Naomi has been involved with Global Visionaries for several years. She traveled as a first-year participant in 2015, continued with GV as an Advanced Leadership Participant in 2016 and also came back in 2019 as a summer programs intern before joining the Board in 2020.
Seth joined the board in December 2019 and serves as in-house Corporate Counsel to Talking Rain Beverage Company, a local Pacific Northwest sparkling water company (and the makers of Sparkling Ice!). He also serves as a volunteer attorney for the Eastside Legal Assistance Program’s Domestic Violence Impact Project.
Roger Kastner is passionate about enabling leaders and teams to achieve greater success by helping them raise the caliber of their people and project leadership skills. Roger brings over 20 years of experience in Organizational Development and Project Management as a consultant, instructor, and facilitator.
Ryan is a long-standing supporter and board member for Global Visionaries and is currently serving as the Board Treasurer. Ryan works as the Finance Group Manager for CFS Finance Business Intelligence at Microsoft and lives with his family in West Seattle.
Adelaide Drury is a Senior in High School and has been a participant of Global Visionaries since 2019. As someone who has been involved with GV throughout the course of the past few years, Adelaide is committed to the role of being Historian/Secretary and to her involvement in the ALP Program.
Rachel is currently a Junior at Shorewood High school and joined the board in Fall 2021 after her summer immersion trip that summer. She is passionate about working with fellow youth to work towards a just and more sustainable future. She is a proud bi-racial student who is interested in science and engineering but is invested in social justice and equity in her community.
Aubrey Spielholz is a Senior at Seattle Academy and has been a part of Global Visionaries for 3 years. She believes in the mission of GV because it aligns with her own values, to maintain and promote global connections through youth leadership and empowerment.
Crystal is a certificated bilingual educator with experience in teaching within elementary, middle and high schools. She also has her TEFL Certificate (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) which allowed her to contract a position with The Ministry of Education as an English Teacher in Colombia. Once there, she received supplementary training from UNICA (La Institución Universitaria Colombo Americana) as a foreign language teacher. In the States, she received her Master's Degree.
Manny joined the Board in 2020. He currently works as the Senior Business Analyst, Infrastructure Supply Chain & Procurement Analytics (ISCAP) for Amazon Web Services.
Mila is a English Language Learner teacher and Department Head at a high school in South Seattle. She traveled with Global Visionaries as a participant in 2007 and returned as a trip leader in 2021. Upon her return, she was excited at the opportunity to join GV’s board of directors and continue working to support the program.
Andrea Tobon joined the Board in 2021 and currently works in finance at Amazon. Born in Colombia, Andrea has a passion for working with cultural exchange programs in Central America.