Deborah Rappaport

Deborah Rappaport

Deb Rappaport is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft on the datacenter supply chain team. Prior to this position, she was a Managing Partner at Velatrio, a tech staffing agency that she and her business partner sold in 2019. She grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah,...
Karla Rimmer

Karla Rimmer

Karla Rimmer is a Washington native, raised in Eastern Washington. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University, and has spent the intervening years in New York, North Carolina and Connecticut, along with two previous stints in Seattle. After a career working as a...
Jasmine Sears

Jasmine Sears

Jasmine Soria Sears grew up in Beaverton, Oregon. After receiving a B.S. in English from Caltech and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Optical Sciences from the University of Arizona, Jasmine returned to the Pacific Northwest to work on Augmented and Virtual Reality at Facebook,...
Amy Severson

Amy Severson

Hailing from Houston, Texas, Amy Severson moved to Seattle decades ago for a job opportunity. Although she still misses the Southern heat, she has enjoyed making the PNW her home. Amy has a BBA from TCU (Go Frogs!) and is an experienced business leader with over 20...
Molly Shearer

Molly Shearer

Molly grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and has lived in Seattle for almost 20 years. Along with her husband and their three kids, she lives in Madison Park and spends most of her time with her family enjoying a variety of sports and outdoor activities. After...
Christy Shiers

Christy Shiers

Christy currently lives on the south end of Mercer Island with her husband Brian, and two kids.  She moved to the Seattle area in 1992 after living in various locations throughout the country as the daughter of an NFL coach.  After attending University of Puget Sound...
Monica Stephenson

Monica Stephenson

Monica Stephenson chronicles stories of artisan jewelry designers on the award-winning jewelry blog, idazzle.com. In 2015 she launched ANZA Gems, which fuels development in Kenya and Tanzania through fair trade gem purchasing and supporting education in gemstone...
Janelle Stewart

Janelle Stewart

Janelle grew up in Yakima, WA, and then attended the University of California at Santa Barbara where she holds three majors. Janelle is now an accomplished professional with a strong track record of building successful revenue organizations within large companies like...
Waverly Swenson

Waverly Swenson

Waverly Swenson grew up on Mercer Island, and after years living and working around the country she is happy to be raising her family back in her hometown. After graduating from Syracuse University with a B.S. in Marketing she worked in Advertising Account Management...
Megan Tay

Megan Tay

Megan was born and raised in Bellevue and has a BA in Marketing from the University of Notre Dame. With over 25 years in the insurance industry, Megan currently works with Truluma, where she has been since 2006, in the disability brokerage arena designing leading-edge...