Our Board members are local leaders with expertise and connections to the issues facing our community.
John Moalli, his wife Allison, and their son Ryan moved to San Juan Island in 2014, where they sought a safe and family-oriented community. He is an active volunteer on the island and his work with local high school students with disabilities inspired him to develop and teach a course on design for the disabled at Stanford University where he is an Adjunct Professor in the school of engineering. John also sits on the board of trustees of the Spring Street International School. He earned his doctorate from MIT and still enjoys a rewarding career at Exponent, a scientific and engineering consulting company. John brings an analytical, compassionate and hands-on approach to local challenges. In his spare time, John is an active pilot, and enjoys traveling with his family, walking with his dog, boating, fishing, and working with his hands.
Norm, Kathy and their son, Spencer, have an abiding connection to the cultures, places and residents of the Salish Sea. They have owned property on Whidbey and San Juan Islands; Spencer and Norm are alumni of Camp Nor’wester on Lopez and Johns Islands; and the Smiths are boaters, who have been regular visitors and contributors in the region for decades.
Norm is President Emeritus of The Ford Family Foundation in Roseburg, OR, and is a Senior Fellow at the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust in Vancouver, WA. He is past board chair of Grantmakers of Oregon and Southwest Washington and a former board member of Philanthropy Northwest in Seattle.
Norm is a retired attorney, who started with the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C.; then had a private practice in Portland, OR; and became an executive in the Law and Government Affairs division of AT&T in Portland, Denver and San Francisco. Norm served three terms in the Oregon House of Representatives and is a graduate of Northwestern and Willamette University College of Law.
Barbara has owned a home on San Juan Island since 2000. She spent many summers here while wintering in Pebble Beach, CA before making San Juan her permanent home in 2014.
Barbara grew up in Montreal and is now a dual citizen. Majoring in Musicology and Music History at Wellesley College in MA, she also has an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. Barbara retired in 2001 after a long career in business and finance. Her last position was Senior Vice President Strategic Planning at Visa International in Foster City, CA.
Barbara’s past board experience includes Treasurer of Merola Opera Program and San Francisco Performances, Director of the Friday Harbor Labs Advancement Board and Chair of the Monterey Symphony. Barbara has been a trustee of the San Juan Community Theatre since 2014 and Co-Chair of Peace Island Volunteers from 2011 to 2014, now a Director. She joined the San Juan Island Community Foundation board in 2007.
Rebecca was introduced to the San Juan Islands in 2001. She splits her time among Minneapolis, Palm Desert and San Juan Island, but San Juan has increasingly become “home” since 2003.
After many years of active community service in the Twin Cities, including twelve years on the Walker Art Center board, Rebecca has quietly but consistently been active in her local community. She serves as an advisor to the Animal Protection Society of Friday Harbor and was an instrumental part of the new shelter building project. Rebecca currently serves on the board of Peace Island Medical Center and has served on the board of the San Juan Island Community Foundation since 2008.
At the pleasure of the former President of the United States, Barack Obama, Rebecca served for six years on The Kennedy Center Board in Washington, DC as the chair of the development committee.
Rebecca’s respect and appreciation for the San Juans complements her long-time love and support of community, children and animals. Even with this enduring dedication and effort, Rebecca is first and foremost a homemaker and mother. She and her husband, Bob, have three sons, three daughters-in-law, nine grandchildren and three German Shepherds.
A fifty-year resident of San Juan Island, Charles Anderson served as the Foundation’s chairman for 12 years. During his tenure, annual grants to the community have grown by an average of 50 times. In 2018, the Board honored his dedicated service by naming him chairman emeritus.
In 1976, Charles founded Cogent Data Technologies, a successful computer hardware networking company headquartered in Friday Harbor with offices in Seattle, Europe and the Far East. He sold the privately held company in 1996 and ‘retired’.
Charles was educated at M.I.T (BSEE) and received a PhD in Physiology and Molecular Biophysics from The University of Washington. Charles spent several years overseas involved in postdoctoral research at the University of Leiden and at the University College London as the guest of Sir Bernard Katz, Nobel Lauriat in neurophysiology.
Charles, as chair of the San Juan Island Community Foundation, spearheaded the creation of the Peace Island Medical Center, co-directed the $10.5 million hospital capital campaign and served as the founding chairman of the Board of Directors. The Cancer Care Center is named after his former wife Deanna, whose passing served as an inspiration to create the hospital.
