Meet the Board

Julie Holland
President

Julie moved to Seattle and the South Lake Union neighborhood from Los Angeles in 2017. Seattle has quickly become home. Julie earned a Bachelor of Biochemistry and MBA in Finance, which led to a business career spanning technical, marketing, and executive management positions. Her experience has largely been with early-stage companies introducing new products using new technology in fields such as medical instrumentation and software. There are two exceptions. She was responsible for the successful fund raising and development of a business incubator at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona that initiated the development of its successful 56-acre technology park. The last five years of her career were spent at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center launching a Technology Transfer Program.

Stacy Segal

Vice President

Stacy (she/her) has lived in Seattle for 18 years after moving from Chicago. Stacy and her husband have been residents and homeowners in South Lake Union since 2009 and have witnessed firsthand the tremendous growth and change. Stacy enjoys urban living and has an appreciation for architecture and Seattle’s diverse parks and neighborhoods. You can also find her venturing outside of the city for hiking or travel adventures whenever she can.

Stacy has a background in non-profit management and has worked at the YMCA of Greater Seattle and the Seattle Architecture Foundation (SAF). She has worked in the areas of housing and homelessness, arts and culture and the environment. Her strengths include building community partnerships, fostering leadership among volunteers and capital campaign management. She currently works in philanthropy for the Seattle Parks Foundation.

Geoff Eseltine
Secretary

Geoff serves as the Director of Outdoor Leadership for the YMCA of Greater Seattle. Through his work he engages youth, families, and adults in environmental education and outdoor adventures that build leadership skills, support social-emotional learning, and cultivate community. Geoff grew up in Vermont and has been based in the Cascade neighborhood of Seattle since 2012. As the South Lake Union area has changed over the last ten years he has been an avid supporter of efforts to activate and connect people to parks, gardens, and outdoor spaces. In addition to his work with the Y, he has served in an advisory role for Woodland Park Zoo’s Seattle Youth Climate Action Now, Nature Consortium, and the University of Washington Youth Environmental Education Network.

Paul Wohnoutka Treasurer

A local resident since 1988, Paul joined the Allen Institute in 2003 and has held leadership positions in facility development and operations most notably shaping the ground up design and 2015 occupancy of the Institute’s new headquarters in the South Lake Union neighborhood.  Paul is also a member of the Lake Union Village Community Advisory Committee reviewing operations, social services, needs and concerns for 42 tiny houses fully occupied by those experiencing homelessness. 

Rebecca Bryant

After graduating from the University of Puget Sound, Rebecca served as Congressman Adam Smith’s Political Director and Communications Director where she developed and maintained critical relationships with local media, business associations, grassroots advocacy organizations, and not-for profit organizations. Rebecca now works for Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center where she supports the Vice President of Government and Community Relations by serving as a liaison to community groups, civic organizations, and local elected officials to promote the Fred Hutch mission of eliminating cancer and related diseases as causes of human suffering and death. In her personal life, she is pursuing a Master of Health Administration from George Washington University, is a member of the Board of Directors for HomeSight, as well as a co-chair of the Seattle Women’s Commission.

Josh Anderson

Josh Anderson is the Executive Director at the Center for Wooden Boats, a role in which he has served since 2020.  He first started working in the SLU neighborhood in 2016 when he moved across the country from Maine where he was a professional wooden boatbuilder, to work at CWB in its historic floating boatshop.  He’s been involved in numerous community projects focused on maritime access, especially on Lake Union and helped open the Wagener Education Center in Lake Union Park in 2018. He holds a BSBA from Boston University, a Masters in Maritime Management and International Logistics from Maine Maritime Academy, Certificate in Nonprofit Management from the University of Washington, and studied as an apprentice boatbuilder at the Apprenticeshop in Rockland, Maine. 

Jill Wiggins

Jill Wiggins leads the Community Marketing effort for Fearey, which supports our region’s largest employer in their efforts to be a community partner, resource provider, and coalition builder across the company’s South Lake Union headquarters in Seattle and beyond. It’s a role that perfectly suits this senior leader who has worked to build relationships, reputation, and revenue across the fields of sports, events, and broadcast media throughout her career.

A Southern California native, Jill has called the Pacific Northwest home for more than 20 years. She left commuting on the 110 Freeway, spending time at SouthBay beaches, and going to USC football games for urban living in Greenlake, listening to live music, and wearing her USC gear at Husky football games.

Andrea Vanecko

For over 40 years Andrea Vanecko has been actively engaged in the Commercial and Corporate design marketplace. As a Principal with NBBJ, she pursues her passion for bringing thoughtful solutions to problems, assuring her clients and our communities are investing wisely for the long-term while providing tangible results in the immediate.

This passion is grounded in the belief that well designed environments improve the quality of life. And everyone deserves and is entitled to this as a basic human need.

It is also grounded in the belief that we should care for our global environment, most by assuring we are designing for longevity. Do it once and do it right.

To successfully achieve these aspirations requires integrated and collaborative efforts. As a result, she has dedicated time and focus to developing communication tools that draw participants in and assure people’s needs, fears and aspirations are being heard and addressed.