Board President: Mahyar Rahbarrad

Background: Mahyar has held a variety of senior level engineering and information technology leadership positions. He has extensive experience in strategic planning and execution, organization development, and a strong entrepreneurial spirit focused on team building and rapid problem solving.

Work with NNN: Started volunteering in early 2023 with primary focus on providing technical services to the community as well as picking up a few assembly and repair requests. Beginning his board position in November 2023 focusing on long-range strategic planning and operational standards, Mahyar served as BOD Vice President in 2024, and was elected Board President for 2025.

Board Vice President: Sandy Moy

Background: Sandy started her career at the University of Illinois as a systems software engineer in the 1960s.  In 1989 she became the Director of University Computing Services at the University of Washington, bringing her and her husband to Lake Forest Park (and the mountains). 

Board Treasurer: Rick Canning 

Background: Rick has an extensive background as a collaborative leader, with an emphasis on a systematic team approach to financial planning, problem solving, planning, and process improvement. He is a senior level healthcare professional leader with 20+ years of extensive experience in financial and operational management areas and a former CPA. 

Board Secretary: Rita Gunderson

Background: Rita manages projects in right of way, obtaining rights to use land for transportation, utility, or other infrastructure projects.  Previously was designated by the FAA to inspect and certify twin-aisle airplanes, and also found time to become a paralegal.  She has a passion for volunteering and has been a Snohomish County Ombudsman, Senior Peer Counselor with Homage, taking on tasks with Catholic Community Services and managed numerous youth sports teams over the years.

Work with NNN: Rita has a passion for seeing a need and helping to fill the gap.  She has taken on several opportunities behind the scenes; birthday cards, research projects, phone outreach, and helps support the social committee planning and news you can use.  She  joined the Board to share ideas, become part of the solution, and to ensure sustainability of NNN. Rita was elected Board Secretary in 2025.

Director: C Call 

Background: C spent the last of her career working in large corporations, leading process improvement, project management, business architecture and the integration of people and technology. Her earliest volunteer work was with the Campfire Girls, which later segued, as it does, into the telecommunications industry. Before getting involved with technology, C spent 10 years as the national/international sales manager for a toy company.

Director: Eileen Carter

Background: Eileen started her career training techs in Clinical Chemistry, moved to New Zealand to sell and repair chemistry instrumentation, and finished her corporate career training folks on biotech instruments that decoded the human genome. To get off the road, she started and ran her own businesses in three states and finished up by coaching UW Medical and Allied Health students in communications. Somewhere in there, she went around the world on her own. That map reading experience has come in handy for driving NNN members.

Director: Jerry Carriveau

Background: Jerry has been an active member of many community organizations and an advocate for supporting people with disabilities throughout the region. Past Board member with the North Urban Human Services Alliance (NUHSA). 

Director: Lee Gresko 

Background: Lee brings her Midwest roots, where she grew up on a small farm and decided to be a nurse someday. After high school, she headed off to Chicago with a hope to fulfill her plan. After graduating from a 3-year nursing program, the "Inner City" called to her, where she worked with Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago. Meeting the patients in their wide range of socio-economic circumstances always made her feel privileged to meet them in their own space. Eventually, she came to the PNW and had interesting work experiences in psychiatric nursing, the field of alcohol-drug treatment and counseling, Juvenile detention, and finally, a community Senior wellness program which helped her prepare for retirement -- learning from her peers!

Director: Lyn Ching 

Background: Lyn has over 20 years experience in sales and marketing, with clear results and achievements (awards, cruises, etc.) showing her success in meeting and exceeding sales goals. 

Executive Director: Alison Pence

Background: For the past 3 years, Pence was the Executive Director of the MS Helping Hands Donor Closet, a nonprofit in downtown Edmonds. Her past qualifications include being executive director of one of the largest food banks in Seattle and being a staff person in the Washington State House of Representatives for the House Democratic Caucus.  Pence has worked with seniors and disabled adults in her past and will continue to do so into the future. Her past work in underserved communities, working in direct services, raising funds through grant writing and event fundraising will be an asset to the organization.

Alison is married to local city activist, Roger Pence. They have raised four children and now are grandparents to six grandchildren. In order to keep her mental balance, Alison is also known as a local hula dancer and ukulele player with STRUM and Puniwai Na Mele Ohana.

Volunteer Services Manager: Danielle Widjaya

Background: Danielle has worked in the social services field since 2018 in a variety of positions helping seniors an persons with disabilities. Her experience includes being a caregiver, customer service agent, designing senior and lifestyle programs, training functions, and event and marketing functions.