Board of Directors

Leesa Manion

Leesa Manion is the Chief of Staff to King County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Satterberg, a position she has held since 2007. In addition to overseeing a wide range of fiscal, human resources, legislative, and internal and external communications and policy issues, Leesa oversees a variety of youth and justice programs, including the office’s 180 Program, which is a community-based, pre-filing juvenile diversion program designed to keep youth out of the criminal justice system.

She has also spearheaded a number of projects aimed at reducing disproportionality within in the criminal justice system, a major initiative launched by the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office in the last few years. Leesa is a graduate of Seattle University School of Law. She serves on the Boards of the Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle and Pioneer Human Services; she also serves on the Community Board for the University of Washington’s Communities in Action Initiative. Leesa is a member of the Asian Bar Association of Washington and Washington Women Lawyers. Outside of work, Leesa enjoys entertaining, reading, and spending time with her two young children.

Steve Kessel

Steve worked at Amazon for 20 years and served in many roles including Senior Vice President of Digital Media, launching the Amazon Kindle, digital video business, and digital music business. Most recently, Steve led the Physical Stores and Grocery businesses including Amazon Go, Amazon Fresh, and Whole Foods Market stores.

Zach Silk

Zach Silk is the President of Civic Ventures, a Seattle-based public policy incubator. He oversees strategy, outreach, and policy development. He is an experienced civic leader and entrepreneur. Zach’s most notable recent successes include managing the successful campaign to pass and defend Washington State’s marriage equality law in 2012 (Approve Referendum 74), co-founding the Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility and managing Initiative 594, the successful ballot measure that requires background checks on all gun sales. Zach’s middle name is Eagle because his father was a hippie and a patriot.

Scott Wang

Scott Wang is currently a Sr. Vendor Manager at Amazon, where he runs one of Amazon Fashion’s retail businesses. Prior to Amazon, Scott spent five years working on gun reform. For Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), Scott was part of the original, growth team of MAIG, where he managed policy research, financial operations, and coalition growth. For the Chicago-based Joyce Foundation, Scott co-ran the Gun Violence Prevention grant-making program, with a particular focus on state-based organizing, national messaging projects, and digital strategy. Scott holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Caleb Weaver

Caleb is a Vice President at Ridwell, where he oversees public affairs, legal, compliance and human resources. Prior to Ridwell, Caleb ran public affairs for Uber for much of the western US. Caleb began his career working for the Governors of Missouri and Illinois, eventually landing on President Obama’s 2008 campaign and then at USDA during the early years of the Obama administration as the national Press Secretary. An attorney by training, Caleb’s brief stint at a law firm after leaving government convinced him that the practice of law was better left to others.

Regina Malveaux

In August 2020, Regina Malveaux was appointed to Governor Jay Inslee’s cabinet as Director of the Washington State Women’s Commission. Regina has served as one of our nine inaugural Commissioners for the past two years. Regina has over 20 years of experience as a tenacious advocate for women and children as a non-profit executive, victim’s services provider, community leader and policy advocate.

Previously, Regina served as CEO of YWCA Spokane, Executive Director of YWCA South Hampton Roads, Legal Advocate at YWCA San Diego and founder of the Women’s Legal Center. Through her work with the YWCA, Malveaux has established a national reputation as an aggressive advocate on issues related to gender-based violence and funding supports for families experiencing poverty.

Regina holds an undergraduate degree in Social Policy from San Diego State University, a law degree from Howard University School of Law and a certificate in Non-profit Management from the Harvard University School of Business. During law school, she worked in both the White House and in Congress, for First Lady Hillary Clinton and the Honorable Maxine Waters respectively.

She has worked to train a new generation of advocates as an adjunct professor in Political, Women’s and African American studies at San Diego State University, the Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Old Dominion University, and Whitworth University.

Regina has served on a number of boards aimed at advancing racial justice, economic empowerment and victim safety including the San Diego NAACP, Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the Alliance for Gun Responsibility and the YWCA USA. Regina is the mother of two adult children and currently resides in Olympia, Washington.