Community Partnership List
This is a list of individuals or organizations that Community Engagement Fellows are currently, actively collaborating with in a variety of capacities. The goal of this list is to reveal potential partnerships within the program, support new opportunities to collaborate, or discover shared partnerships that already exist.
Troy Abel
EPA
Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition
Puget Sound Clean Air Agency
Washington Chapter of the American Lung Association
King County Public Health
Georgetown Neighborhood Association
South Park Neighborhood Association
Sura Al-Qudah
BAAY – Bellingham Arts Academy for Youth (Damian Cade)
Wise Buys Thrift Store (Nancy Long)
Western Associated Student Bookstore (Peg Goodwin)
Doug Banner
Bellingham School District: Various Schools
Allied Arts of Whatcom County (Kelly Hart)
The Flow Project (Doug Banner)
Re-Threads (Katie Bordan)
The Great Balance (Ham Hayse)
The Bellingham Storytellers Guild (Kelvin Saxton)
Bellingham Library System (Donna Gotschaulk)
Anna Booker
WWU Journalism Department (Brad Howard, ArcGIS technical support)
History Department, WWU (Chris Friday , Advisory)
Working Waterfront Coalition (Debbie Granger)
Director of Heritage Resources, WWU (Elizabeth Joffrion)
Whatcom Museum, Photo Archives (Jeff Jewell)
City of Bellingham Planning and Community Development (Katie Franks)
Port of Bellingham (Michael Hogan)
Center for Pacific Northwest Studies (Ruth Steele)
Whatcom Community College Research Intern (Sarah Yates)
Indigenous Education and Coast Salish Institute, Northwest Indian College (Dean Sharon Kinley)
Setsuko Buckley
WCC Division 2 Arts & Humanities (Bob Winters, Chair)
WCC Division 4 Social Sciences (Guy Smith, Chair)
WCC History (Ian Stacy)
WCC History/Political Science Faculty (Mary Huberman)
WCC World Languages Chair (Angela Enderberg)
WWU Huxley College
Gustavo Camacho
Bellingham Chamber Music Society
Fifth Inversion Ensemble
Bellingham House Concerts
WWU Music Department
Jeremy Cushman
Bellingham Music Club
Western Washington Girl Scouts
Communities in Schools
Growing Veterans
Kate Darby
Bellingham Food Bank’s Garden Project (Julia Raider)
LEAD – Learning Environment Action Discovery (Wendelin Dunlap)
Heather Davidson
WWU Front Door to Discovery (Daniel Purdy)
WWU Alumni Foundation
Western Foundation
Downtown Bellingham Partnership
We Are WWU
Ryan Dudenbostel
Whatcom Symphony Orchestra
Bellingham Festival of Music
Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra
Kelli Evans
Speech-language pathologists practicing in community medical settings
Julie Filer
The Resilience Institute
Red Cross
SMATE
The Physics Department (Andrew Boudreaux)
The Port of Bellingham
Jada Ginnett
Peacehealth St. Joseph’s Medical Center
Hospice House
Peacehealth Obstetrics Clinic
Rainbow Recovery Center
Job Corps
Joe Gosen
Salish Sea Sustainable
Whatcom Council on Aging
San Juan Island Distillery
WWU Center for Service-Learning
Tacoma News-Tribune
Skagit Valley Herald
The Daily Herald (Everett)
Canoe & Kayak Magazine
Block 52 (artisan group in the Alley District of Bellingham)
Todd Haskell
Brigid Collins Family Support Center
Sterling Meadows
Bellingham Technical College (GED program)
Bradley Howard
Spatial Institute, Environmental Studies (Stefan Freelan, Assistant Director)
ATUS (Susan Brown, Manager of Software and Technical Documentation)
Penny Hutchinson
Kokila Hariram School of Modern Dance, Russian Centre Chennai S. India
Dr. K.S. Balasubramanian, Kuppuswamy Sastri Research Institute, Chennai (Sanskrit scholar) KSRI
Dr T.V. Vasudevi (Sanskrit scholar) KSRI Chennai
Usha Vasanthkumar and Krishna Chari-dance teachers, Chennai
Nabil Kamel
Border Policy Research Institute
Salish Sea Institute