Charles also serves on the Board of Directors and member of the investment committee of the Aspen Music Festival and School in Aspen, Colorado.
In 2022 Charles was honored with the National Distinguished Service Award for his philanthropic work. Distinguished Service Award winners are chosen by the Council of Foundations on the basis of their demonstrated leadership, innovation, courage, integrity, trust, and impact on their community.
In his younger days, Charles was a pilot, a sailor and mountain climber. He is an avid skier and an active philanthropist.
As a third-generation San Juan Islander, Steve is a very familiar face on San Juan Island. He grew up on a cattle ranch on the southwest shore of San Juan Island and remains devoted to the island’s health and vitality.
Steve has been active in the local real estate business since the early 80s, when he joined San Juan Properties to assist his father, the late Sam Buck II. He’s the current owner of Coldwell Banker San Juan Islands, where he enjoys working with a tight-knit group of realtors with 20 years of history together.
Steve graduated from Friday Harbor High School and earned a BA in Business Administration from Washington State University. He also studied International Business at the University of Washington. In addition to his active real estate business, Steve fills his time with a variety of volunteer efforts. He helped establish United Way of San Juan County and has served on a number of boards, including Paideia School.
When not at work, Steve enjoys spending time with the most important people in his life – his family. He has four children and three grandchildren.
David Feiger, MD has been the medical director of the emergency department and an emergency physician at PIMC since May 2025. He received both his undergraduate and medical degrees from Duke University, then completed residency at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Prior to coming to Friday Harbor, he was the medical director at a critical access hospital in North Dakota while also on medical staff at two Emory-affiliated community hospitals in Atlanta.
Before medicine, he served as a strategist for Southwest Airlines where he helped direct network & pricing strategy following the airline’s acquisition of AirTran. Additionally, he worked for Citigroup in New York, managing the bank’s network across sub-Saharan Africa and South America for payments on behalf of the Italian government.
He currently resides in Seattle and is married to his partner, Jared, of 16 years. He speaks French, Spanish, Italian, and Cantonese.
Julie Gralow, MD earned her bachelor’s degree from Stanford University (1977–1981) and her medical degree from the University of Southern California School of Medicine (1984–1988). She completed her internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School (1988–1991), followed by a medical oncology fellowship at the University of Washington/Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
Gralow held the position of Jill Bennett Endowed Professor of Breast Medical Oncology (1992–2021) and Professor of Global Health (2011–2021) at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She was also a member of the clinical research division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (1992–2021) and served as the director of breast medical oncology at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance(2001–2021).
Since 2021, Gralow has been the Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). Before assuming this role, she held various volunteer and leadership positions within ASCO, including chair of the ASCO Academic Global Oncology Task Force, co-chair of the ASCO Resource-Stratified Guideline Advisory Group, and member of the editorial board for the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO)/ASCO Global Curriculum in Medical Oncology.
She has also been actively involved in several nonprofit organizations. In 1995, she co-founded Team Survivor Northwest, where she continues to serve as Team Physician. Additionally, she has been a medical advisory committee member for the Cierra Sisters African American Support Group, an advisory board member for Global Focus on Cancer, and a board member of Peace Island Medical Center, a rural access hospital in Washington State.
Pamela traveled the world on a small sailboat for 10 years before settling in Friday Harbor in 1997. She sailed over 10,000 nautical miles from the Intercoastal Waterway to the Inside Passage and hundreds of places in between. At one time, in true island fashion, she juggled four different jobs to make ends meet.
She served on the board for the San Juan Community Home Trust in its early days and assisted youth as a volunteer Reading Buddy. She co-taught English as a Second Language to refugee women, volunteers for the Maltz Museum’s Stop The Hate program and was active in the leadership and design of the PeaceHealth Peace Island Medical Center. For PIMC, she also coordinated the landscaping; ensured that a fruit orchard was included to honor the property history as a former farm and along with her husband, donated the stately Garry Oak trees to help preserve island character.
Educated at Ohio State University with a B.S in Agriculture Economics, in recent years, she has pursued a life-long interest in the regulation of industrial animal agriculture and its catastrophic effects on the animals, workers and the environment. In partnership with the burgeoning Animal Law program at Lewis & Clark, she co-created Law Scholars for Change, a scholarship-clerkship-fellowship program that supports animal law students who seek to advocate for and advance industrial farmed animal rights and protections.
Pamela is an accomplished landscape designer and master gardener. She loves animals, loves to hike, ski, read and explore places of wonder and artistic expression.
