Staff & Key Volunteers

Introducing the staff of the Voices Education Project:

• Marilyn Turkovich, Executive Director
  Marilyn has been involved in education in various capacities; teacher, curriculum coordinator, principal and at the undergraduate and graduate levels in teacher training, for several decades. She was the former director of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest's Urban Education Program in Chicago, the Committee for Teaching about Asia for the Association of Asian Studies, and the Textbook Committee of the National Council for the Social Studies. Her teaching has led her from the U.S. to work in India, Guatemala, Japan and Brazil. She frequently designs training for the corporate world and study and activity guides for media companies. Marilyn enjoys travel, reading, being involved in the art world, and cooking.
• Charles Baker, Bookkeeper
  Charles completed UW's Certificate Program in Accounting in 2004. He has worked on the accounting staff of the San Francisco Symphony and, in Seattle, of Community Home Health Care.
• Ronald "Otts" Bolisay, Director of Technology & Communications
• Jeff Deveaux, Grant Writer
  Jeff lives in Seattle, where he works by day as a grant writer for nonprofit organizations, and flies by night as an amateur trapeze and aerial rope artist. Jeff has a bachelor’s degree in English and has been a writer and editor for eight years. He also writes fiction and is a graduate of the Clarion West Writer's Workshop.
• Renan Jeffreis, Software
  Renan is a software and database developer, and a volunteer for many nonprofit organizations in Seattle. Renan was the first Web software developer at Microsoft, responsible for building one the first website development tools in the software industry, and part of the founding team of the Microsoft Developer Network.
• Rich Moniak, Outreach Coordinator
  Rich, of Juneau, Alaska, is the father of an army soldier who has served two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. He is a civil engineer for the US Coast Guard. He began publicly speaking out against the Iraq war in August 2005 in a series of guest commentaries published in the Juneau Empire. He co-founded the Alaska Chapter of Military Families Speak Out, is a central figure in the Juneau People for Peace and Justice, and is an associate member of the Veterans for Peace.
• Andrew Himes, Web Developer