Board Members

Kathe Fowler, Chair

Kathe grew up in the Big Sky state of Montana before moving to Seattle to finish her last two years at Garfield High.  She attended University of Washington and City University and finished with a BS in Business Administration.  Kathe was formerly a Regional Sales Manager at AT&T and Verizon.  A graduate of Leadership Institute, she has been active in the non-profit community since 1991.  Kathe worked extensively on 3 legislative campaigns before joining the King County Chapter of Washington Conservation Voters.  After serving two years she joined the state board where she has been chairperson since January 2006.  She also serves on the board of Washington Wildlife Recreation Coalition.

Kathe can usually be found outdoors on her bike or hiking and has completely bonded with the Methow Valley community where she has had a home since 1986.

Eileen Quigley, Vice-Chair

Eileen is the President and Executive Director of Qvisory. Previously she served as Chief of Staff to the Chairman of the Board of Air America Radio. From 1997-2003, Eileen ran the Nonprofit Affairs division of RealNetworks, Inc., which oversaw WebActive, a website that gave voice to progressive political and social opinion, news, and activism on the Internet; the RealNetworks Foundation, the vehicle through which the company gave away five percent of its net profits; and RealImpact, a consulting service created to help the progressive community use the Internet for social and political change.

Prior to her varied and extensive nonprofit work in the Puget Sound area, Eileen wrote political, business, and feature stories for the Los Angeles Times and three weekly columns for the National Journal. She covered the 1984 presidential election as an off-air reporter-researcher for NBC News in New York. 

Eileen has served on numerous nonprofit boards and civic taskforces in the Puget Sound region. Eileen received a Master of Science in Journalism from Columbia University after completing her undergraduate degree at Yale University.

Marc Daudon, Treasurer

Marc, Principal and co-founder of Cascadia Consulting Group, has over 25 years of management consulting experience related to environmental issues. He oversees Cascadia’s Environmental Policy and Planning practice area. Marc’s experience in strategic planning and facilitation empowers organizations and governments both locally and abroad to achieve consensus around an environmentally sound and economically viable public policy programs. This experience includes developing a sustainability action plan for Washington State, biodiversity conservation plans for Washington and Tanzania, comprehensive waste management policies for multiple jurisdictions, and national energy plans for Sudan and Pakistan.

Marc has a master’s degree in Public and Private Management from Yale University’s School of Management.

Jeff Albertson, Secretary

Jeff Albertson was born and raised in Bellevue, WA. A Senior Technical Product Manager at Microsoft, Jeff applies his expertise in digitial media technology and operating systems for consumer electronics. Earlier in his career he worked for RealNetworks, CNN and then-US Representative Maria Cantwell. Jeff is a graduate of Middlebury College with a degree in Political Science.

Jeff chairs the board of the University Street Ministry, co-founded University Youth Shelter. He’s an outfielder for the Pirates of the Puget Sound Senior Baseball League and enjoys exploring Cape Alava in the Olympic National Park in his free time. Jeff lives in Seattle with his partner, Benjamin Vogt and their chocolate Labrador retriever and a cat.

Ken Lederman, Political Committee Chair

Ken is a principal at the law firm Riddell Williams. He has extensive experience in environmental litigation. From 1998 through 2002, Ken served as an Assistant Attorney General representing the Washington State Department of Ecology. He is a graduate Rutgers University and Seattle University School of Law.

Ken is on the Executive Committee of the Washington Conservation Voters board, serving as the Chair of the Political Committee. Ken has served on the Legal Committee for the Washington Environmental Council since 1994. Ken serves as a Cooperating Attorney to Futurewise, and has litigated several successful appeals under the Growth Management Act.  He also serves on the Editorial Board for the Environmental & Land Use Law Section of the Washington State Bar Association.   In 2007 he was named one of the Puget Sound Business Journal's "40 Under 40."

Ken and his wife, Meredith, and their daughter, Alexandra, live in the Montlake neighborhood of Seattle.  They enjoy hiking and snowshoeing in the North Cascades, and they love their time in the natural areas of the Long Beach Peninsula. 

Len Barson, Development Committee Chair

Bio coming soon.

Bruce Agnew, Member

Since 1993, Bruce Agnew has been the Director of the Cascadia Center. The center is a strategic alliance from Vancouver, BC, to Eugene, Oregon, promoting high speed passenger rail, Interstate-5 freight mobility, seamless border crossings, bi-national and bi-state tourism marketing, and sustainable community development.

From 1987-93, Mr. Agnew was Chief of Staff for U.S. Representative John Miller from Washington state's first district. Before his congressional service, Bruce Agnew was elected to two terms on the Snohomish County Council, and served as President of the Puget Sound Regional Council in 1985. He is a former member of the Citizen Oversight Panel for Sound Transit, and is a member of the Regional Freight Mobility Roundtable.

Mr. Agnew is a graduate of Stanford University and U.C. Berkeley School of Law.

Peggy Duxbury, Member

Peggy Duxbury works on external affairs for Seattle City Light and spends most of her days working on polices to promote actions to combat global warming.  Prior to moving to Seattle in 2006, she lived in Colorado where she served on the Colorado Conservation Voters board and held a day job as vice president of government and environmental affairs for Calpine Corporation.  Before that, she worked in Washington, DC as both a Congressional aide and as a policy advisor for President Clinton’s Council of Sustainable Development.  She was a research fellow at Harvard Business School where she helped develop a curriculum for the MBA program on environmental management and holds a bachelor degree from Old Dominion University and a master’s degree from Harvard University.

