• College leadership
• Science communication

Maya Tolstoy is a marine geophysicist specializing in seafloor earthquakes and volcanoes and the Maggie Walker Dean of the University of Washington College of the Environment.

Stephanie is responsible for the administration and internal business operations of the College and serves as the chief of staff to the Dean. Primary areas of responsibility include operations strategies and policies, research administration, government relations, health and safety, infrastructure and facilities (including field stations and research vessels), IT, business analysis tool development, and public record requests.

• Finance
• Procurement
• Supply Chain

David is a Fiscal Specialist in the College of the Environment’s Financial and Accounting Service Team (eFAST). David supports procurement operations including Ariba processing, travel and ProCard purchasing across the College units currently supported by Environment’s Procurement and Supply chain (ePAS) team. Outside of work, David enjoys spending time with his wife and taking care of a small jungle that passes as a garden haven for his highly spoiled cats.

Toni is a Finance Manager in the College of the Environment’s Financial and Accounting Service Team (eFAST). Toni works closely with the Director of Finance to manage fiscal activities for research projects and review ProCard transactions. Outside of work hours, Toni is a publishing poet, photographer, and mixed media artist who is looking forward to international travel for new creative inspiration.

• Finance
• Procurement
• Supply Chain

Dawn is a Fiscal Specialist in the College of the Environment’s Financial and Accounting Service Team (eFAST). Dawn supports procurement operations including Ariba processing, travel and ProCard purchasing across the College units currently supported by Environment’s Procurement and Supply chain (ePAS) team. Outside of work, Dawn enjoys spending time with her high-maintenance house plants, baking and traveling to sunny places.

As a resource for college finance staff and unit administrators, Erika oversees financial resources including planning, monitoring, reporting, research administration, and fiscal policy. She leads the technical and change management aspects of the planning, implementation and stabilization of UW’s new financial system Workday for the College. Outside of work, she is known in her neighborhood for inflatable holiday dinosaurs.

Margaret provides strategic Human Resources leadership, oversight, and consultation to the College of the Environment Dean's Office, and is responsible for all matters related to human resources. She oversees successful human resources operations and advisement across the College of the Environment to UW HR, Academic Human Resources, ISC and Shared Services. Margaret provides advisement and consultation on complex faculty, staff, and organizational issues affecting the employment, engagement, appointment, and retention of all members of the College of the Environment impacting the success of the college's research, teaching, and service mission.

• Finance Procurement
• Accounting

Stephanie is a lead analyst in the College of the Environment’s Financial and Accounting Service Team (eFAST). Stephanie works closely with the director of finance to develop and support procurement and supply chain operations. Outside of work, Stephanie enjoys spending time with her cats, trying new recipes, and playing board games.

• Finance
• Procurement
• Supply Chain

Michelle is a Fiscal Specialist in the College of the Environment’s Financial and Accounting Service Team (eFAST). Michelle supports procurement operations including Ariba processing, travel and ProCard purchasing across the College units currently supported by Environment’s Procurement and Supply chain (ePAS) team. She enjoys spending quality time with her 3 kids and her husband. She also enjoys baking cookies and cakes, watching Marvel movies, hiking and travelling!

• Finance Reconciliation
• Accounting

Amanda is a analyst in the College of the Environment’s Financial and Accounting Service Team (eFAST). She helps develop and implement policies and procedures to ensure compliance, efficiency and customer service for shared service team. She is responsible for the financial reporting and month end closure and procurement and supply chain. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, traveling, watching movies and is a foodie.

• Technology support
• Technology strategy

Michael leads the College’s Information and Technology team and is also the Director of Computing for the School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences. He started his technology career more than 30 years ago as an undergraduate and has worked in various information technology positions throughout the UW, including the School of Business, UWIT, Radiology, and Aquatic & Fishery Sciences. When he is not working, he loves to fish, be outdoors, and spend time with his wife and three children.

• Technology Support

Michael supports the information technology needs of the UW College of the Environment. He is passionate about making technology work for people. In his free time, he enjoys amateur radio, cycling, gardening, and trying to revive ancient computers.

• Expanding academic programming

Julia is responsible for academic policy, supporting and facilitating unit-based and interdisciplinary academic programming and expanding experiential learning opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students throughout the College.

• Teaching and learning
• Executive support
• Special projects

Jane provides executive, administrative and project support to the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. She helps manage the Associate Dean’s initiatives, grant-funded efforts, cross-unit teams, and events. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, cross-country skiing, and baking.

• Prospective Student Advising
• Pre-major Advising
• Undergraduate Student Services

As the pre-major academic adviser for the College, Meghan helps prospective and current undergraduates who are exploring environmental majors find the best fit. She serves as the College's liaison to central campus student services units including Admissions, First Year Programs, Minority Affairs and Diversity, Undergraduate Academic Advising and the Career Center. She enjoys reading a good book, diving into a new podcast, and dog watching at parks.

• Student services administration
• Academic policy
• Curriculum administration

Michelle directs the Academic Affairs student services team and coordinates recruitment, retention and advising efforts of the student services staff across the College. She is the point person for academic policies and manages the College Curriculum Committee and the review process for new courses and academic programs. She also manages career services initiatives, including the Career Opportunities page and the Environmental Career Fair.

• Interdisciplinary majors and minors
• Academic advising
• Data analysis

Joe provides academic advising and program coordination for multiple interdisciplinary undergraduate programs in the College. This includes advising for minors in marine biology and quantitative science, and promoting undergraduate course and student research opportunities at Friday Harbor Labs. Joe also supports data analysis related to undergraduate student recruitment and retention, and statistics of course offering and evaluation.

