ART WITH HEART ADVISORS
Bob Bowen serves as the Area Director for the Pacific Northwest Region for World Vision. Bob also serves his local community as a Chaplain for Eastside Fire & Rescue, and the city of Bellevue Police and Fire departments, certified in CISM and PTSD. Bob has a passion for helping children and families in need around the world and right here in the local community.
Bob is an active member of the Bellevue Breakfast Rotary club. Bob is married to Janice and they have two sons, Aaron and Sam, and their two golden retrievers, Angel and Caleb.
Peter Drury, an alumnus of Yale, the University of Washington, and the University of Illinois, is a strategy consultant who bears wisdom and passion for the non-profit sector. To Art With Heart he brings particular expertise in leadership, organizational development, fundraising and team building. He has a rich background in ethics, leadership, management, development, communications and strategy. Peter is Development Director at Sightline Institute and an M.B.A. candidate at Seattle University. In his spare time, Peter serves on the Institutional Review Board (Ethics Committee) of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and is past Board President of Multifaith Works, an interfaith AIDS and MS services agency. He is the proud father of wonderful daughters, and may occasionally be found blowing bubbles off the front porch.
Rosalie Frankel, MA, ATR, has worked as an Art therapist for since 1980. She received her BA in Aesthetic Studies: Art and Psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She then went on to earn a Masters Degree in Clinical Art Therapy from Immaculate Heart College. Rosalie has work in a wide variety of setting including extensive work with children and adults with special needs. Before moving to Seattle in 1994 she was the founding Program Director the Creative Arts Program which utilized an integrative creative arts approach for Adults with Developmental Disabilities and significant mental health challenges. She was Program Director of this award winning program for 10 years. Rosalie has also had many years of experience as an art therapy supervisor for Loyola Marymount University, University of Louisville Art Therapy Programs, and individuals seeking advanced training and registration as Art Therapist. She has been providing individual and group Art Therapy at Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical center since 1999. Rosalie has been a continued source of support for Art with Heart, serving as an advisor to all of our publications.
Jeanean Jacobs, MA, ATR-BC, CPAT, CPC received her Master of Arts in Art Therapy at the University of Louisville in 1999. Currently, Jeanean serves as the Director of In Home Programs at Maryhurst in Kentucky, overseeing a foster care program for all ages and working with traumatized children and young adults. Previously she served as Senior Director of Young Adult Services at the YMCA of Greater Seattle, helping young adults as they transitioned out of the foster care system. She is professionally certified as a Registered Art Therapist, National Board Certified Art Therapist, and Professional Coach. She serves on the board of directors of the Phoenix Institute and is a former board member of Art with Heart. She is a member of the American Art Therapy Association and lives in Louisville. She is passionate about helping youth reach beyond difficult circumstances to create a life of their choosing.
Treuman Katz is currently the President Emeritus of the Seattle Children’s Hospital & Regional Medical Center (”Seattle Children’s”), after serving as its President and Chief Executive Officer from 1979 to October 2005. Under his leadership, Seattle Children’s became one of America’s top five children’s hospitals with assets of over US$1 billion and an annual budget of more than US$500 million. Mr. Katz led the strategic planning process that resulted in the creation and establishment of the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance; Children’s University Medical Group (CUMG), a major joint venture between Children’s Health Care System and the University of Washington School of Medicine; Child Health Corporation of America, a national venture of 42 hospital organizations; Airlift Northwest, a consortium organized to transport patients throughout the Northwest by fixed-wing and helicopter; and a multi-organ transplant program established at Seattle Children’s for heart, liver, small bowel, and bone marrow. Prior to his tenure at Seattle Children’s, Mr. Katz served as a senior executive at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Mr. Katz has a Masters degree in Science from the University of California at Berkeley, California and an MBA from George Washington University in Washington D.C.