Peggy discovered her passion for the outdoors and the environment during childhood summers spent in Glacier National Park and sailing on the Chesapeake Bay.  Sadly, she has witnessed first hand Glacier's shrinking glaciers over the decades.  She is an avid hiker, sailor and cyclist and world traveler.

Peter Goldman, Member

A graduate of Seattle University Law School, Peter was a law clerk for the late Justice James M. Dolliver in the Washington State Supreme Court. Peter worked for eleven years in the criminal division of the King County Prosecutor’s office where he was promoted to Senior Deputy.

Peter founded the Washington Forest Law Center, a non-profit public interest environmental law firm.  Peter is also heavily involved in efforts to develop and promote progressive forestry policies. He and his wife Martha founded the Kongsgaard-Goldman Foundation in 1988, a leading environmental foundation. He is also very active in assisting Democrats in federal, state, and local races. He has served on the boards of numerous non-profit organizations including the Rails to Trails Conservancy and the Anti-Defamation League.

Peter and Martha have three boys, ages 18, 16 and 13.  Peter has been a bicycle commuter his whole life.  In his spare time, Peter loves to bike, climb, ski, and hike.  He has climbed Broad Peak, an 8000 meter peak in the Himalayas, and has climbed big mountains around the world. 

Kurt Guenther, Member

Kurt is the founder of Guenther Media and brings more than 20 years of national experience to the Washington Conservation Voters board. His work includes serving as creative coordinator for Clinton-Gore in ’92, the first ever branding campaign for AmeriCorps, and work with political innovators for campaigns across the nation.

Kurt is a founder of doingsomething , an all-volunteer network featured in the national media, two-term member of the Partner Board at his children's public school, chair of communications for the board of the Washington Environmental Council, and a baseball/swimming/soccer dad. Kurt attended Occidental College and Boston University, where he graduated from the School of Public Communication with graduate work in advocacy. He lives with his wife, two children and a nice dog named Ty in Seattle.

Tony Peacock, Member

Tony was born and raised in Iowa and became active on environmental issues as a teenager when he worked to protect vanishing native prairies. Tony is the Chief Operations Officer for a Alpha Subdivision Pro's Inc, a land survey company. Tony is a graduate of University of Iowa with a Degree in Physical Geography. He and his partner Ann moved to Washington in 1982.

Tony’s involvement in the Washington environmental community began with a response to a postcard from a group looking for volunteers back in the early 90s. The group evolved into Washington Conservation Voters and Tony’s volunteering led to him becoming a founding member of the King County Chapter of Washington Conservation Voters and he continues his leadership as a member of the State Board. Tony also serves on the board of Washington Environmental Council.

Tony is an avid sea kayaker and has been paddling and camping in the costal wilderness areas in Washington, British Columbia and Alaska for 25 years. His greatest joy has been the time spent in the company of Orca in the wild.

Lisa Pelly, Member

Lisa has been active in statewide efforts to address the enhancement and protection of fish and wildlife habitat and water resources on private and public lands.  Lisa currently serves as the Director of Washington Rivers Conservancy, a Wenatchee based organization dedicated to working with local communities to enhance stream flows through voluntary and market-based solutions. She is a board member of the Washington Wildlife and Recreation Coalition, Farming and the Environment, and Washington Environmental Council.  She previously served 11 years as a member of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Commission.  Lisa attended the University of California at San Diego and the University of Washington.  She enjoys hiking and fishing throughout the state of Washington.

Mike Vaska, Member

Mike grew up in Redmond, Washington when its single stoplight was the only monopoly in town. Mike's father was a Russian immigrant who, as a young boy, was separated from his family by the Nazi's to serve as forced labor. The first in his family to go to college, Mike attended Stanford. Mike is a member practicing antitrust law and business litigation at Seattle's Foster Pepper & Shefelman.  Mike is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School.

For more than a decade, Mike has been a leader on transportation issues in the Puget Sound region. He led a coalition of business, civic and environmental groups who reshaped the region's light rail transit plan, then campaigned successfully for voter approval. Since the election, Mike has chaired the joint Seattle Chamber–Downtown Seattle Association Task Force on Light Rail, and served on Sound Transit's Project Review Committee.

Mike was Treasurer for Referendum 49--a measure placed on the ballot by the Legislature and passed by the voters--that funded more than $2 billion in highway projects. He served on the Steering Committee for the Washington Transportation Alliance, a coalition of labor and business working for transportation solutions. Mike is also the Republican Member of the King County Redistricting Committee and a board member of the Chief Seattle Council.

Mike lives on Cougar Mountain with his wife and two boys, and likes to climb, ski and play soccer whenever he gets a chance.

Mark Walsh, Member

Mark Walsh serves as Chief Operating Officer for The Schuster Group, a prestigious green real estate investment management and development firm headquartered in Seattle.  Mark has over 20 years of real estate investment management experience and oversees all operations for the company.  Over the course of his career, he has been responsible for $1 billion in assets in the Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington DC, and Indianapolis markets. Mark holds a Masters in Business Administration in Finance and Marketing from the University of Southern California and a Bachelors of Arts in Economics/Business from the University of California, Los Angeles. 

Mark and his wife of 22 years have two children and reside in Federal Way.  They are an active family that spends their free time skiing, hiking the Olympics and traveling.