member of the Bellingham field office, Matthew is a long-time collaborator and friend who is now very happy to be part of the  ONE/Northwest tribe.   His diabolical plan: to get organizations set up with databases that fit their mission and methods, not the other way around.

Originally hailing from a state south of here that we won't mention (it's not Oregon), he went to school in New Mexico, and boldly claims the title of least tech-related college degree.  After a stint in the Arizona asphalt desert (sure does appreciate the rain and green around here), he has spent the last seven years as a rogue database consultant for hire (by non-profits only) in Washington and San Francisco.  He has also served as designer, programmer, and advisor to a few well-known open source database projects.

He is now walking the tricky but exhilarating tightrope of dividing his time between ONE/Northwest and his continuing independent practice, mostly in the North Puget Sound area.

He is immoderately happily married to Aubri, and plays the accordion. 

Jon Stahl

Program Manager
Jon roams the nonprofit technology landscape like a woolly mammoth.   The last of the founding cohort of ONE/Northwest staffers, Jon has been with the organization since 1996, shortly after Al Gore sent the first email message. 

Over the past eleven years, he has worked with hundreds of Northwest conservation organizations on projects that range from strategic communications planning to running ethernet cable through basements. Currently, he manages consulting projects, charts ONE/Northwest's technology innovation agenda and thinks big thoughts. 

In October 2007, Jon was elected the board of the Plone Foundation, where he helps to nurture the community and codebase of the world's best open-source content management.  He also serves on the board of Eco Encore.

Jon spends his spare time reading, taking photographs, telemark skiing, playing ultimate frisbee and strumming an acoustic guitar.  He is currently the newlywedliest ONE/Northwest-er.

email: jon at onenw.org
phone: 206.286.1235 x15

Karen Uffelman

Program Manager

Along with a disconcertingly extensive knowledge of country western song lyrics from the late 70's and early 80's, Karen brings significant expertise in membership engagement, coalition building, fundraising, and asking questions. She is an eternal optimist, loves the rain, and suffers from a serious cookbook addiction.  Karen’s first real job was managing a performing arts center called New City Theater. Other previous credits include Development Director for Corporate Accountability International, Associate Director of Washington Environmental Alliance for Voter Education (WEAVE), and Managing Director of Washington Conservation Voters.

When she's not at work, you can find her at Pratt in the printmaking studio, studying flamenco, practicing fiddle, baking pies, climbing mountains, digging in her garden, or riding her super-spiff Salsa Casseroll. Karen lives in South Seattle with her partner Scott, two cats, and way too many bicycles.

email: karen at onenw.org
phone: 206.286.1235 x-20

Veda Williams

Project Manager / Designer

A transplant from North Carolina in 2007, Veda is the Swiss Army Knife of web consultants. She helps coax web projects through from their genesis to their finished state. She possesses a wide swath of skills, ranging from project management, Plone-specific web design, documentation, skinning, training, and more. She previously worked for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on a large number of Plone websites, which gave her the chops she needs to do the job as an all-around Plone professional. She brings that knowledge plus more than 17 years of software development / design / project management to ONE/Northwest.

Although she misses the death-defying rush of caring for her beloved tigers in North Carolina, she tries to content herself with her four ornery housecats and getting acquainted with the dark underbelly of Seattle and giving back wherever she can.

email: veda at onenw.org
phone: 206-286-1235