Ronald Posthuma, President
Ron Posthuma is semi-retired enjoying family, community involvement and travel. He spent 38
years with the King County Department of Transportation in various leadership roles. From 1998-2013 he managed King County’s Transit Oriented Development Program which involved
negotiating development agreements including affordable housing on county-owned properties,
principally in surface park-and-ride lots. He also served on an intergovernmental committee that
allocated funding to affordable housing projects throughout King County. Ron has served in
multiple boards including the Washington State Transit Association, the Transportation Policy
Board, and the Puget Sound Regional Council which focused on regional issues at the Duwamish
Coalition. Ron co-founded the Proactive Persistent People for Progress (P4) in 2017 and remains active there. He received a degree in History and Political Science from Hope College and his Master’s in Public Administration from Syracuse University. He has been happily married to his wife of 45 years and is an active grandfather of four boys. He is a member of the Woodland Park Presbyterian Church Choir.
Paulina Lopez, Member
Paulina Lopez is the Executive Director of the Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition. She has over 25 years of experience working on issues of civil rights, social environmental justice, equity, education, and diversity. Paulina emigrated to the U.S. from Ecuador and has made Seattle her home for the past 18 years. She holds a master’s degree in Human Rights Law from St. Thomas University.
Elizabeth Romney, Member
Elizabeth Romney has lived in south Seattle for over 40 years. Although not a Seattle native, her
husband and son are so she too claims the status. Elizabeth’s passion is doing what she can to make
the world better. She was on the Board of King County Sexual Assault Resource Center in the 1980s and served on boards at her son’s elementary school. From 1999 to 2015 she volunteered for CARE USA in its work to support women and girls in developing countries, particularly Guatemala, Cambodia, Burma, and Afghanistan. She also regularly lobbied U.S. legislators and senators to support foreign aid. Most recently she has been a member of Washington Women’s Foundation since 2009. She has a BA in English and French literature and an MBA in finance, both from the University of Utah. Her work experience, largely in banking and the capital markets, included work in several large and regional banks. In her final career move, she and three friends ran a toy manufacturing company creating science toys for kids. Fortunately, the company, Be Amazing Toys, sold before the pandemic changed the world. Her true love is being outside: hiking, bike riding, skiing especially in the San Juan Islands and in Montana.
