Meet our Board of Directors
The Foundation Board provides the leadership to accomplish the Foundation’s mission and sets priorities in pursuit of our vision. When not performing Foundation duties, you will find our board members in the gardens and at various Master Gardener events.
President
Karen Jensen
Karen was certified as a Master Gardener in Pierce County in 2023. She enjoyed getting to know fellow master gardeners and leaning about our gardens and priorities by working through a limited internship here in 2024.
Karen’s gardening interest include raising flowers and vegetables. She is part of the YETI program and has a passion for getting kids engaged in nature and gardening at an early age.
Karen lives with her husband and mother in Wenatchee.
Vice President
Shelly Milne
Bio coming soon
Treasurer
Jill Roberson
Bio coming soon
Secretary
Donna Wight
Donna retired from working in the fruit industry in 2020 and completed the Master gardener program in 2024.
Donna began gardening as a toddler helping her mom in the family’s large vegetable garden and has been growing vegetables ever since. She gardened in Maine for her first 35 years. It was a big change learning to garden in North central WA 30 years ago. She grows many vegetables and enjoys showing others how to grow vegetables in this climate.
Director
Position 1
Lisa Pettigrew
Bio coming soon
Her love of garden art is evident from the displays in her yard. She also enjoys trying to capture on camera the insects and birds in her yard. She has a special interest in growing drought-tolerant plants that support pollinators in urban areas.
Teresa became a Master Gardener in 2022.
Director
Position 2
Vacant
TBD
Immediate Past President
Dana Cook
After 12 years working at sea, Dana dropped anchor in the gardening world by becoming a Master Gardener in 2023. She is learning how to maintain her NCW yard, which is quite different from the southern landscape from which she came in 2021.
Dana is most interested in rewilding her traditional landscape into a natural wonderland that sustains local pollinators and wildlife. She is also on the team of Master Gardeners, who writes monthly columns for the Wenatchee World. Her topics of interest include beginning gardening, native plants, eco-conscious gardening, and climate change.