Meet The People Behind Change
Innovators of Opportunity for Washington
Rose Gomez
I was born in Coupville, Wa and spent my early childhood growing up in Spanaway. As a young child, I was expected to do many household chores, cooking, cleaning, gathering wood, cutting firewood for the winter, and more. When I was finally old enough to work, I got my...
From Mom to Advocate for Early Learning
I have raised seven children in eastern Washington and am embedded in the community. I have been a Director of an Early Learning Center, adjunct faculty, Education Manager and currently an Early Childhood Specialist contractor with the Office of Head Start in Idaho,...
Patrick Zuniga – Educator, Consultant, Humanist
Patrick Zuniga has earned diplomas from three different universities, and he has helped coach football teams who have won state championships, but he says the greatest thing he has ever received was "more time." In 2016, he was given a clean bill of health after...
Executive Director of King County GOP
I left 26 years of Corporate America behind to downsize my life, sell my car, cancel cable among other things to be able to dive into our local county party that I was volunteering in during covid. Covid gave me a chance to slow down in Corp America and become a PCO,...
Killian Noe and Recovery Cafe
Recovery Café is a membership-based long-term recovery support community founded on the truths that all are worthy of love and that being both known and loved is transformative. Recovery Café provides a beautiful drug- and alcohol-free space and community to anchor...
From Homeless to Homeowner & Business Owner, Heather Valencia
Opportunity isn't something that was handed to me in life. It was always something I had to reach out and get myself. I was dealt a very challenging hand in life that, in many ways, felt like I was living with a curse that was put upon one of my ancestors in a past...
The Partnership For Food & Community Security
The Partnership for Food Security is a voluntary association of individuals and organizations initiated to fight the COVID 19 virus attacks on the people and communities who plant, grow, raise, harvest, feed, transport, store, process and bring us our food. This pilot...
Maci Co. Design
Central Washington owned by 16 year old entrepreneur, Maci Youngquist, who was challenged by her parents during the Covid-19 pandemic’s first wave of school closures, to start her own business. Maci took out a business loan with her parents, bought some equipment and...
The people who created opportunity in the midst of darkness and now partner with us to create opportunity for others.