Please feel free to contact either Bookda or Katherine directly with any questions or ideas about Global Washington.

Bookda Gheisar, Executive Director: (206) 547-9332; bookda@globalwa.org

Bookda Gheisar is Executive Director of Global Washington. She joined Global Washington in the summer of 2007. Before coming to Global Washington, Bookda was Executive Director of the Social Justice Fund, where her work was dedicated to addressing the root causes of social, economic, and environmental inequities through strategic grantmaking efforts to community-based organizations in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming.

Katherine Barr, MPA, Program Manager: (206) 547-9331; katherine@globalwa.org

Katherine Barr is Program Manager for Global Washington. She joined Global Washington in December, 2006. Katherine has put her training into practice through extensive international experience, including work in Ecuador with CARE International to evaluate and improve their democracy and participation programming, and experience in Mali increasing collaboration and information-sharing among HIV/AIDS prevention focused NGOs. Ms. Barr is a 2006 graduate of the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, and received her B.A. from Reed College in 1998. Prior to moving into the non-profit world, she was a project manager at Cognitive Arts, managing complex online learning programs for Columbia University, GE Capital and INSEAD Business School, among others.