Author and biologist Thor Hanson is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Switzer Environmental Fellow, and winner of the John Burroughs Medal. His many books include Close to Home, Buzz, Feathers, and the children’s favorites The Escape Artist and Star and the Maestro. Thor’s work has been translated into a dozen languages and earned many accolades, including the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science and three Pacific Northwest Book Awards. He co-hosted the PBS Nature series American Spring Live, and has appeared on programs ranging from Fresh Air to Science Friday, and WIRED Currents. Hanson lives with his family on an island in the Pacific Northwest.
Having grown up in the Midwest, Philip Johnson first discovered San Juan Island in 1999 as the result of a visit to sail and kayak this unique island. After falling in love with the San Juans, Phil and his spouse, Peg Gerlock, chose to become permanent residents more than 20 years ago. Over that time, he has come to know and respect the community members who live and work here.
During his 40-year career as a market research professional, he became an owner and the CEO of Leo J. Shapiro & Assoc., a market research and consulting company located in Chicago. Phil has an undergraduate degree in psychology from Loyola University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. Professionally he has been a researcher, analyst, manager, mentor, and marketing consultant. Currently, he is president of JJG Group LLC, which provides survey research for intellectual property litigation.
Phil has served the Community Foundation as a member of its investment committee over the past eight years. For many years he was the chair of the annual San Juan Concours, and he is an active member in the San Juan Island Yacht Club.
Phil enjoys sailing, mountaineering, backpacking, and kayaking as well as visits with his two children and three grandchildren, who live in the Denver area. He also treasures long hikes with Peg and their dog Dylan.
James (Jim) Richardson grew up on the east coast, lived in the mountains of Colorado for 35 years and has been living full time on-island since 2000. He is a dedicated multi-generational philanthropist and advocate committed to advancing meaningful, lifesaving and life-enhancing initiatives. With a strong belief that service is both a responsibility and a privilege, he has devoted his time, leadership, and resources to organizations focused on health, community well-being, and social impact.
Jim is currently on the board of directors for several nonprofits, including Friends of Lime Kiln Society (FOLKS), the Joyce L. Sobel Family Resource Center, and the Medic One Foundation.
Jim has been actively involved in nonprofit leadership for over 40 years, including his work with the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation, where he supports efforts to increase awareness, improve prevention, and expand access to life-saving CPR & AED education and technology. His philanthropic approach emphasizes not only financial support, but also engagement, relationship-building, and long-term sustainability.
Guided by the principle of “getting involved,” Jim believes that real impact comes from hands-on commitment and collaboration. Philanthropy, for him, is about more than giving—it is about helping organizations grow, empowering people, and creating lasting change in the communities they serve. This philosophy reflects a broader six-generation family tradition of engaged philanthropy, where leadership and participation are as important as financial contribution. For example, L. Richardson Memorial Hospital, which opened in 1927 in Greensboro to provide access to health care and medical education for the African American community.
Through his work, Jim strives to inspire others to contribute in meaningful ways and to build a culture of generosity, accountability, and compassion.
Laura is a sixth-generation islander who became a full-time resident of San Juan Island in 2009. Her multi-faceted career began as a Graduate Gemologist and expanded to executive leadership through her role at Heritage Bank, where she served as Vice President in branch management for 15 years. This role suited her commitment to exceptional customer service and fostered relationships she truly values. Today, she manages Sandstrom Law with her husband, Thomas. Outside the office, Laura’s passion project is her work as an independent education consultant, guiding local and regional students toward post-secondary education or careers in the trades.
Laura and Thomas have three adult children, the youngest of whom is a junior at the University of Washington. Now enjoying their newly empty nest, the couple can often be found on road trips in their convertible or out on the golf course. Laura also loves hiking with her family, watching Thomas’s band at local venues, and discussing the latest novels with her book club.
She joined the board of the San Juan Island Community Foundation in 2017.
Nina VanLund has been a full-time resident of San Juan Island since 2004 and is deeply committed to supporting her local community. Her volunteer experiences include service with Hospice of San Juan, SJICF Women’s Fund Grants Committee, and as a board member of the Friends of the San Juan Island Library.
Nina is a former teacher and a lifelong learner. She is particularly eager to contribute to SJICF’s mission by serving on the Grants and Scholarship Committees to better serve the needs of the San Juan Island community. She enjoys reading, walking on the beautiful island trails, and yoga. She has adopted many cats from our Animal Protection Society.