Board

Marsha Botzer
Secretary
At the national level, Marsha Botzer is currently Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. In Washington State she serves on the Boards of the Pride Foundation and the Safe Schools Coalition. She is a member of the Pride at Work organization, and founding board member and current Secretary of Equal Rights Washington. She is also a founding member of Seattle’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center.

Marsha currently serves on the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Advisory Committee. She Chaired the Committee from 1999 to 2005.

Marsha attended Antioch University, graduating with a Masters in Psychology degree in 1990, and today she is a member of the Antioch University Board of Visitors. In 1997 Marsha completed the Seattle Chamber of Commerce Leadership Tomorrow Program.

Marsha is the Founder of Seattle’s Ingersoll Gender Center, a direct service organization that began as an idea in 1977, and incorporated as a not for profit educational corporation in1984. She continues to serve and support the Center.

In 2003 Marsha received the Greater Seattle Business Association Community Service and Leadership Award, and the Human Rights Campaign Equality Award. In 2004 she received the Virginia Prince Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Federation for Gender Education, and the Horace Mann “Victories for Humanity” Award from Antioch University. Also in 2004, Marsha was selected as the Grand Marshall for Seattle’s Pride weekend and Parade.

Marsha served as Co-Chair of the Seattle Commission for Sexual Minorities in 2001 to 2002. She was a member of the Seattle Women’s Commission from 1987 to 1991, serving as vice president during 1991. She has served on the Boards of Lambert House, Seattle Counseling Service, and Equality Washington. Further information is available at:
www.BotzerConsulting.com.

Eileen Terry
Vice President for Fund Development
A multi-experienced and -multi-dimensional fifty-plus woman, Eileen started an active business career that has spanned the last 35 years. Her first business, a Kool-Aid stand, was fully capitalized with 100% R.O.I. (cost of goods and wagon were fully financed by parents). The golfers on the 7th hole of the local golf course were her target market. This first sales and marketing opportunity stimulated Eileen’s interest in pursuing a business career.

Eileen graduated with degrees in Philosophy and Sociology. After not finding a real market for a “Philosopher-in-Residence,” she started her business climb with Procter & Gamble. While employed there, and then at Pillsbury Corporation, she perfected her persuasive sales skills. She moved on to Southland Corporation and then Chevron, taking positions from multi-unit oversight to marketing, merchandizing, and operations management.

Eileen’s next stop was Blockbuster, Inc., where she successfully progressed upward through several positions before becoming the only female to reach the top ranking of Executive Vice President inside Blockbuster. Eileen was responsible for working with the 100-plus franchisees across the United States and Puerto Rico representing 1,050 stores, the company’s non-Blockbuster branded domestic retail concepts, and the operation of Blockbuster’s 400 Canadian stores. In addition, she served as the Global Diversity Officer driving forward Blockbuster’s global diversity efforts, and she successfully developed a world-class diversity council and program that resulted in several national awards by key ethnic/diversity groups.

Emily Walsworth
Director
Emily Walsworth serves on the fund development committee of The Center. She recently relocated to the Seattle area from Southern California with Amgen Inc. where she works as a research associate in the Clinical Immunology department. During her time with Amgen in California, she served on the leadership committee of the Amgen Network of Gay and Lesbian Employees (ANGLE) as the Community Outreach representative. In this role, she served as a key contact and coordinator of Amgen’s involvement in fundraising events for gay and lesbian Organizations in Ventura and Los Angeles county. Emily collaborated with Project Angel Food, which provides meal delivery to HIV/AIDS patients in the Los Angeles area, and also with Ventura County Rainbow Alliance (VCRA), which provides medical referral and patient advocacy for HIV/AIDS patients. VCRA also organizes the annual Ventura County LGBT Pride Festival, and the Ventura AIDS Walk. Emily also volunteered for the Gay and Lesbian Association Against Defamation (GLAAD), an organization which helps the media prevent and resolve defamation against the LGBT community.

Prior to employment at Amgen, she received her Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from University of California, Los Angeles. In addition to her studies, she co-founded the UCLA Student Diversity Association (SDA) which served to create a forum of discussion for issues that were of importance to students and the UCLA community. The SDA comprised of students of many ethnicities and lifestyles, and strove to be inclusive of all perspectives.

Emily is originally from Santa Rosa, California. Having grown up in wine country, surrounded by natural wonders, she enjoys hiking and swimming. Her relocation to the northwest was a perfect match for her personality and interests. Emily now takes pleasure in the many opportunities for activity in Seattle, including sailing, hiking and running.

Darren Augenstein
Director
Darren is a pharmacist whose primary expertise is in the care of individuals living with HIV/AIDS. From 2002 to 2007, he built Statscript/Bioscrip Pharmacy in Seattle, Washington into the largest private sector pharmacy in Washington State serving the needs of people living with HIV/AIDS. He also serve on the Steering Committee of the Washington HIV Early Intervention Program (EIP) which is the need-based Washington state administered insurance program for people living with HIV/AIDS operating under the Department of Health and the Federal Ryan White Act.

Darren currently serves on the Lifelong AIDS Alliance Medical Advisory Board which ties the HIV treatment community with the social mission of Lifelong which is the largest AIDS service organization in the Pacific Northwest. Recently, Darren was appointed by the Seattle City Council to serve on the Seattle Commission for Sexual Minorities where his primary objective will be to focus on how the City of Seattle can best serve the health care needs of Seattle's LGBTQ communities.

Darren received his post-doctoral fellowship in pharmaceutical economics and outcomes research from UW in 2000. He graduated from Creighton University in 1995.

Darren's interests include outdoor recreation (hiking, mountaineering, backcountry camping), world travel, HIV/AIDS care in developing nations, interior design, technology, music, literature, and politics.