Ron Rabin, MA, LMHC, is the founding and current Executive Director of Kirlin Charitable Foundation in Bellevue, Washington. Ron came to Kirlin after a twenty year career in the fields of psychology and integrative medicine. He was the founding board president for Arts Corps, serving as president until 2006. Ron currently serves on the board of Bridges to Understanding, a global education program focused on building intercultural relationships through digital storytelling. Ron also serves on the Advisory Committee for Thrive By Five, a newly established public-private partnership for early learning in Washington State. Most recently, Ron has joined the board of CASEL, the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning, University of Illinois at Chicago. Ron lives in Issaquah, Washington, with his wife and partner, Nancy Rumbel, a musician and recording artist. Their son is a filmmaker living in Los Angeles, and their daughter is traveling the world studying language, food and culture.
Joseph C. Roberts is the CEO and owner of Apulent, a Seattle hospitality firm providing catering; event production and facility management services. Since 1987, he has served as a public arbitrator for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and its predecessors resolving complex securities disputes, and since 2005, he has served as board president of Seattle’s Center on Contemporary Art. Previously, he practiced law in Seattle with Skeel, Henke, Evenson & Roberts, journalism in Guayaquil with Análisis Semanal and managed the development of one of the world’s largest Vermiconverson facilities in San Diego, California. He is an honors program graduate of Washington State University and earned his Juris Doctorate from Seattle University. He is a mentor for young people both privately and through formal college programs, and is the proud father of two sons.
Blair L. Sadler is President Emeritus of the Rady Children’s Hospital and Health Center in San Diego, a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and a faculty member at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. He served as President and CEO of Children’s from 1980-2006. A graduate of Amherst College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, he served as a Medical-Legal Specialist for the National Institutes of Health, on the Yale University faculty, as Assistant Vie President at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and as Vice President and Director of the hospital and clinics at Scripps Clinical and Research Foundation. He was the founding chair of the Child Health Accountability Initiative, a consortium of 15 children’s hospitals dedicated to improving the quality of America’s children. He served on the U.S.-Mexico Border Heath Commission. Among Mr. Sadler’s numerous professional activities, he has co-authored three books and has written numerous articles on quality and healthcare. He is a frequent presenter nationally and internationally on the impact of evidence based-design and the business case for building optimal hospitals.
Barbara V. Wollner is a self-taught artist living in both Seattle, Washington and Healdsburg, California. She is involved in a variety of non-profit organizations focusing on education, arts, environment and sustainable agriculture. Her background is in restaurant management, AIDS fund raising and community service.
She lends advisory support to First Place and Art with Heart in Seattle; and Imagine Bus Project in Healdsburg. She is involved in the Seattle Foundation, Community Foundation Sonoma County and the NPR Foundation. Barbara has also served as a mentor to Art with Heart’s Founder and Board of Directors.
Howard Wollner retired as a Senior Vice President of Starbucks Coffee Company, working for the company from 1992-2005. He served in various capacities, including Senior Vice President of Administration and was the executive responsible for Strategic Alliance Management for joint venture partnerships. He also worked for Starbucks Coffee International as Senior Vice President Strategic Business Systems. His last assignment was as Senior Vice President Store Concepts where he led a team in the research and development of new store design and functionality for the next generation of Starbucks stores worldwide. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Georgetown University and his Master of Business Administration degree from Seattle University. Wollner provides strategic planning and organizational development consulting services to companies in Seattle and Sonoma County. He serves on the boards of IslandWood, an environmental learning center on Bainbridge Island and The Seattle Foundation. He also advises other non-profit organizations in Seattle and Sonoma County on strategic planning issues. He is married to Barbara Wollner and has a daughter, Alessandra, who attends Brown University. He enjoys yoga, squash, gourmet food and wine, design and reading.
BOARD EMERITUS
- Marni Seneker, Business Consultant
- Mary Lynn Thompson, Group Health
- David Conrad, Owner, Design Commission
- Bruce Tyler, Print Rep, Printing Today
- Nick Zarkades, Windermere
- Jeanean Jacobs, MA, ATR-BC, CPAT, CPC, Marhurst
- Lynn Spohn, Principal, Oasis
- John Hornall, Hornall Anderson Design Works
- Ame Wellman, Attorney, Davis Wright Tremaine
- Pat Hackett, Principal, Artist Representative
- Robin Thomas, RN, PhD
- Michael Carpenter, Partner, Gallery DeNovo