Member Group: Our Board of Directors

Mary Verner joined the Board of Washington Water Trust in March 2025. Mary serves as Director of Ecology for the Snoqualmie Indian Tribe whose reservation and ancestral lands are considered to be within the state of Washington. Mary’s work includes policy level strategic planning to protect water supplies against over-appropriation and the effects of climate […]

Margaret Griffiths joined the Board of Washington Water Trust in January 2025. Margaret has over forty years of experience in working with, consulting to, and serving on the staffs and boards of a number of non-profit organizations, including arts organizations, global and clinical health groups, environmental education centers, and other organizations in the Pacific Northwest […]

Steven Malloch joined the Washington Water Trust Board in 2024. Steve brings technical, legal and political tools to bear on the problems of improving the environmental performance of large water systems, and on the looming problems of adapting to the water-related impacts of climate change. Steve is Principal with Western Water Futures, LLC, where his […]

Jessica C. Kuchan assists clients with the management, acquisition, transfer and adjudication of water rights. She represents a variety of clients, including non-profits, local government and private entities in Washington State. Prior to law school, Ms. Kuchan was an environmental scientist with the King County Department of Natural Resources. Ms. Kuchan has been featured as […]

Susan O’Neil joined the Washington Water Trust as a board member in 2023. She is a Senior Conservation Planner at Environmental Science Associates. With over 20 years of natural resource management experience in various sectors from non-profits to federal agencies, she currently focuses her practice in collaborative planning and strategic funding focused on open space […]

Sono Hashisaki joined Washington Water Trust as a Board member in 2022. Founder of Springwood Associates, Inc., she has decades of experience working in ecological restoration planning, permitting, and mitigation monitoring, natural resource assessment, and ecosystem recovery. Since 2000 she has worked extensively with Tribes in western Washington providing community-based strategic planning and retreat facilitation […]

Ben Eickhoff is a Wealth Advisor located in Seattle’s Wells Fargo Private Bank office. Mr. Eickhoff is responsible for working with high-net-worth clients to assist them in effectively managing their wealth. Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Mr. Eickhoff, worked at US Bank. He joined Wells Fargo in 2004. Prior to his current role he was […]

LaTrisha Suggs joined the Washington Water Trust as a board member in 2021. She is an enrolled Jamestown S’Klallam Tribal member, from the Cook-Kardonsky family. LaTrisha has been involved with natural resource issues throughout her career in Indian Country. Her work focus has been in environmental policy and planning since 2001. Her college intern project […]

Christie True joined the Washington Water Trust in July of 2021. Christie was appointed by King County Executive Dow to lead King County’s Department of Natural Resources and Parks (DNRP) in July 2010. The Department of Natural Resources and Parks has four major divisions – Parks and Recreation, Solid Waste, Wastewater Treatment and Water and […]