After a successful career as an attorney at one of Seattle’s largest law firms, Mary began working in nonprofit leadership in 2010. Since then, she has served as an interim or permanent Executive Director at both large and small nonprofits. She has expertise in assisting organizations that are dealing with difficult leadership transitions or financial instability.

Most recently, Mary was the Interim Executive Director at The Arc of King County, a leader in disability services. While there, she oversaw construction of a new facility for the organization, combining disability housing, community gathering spaces and The Arc’s main office. Before that, she was the Executive Director of Compass Housing Alliance, one of the largest providers of homelessness services and affordable housing in Seattle. At Compass, she led the organization through the COVID-19 pandemic, creating new protocols and procedures that minimized risk for the organization, its staff, and the people it serves. She also led a transformation in Compass’s fundraising and business practices that helped create more financial stability and opened new programs to expand the organization’s geographic and programmatic reach.

Mary takes particular interest in mentoring young leaders and supporting cultural change to create inclusive organizations. She has experience in strategic planning, fundraising, board development, finance, program design, and human resources and often relies on her legal training to identify areas of risk and opportunity for the organizations she advises.