Nan McKay

Nan grew up in the midwest and moved to the Northwest in 1971. Early in her career Nan worked for associations of local governments in the Pacific Northwest on issues including growth management, energy policy and elections law. From 1985 to 2002, she served three Washington governors as deputy director and executive director of the Puget Sound Water Quality Authority and later chair of the Puget Sound Action Team. Nan developed and led the environmental sustainability program for The Russell Family Foundation, managing hundreds of grants to nonprofit organizations. She has also worked as Service Corps Director at 501 Commons and now serves as a senior advisor to the program.

Nan has served on a variety of public and nonprofit boards. She was a founding member of the Association of National Estuary Programs and is past president of the Environmental Education Association of Washington. She currently chairs the Northwest Straits Marine Resources Commission and the board of the Sustainable Path Foundation and serves on the boards of the North Cascades Institute and Western Rivers Conservancy and on advisory groups for Washington Maritime BLUE, Curriculum for the Bioregion and the Center for Sustainable Infrastructure.