Canadian-American Studies Center
Library
Environmental Science Department, Huxley
North American Integration and Development Center, UCLA
Planners of Color Interest Group
University of California, Irvine campus, Los Angeles campus
Portland State
RC21
Planners Network
Andy Klein
make.shift
KVWV
The Foundry
Chuan Kuzin
Allen Elementary School, Burlington, WA
James Loucky
Bellingham Human Rights Film Festival
Bellingham Sister City Association
Institute for Village Studies
Maya communities in Guatemala and across North America
Whatcom Peace and Justice Center
Amanda Martin
Animals As Natural Therapy
John McLaughlin
Olympic National Park
North Cascades National Park
Mount Rainier National Park
US Geological Survey
US Fish and Wildlife Service, Bird Banding Laboratory
Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Mt. Baker Ranger District
Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe
Washington Butterfly Association
Whatcom Land Trust
Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association
Chuckanut Community Forest Park District
Mary Janell Metzger
Northwest Youth Services (Heather McGuinness, Community Relations Coordinator )
AS Queer Resource Center
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
LGBTQ Advocacy Council
Mark Neff
Mt Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, District Ranger
Tara Perry
Opportunity Council
Center for Service-Learning
SpicerDent Productions
Kimberly Peters
Public schools in Whatcom and Skagit counties (pre-K through 12th grade)
Seattle Children’s Hospital
Listen and Talk Preschool, Seattle
Rosalie Romano
Windward High School, Ferndale School District
Spring Term SEC 411 students (secondary education candidates)
Community Health and Human Services students
Doug Banner, Storyteller, The Flow Project
Patrick Roulet
Whatcom Symphony Orchestra
Whatcom Jazz Music Art Center
Bellingham Chamber Music
Linda Shleef
Local schools (educators and families) in Whatcom and Skagit Counties
Art Sherwood
Technology Alliance Group
Small Business Development Center
Association of Washington Cities
Invent Co-Working
Innovate Bellingham
Sharon Shewmake
Community Energy Challenge
Anu Singh-Cundy
Biology Department, Audubon
Washington Native Plant Society, Komo Kulshan chapter
North Cascades Audubon Society
Kristine Smith
Growing Veterans
Bellingham Public Schools
Lummi Nation School
Birchwood Neighborhood Association
Restore
WCC Cooperative Preschools
NSEA
Bellingham Parks and Rec
Sardis Raptor Reserve
Mollywood
The Chore Program, Whatcom Volunteer Center
Max Higbee Center
Highgate Senior Living
Bellingham/Ferndale Community Meals
Computers 4 Kids
Tamara Spira
The Feminist Wire
Critical Resistance
American Studies Association, Community Activism Caucus
Nick Stanger
Lummi Nation
Swinomish Nation
WSANEC Nation
Songhees Nation
Esquimalt Nation
Whatcom Middle School
Explorations Academy
Highline High School
Sehome High School
Job Corps Sedro-Wooley
Greenlearning.ca
Redfish School of Change
University of Victoria
Center for Canadian-American Studies
Theresa Warburton
Bellingham Racial Justice Coalition
Northwest Detention Center Resistance
Peggy Watt
A sampling of recent student internship locations:
Lynden Tribune
SeattlePI.com
What’s Up magazine
Bellingham Alive
Northern Light
Bellingham Public Schools
Opportunity Council
City of Bellingham Mayor’s Office
City of Burien
Make.Shift
Lulu & Georgia
Bicycle Adventures
American Cancer Society
Liam Gallagher Photography
University Communications
Jeanne Yeasting
OtherMind Press
SpeakEasy reading series
The Musée d’Orsay and Le Petit Palais museums in Paris
National Association of Writers and Writing Programs
Morgan Block Building artist studio cooperative
Jennifer Zovar
Birchwood Neighborhood Association