• Diversity and Inclusion
• Professional Development
• Program Management

Jazzmine supports the NSF-funded Research University Alliance network of PhD students and postdocs via professional development events, conferences, and workshops. She also manages the Research Exchange, which sends UW scholars to, and hosts scholars from, eight partner universities across the U.S. Jazzmine is also a PhD Candidate in the biology department. In her free time, Jazzmine enjoys playing board games, reading impossible mysteries, and learning new dance styles.

Melinda leads the college’s advancement team to engage alumni, build individual and corporate partnerships and to further philanthropic investments in the college. Passionate about diversity and inclusion, her initial work in higher education was in engineering education research to increase retention of underrepresented students. Prior to her career in higher education, she provided research and development support to the U.S.D.A. Forest Service Fire and Aviation program.

• EXECUTIVE SUPPORT
• DAILY OPERATIONS
• BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Nova oversees the day-to-day management of the Advancement team’s operations and is the Associate Dean’s assistant. She is the principal liaison between the Associate Dean and other College of the Environment and University Advancement colleagues as well as senior university officials, faculty, staff, alumni, donors, and volunteers. Prior to the College of the Environment, she provided administrative support to teams and executives in healthcare.

• Donor Relations
• Individual Giving
• College Priorities

James is passionate about building and sustaining relationships with individuals to raise private support for the College of the Environment. In his role, he serves as the advancement liaison to the School of Oceanography, Department of Atmospheric Sciences and Program on the Environment. As a Husky alumnus himself, James has worked at UW Bothell Advancement since 2015 and joined the College of the Environment in autumn 2019. When he’s not working, he can be found cooking, reading or traveling.

• Donor relations
• Events

Rachel is based on San Juan Island and works closely with Friday Harbor Labs' Advancement board. She also coordinates annual Friday Harbor Labs donor events. Rachel dabbles in artistic ventures, but mostly enjoys going to art museums, concerts and dance performances.

• Donor relations
• Corporate relations
• Foundation engagement

Danna comes to UW from the Seattle Aquarium, where she served as Corporate Relations Officer building out a robust corporate relations program. She holds a master’s degree in conservation biology from the University of Queensland and a bachelor’s in marine biology from UCSC. In her role at UW, Danna is responsible for working with academic leaders, volunteers and others to develop and implement strategies for corporate and foundation support that align with departmental and College priorities.

• Event planning
• Event management
• Event design

Monica oversees special events (in-person, hybrid, and virtual) for the College of the Environment Advancement team. She specializes in designing experiences that support fundraising, alumni engagement, and awareness building. She provides full-service event management, from concept to day-of-event services. Outside of work, you can find Monica spending time with family or exploring Seattle’s vibrant restaurant, theater, and art scenes.

• Donor relations
• Endowments
• Stewardship reports

Zanne's work focuses on donor acknowledgments, recognition and accountability, compliance and fiduciary responsibility, impact reporting, and engagement and loyalty. When not at work, you can find her singing with the Seattle Symphony Chorale at Beneroya Hall.

• Fundraiser Support
• Development Services
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)

Tegan (she/they) supports the team through the fundraising process, including donor discovery, data pulling and analysis, proposal and report writing, gift processing, and stewardship. She is passionate about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in her professional and personal life. Outside of work, Tegan enjoys park walks, reality TV, and karaoke.

• Donor Relations
• Fundraising
• Stewardship

Kathleen develops and executes strategies to solicit significant gifts of impact to support the College of the Environment and leads the major gift fundraising team. She collaborates with the Associate Dean for Advancement, academic leaders and volunteers, and is a key partner in designing and implementing development programs to sustain significant gift identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship. Outside of work, you can find her exploring local hiking trails or experimenting with new recipes in the kitchen.

• Marketing and communication strategy
• Brand leadership
• Science communication

John leads the College’s Marketing and Communications team and science communication program. He focuses on the College’s brand and marketing strategy, and helps College units and scientists better tell their stories and showcase the impact of their research to key audiences. When not in the office, he is out exploring shorelines and mountains on foot or building something in his basement workshop.

• Web development
• User experience design
• Web tools

Drew builds and supports the College’s website along with the 20+ other sites within the College’s web framework. Drew is the point person for technical support with Trumba event calendars, Marketo emails and WordPress training. He enjoys the whizzing of bike spokes, a fully trimmed sail and exploring the man-made and natural splendor of the Pacific Northwest.

• Project management
• Digital communications
• Web development
• Social media

Joe leads digital communications and content strategy for the College and manages projects for the 20+ sites in the College unit website framework and email communications program. He also writes stories and social media, and works with units across UW Environment to engage online audiences and promote the work of students and faculty.

• Strategic Planning
• Media Relations
• Crisis Communications

Will coordinates the College's strategic marketing and communications efforts and serves as a liaison between the College and the University Marketing and Communications team. He's always looking for new opportunities to tell compelling stories to current and prospective donors, state-level influencers, members of the media and internal university audiences. In his free time, Will loves exploring the Cascades, writing fiction and playing with his cats.

• Social Media
• Multimedia Communications
• Email News & Website

Sarah manages the voice of the College on social media channels, and supports multimedia communications, email news, and articles for the website. On weekends, Sarah can be found on the water sailing or paddling, eating baked goods, or traveling the Pacific Northwest with her adventure cat, Jack.

• Graphic Design
• Visual Communications

Zoe designs digital and print media for the College’s websites and marketing materials and manages the photo archive. In her spare time, she draws pictures and hangs out with her dog.

• RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
• SCIENCE SUPPORT

Shuyi supports faculty, graduate students and postdocs at the College in all spheres related to research. She coordinates and tracks research activities within the College, seeks out opportunities for new interdisciplinary research and promotes the College's research portfolio within UW, as well as at the state and federal levels.