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
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.
Vice 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.
Treasurer
Ren Novack
Ren Novack moved to the Wenatchee Valley in the Summer of 2022 and was instantly enamored with the Community Education Garden which had her applying for the next round of Master Gardener training. She graduated with the class of 2023 and now co-leads the Butterfly Garden in the Community Education Garden and regularly helps out at the Japanese Bridge of Friendship Garden.
Ren couldn’t pick a favorite plant if she tried and loves everything about gardening from the science of soil and plant composition to the cultural aspects of plants. She enjoys reading and building a library on plants and nature. When her hands aren’t in the dirt, they’re occupied with crafting, pottery, sewing or art.
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
Teresa Marshall
Teresa, a home gardener for 30 years, holds a Beginning Bee Keeping Certification from the Washington Bee Keepers Association.
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
Kami Todd
Kami was certified as a Master Gardener in 2022. She enjoys growing plants and vegetables at her home in Wenatchee and is interested in learning more about gardening infrastructures such as irrigation systems and green houses.
Kami enjoys gardening with her family in the summer and nothing in the winter.
Kami was nominated to the Foundation’s board in 2024
Immediate Past President
Linda Morse
Linda is a retired high school teacher. Born and raised in Leavenworth. She recently moved back to the Wenatchee area.
Her previous gardening experience was in Kingston, Washington where she was the plant sale chair for 6 years.
Linda loves traveling, exploring the backwoods trails and roads, and anything to do with plants and gardening.
Linda is currently serving on the Foundation Board as vice president.