Western States Center Board of Directors

Nicole LeFavour, Boise, ID (term begins 6/02) — elected to the Idaho
legislature in 2004, Nicole is a long-time social change organizer, and
educator specializing in teaching writing to at-risk youth in Boise Public
Schools. She has served as former Co-Chair of Your Family Friends and
Neighbors; as a state legislative lobbyist working on health care and
poverty issues for Idaho Community Action Network; as a Boise Area and
Nuclear Navy Train Watch Coordinator for the Snake River Alliance; and as
campaign staff for the 1994 No On One Campaign which defeated Idaho's
first and only anti-gay ballot initiative.

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		Sharon Gary Smith, Atlanta, GA (Emerita) — Sharon continues her lifelong commitment to racial and social justice through consultations with nonprofits and philanthropies. She is the former national programs director of the National Black Women's Health Project, and former National Programs Director of Be Present, Inc., a national organization dedicated to training black women and girls, other women of color, and white women, to work together to build a social change movement in a world where racism, classism, and homophobia still exist and historical barriers have divided us.
María González Mabbutt, Nampa ID - Maria worked as a farmworker advocate for more fifteen years and is a key leader in Idaho’s Latino community. She has coordinated the Idaho Latino Voter Education Project, and served on the boards of the Idaho Law Foundation, the Hispanic Women’s Organization, Mujeres Unidas de Idaho, the Idaho Hispanic Political Caucus and Idaho Women’s Network. Maria's work was recently recognized with an Alston/Bannerman Fellowship.
	Nicole LeFavour, Boise, ID (term begins 6/02) — elected to the Idaho legislature in 2004, Nicole is a long-time social change organizer, and educator specializing in teaching writing to at-risk youth in Boise Public Schools. She has served as former Co-Chair of Your Family Friends and Neighbors; as a state legislative lobbyist working on health care and poverty issues for Idaho Community Action Network; as a Boise Area and Nuclear Navy Train Watch Coordinator for the Snake River Alliance; and as campaign staff for the 1994 No On One Campaign which defeated Idaho's first and only anti-gay ballot initiative.
Scot Nakagawa, Portland OR - Scot is Grants and Program Manager at Social Justice Fund Northwest. Before moving to Oregon, Scot worked with Native Hawaiian and immigrant youth and families on the island of O'ahu. He was a founding staffperson of the Coalition for Human Dignity, and has worked as Fight the Right Project Organizer and Field Director for the National Gay and Lesbian Task; Force; Executive Director of the McKenzie River Gathering Foundation and Co-Director of Education for the Highlander Research and Education Center.
		. Ramon Ramirez, Woodburn OR (Chair) — president and founding member of Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste, Oregon’s farmworkers’ union, and board member of the Farmworker Housing Development Corporation
Leah Henry-Tanner, Bremerton, WA (Treasurer) — coordinator of United Indians of All Tribes Foundation's Native American Women's Dialogue on Infant Mortality		Not Pictured By Request
Lorna Vogt, Salt Lake City, UT - executive director of Utah Progressive Network and a 2001 graduate of Western State Center's WILD program.

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