Jen Trujillo, Interim Executive Director and Accounting Management
Jen Trujillo has been managing the Accounting for Watershed since July of 2021 and stepped in as the Interim Executive Director in July of 2023. She has been working in construction and real estate accounting in the Seattle area for over 25 years, has flipped three of her four Seattle homes and spends as much time as she can on Orcas Island where she is in the early stages of developing affordable housing. She is an active multi-instrumentalist, a student of dharma, a carpenter, a business owner, and a mom to two grown sons.
Kay Morrison, Debuty Director
kay@georgetowncda.org
Kay has a passion for art, for community and for fostering possibility at the intersection of the two. She has been walking the halls of Equinox Studios since 2007 as a part of the Iron Monkeys blacksmithing collective. She is stoked to now be in the employ of GCDA as a constructor of things and also of community. An avid Burning Man participant since 2000, Kay proudly serves on the Board of Directors for the Burning Man Project.
D.K. Pan, Community/Property Steward
property.manager@watershedcommunity.org
DK is excited to join the Watershed team; and looks forward to contributing decades of experience in the arts and affordable housing to the project and community. As an artist, DK investigates the intersection of place and memory – exploring the interstices and histories of site; the personal and collective body – through visual art, video, performance, public art, installation, interventions, and arts programming/organizing, They organized art interventions/cultural events such as TUBS and Bridge Motel; and projects with Sound Transit Art Program and Seattle Housing Authority. Professionally, DK has worked for Plymouth Housing Group and Community Roots Housing over the past 10+ years to address homelessness and create affordable, vibrant communities – in support of the maxim, ‘Housing Is A Human Right’. DK is also a part of the small team at Hugo House, literary arts center on Capitol Hill. dkpan.com .
James Morin, Construction and Maintenance Manager
james@georgetowncda.org
James Morin was born and raised in the Boise, Idaho area and has lived in the South Park neighborhood of Seattle for the last 7 years with his partner, Claire Putney. He has a large scope of professional experience, from packing mules and horses in the backcountry of California to building stadium roofs all around the country. James has been a community member and tenant of Equinox since 2014, working mostly in metal fabrication. While being around this amazing place, he has been able to help Sam and the Equinox community on some large build-outs and projects. This past year, James was hired full time for Equinox Development Unlimited working on special projects, building maintenance, and anything and everything that needs doing. In his down time James enjoys his garden, hiking, golf, and generally anything outdoors.
Claire Putney, Office Manager
claire@watershedcommunity.org
Claire Putney is a visual artist and community servant living and working with her family between Georgetown and Vashon Island. Her daily practice is grounded in listening, learning about different communication styles, and growing through creative collaboration. Claire comes to Watershed with experience working in a variety of non-profit and publicly funded arts organizations, with a focus on equity, accessibility, and education. When she’s not at Watershed, Claire can be found in the forest, in her studio, or concocting new recipes.
Bill Evans, Maintenance Assistant
bill@watershedcommunity.org
Bill, a Seattle native, comes to Watershed with a multifaceted background. He has worked at everything from landscaping to fabricating complex prototypes. He enjoys problem solving and the journey the path to a successful resolution takes you down. In his spare time he enjoys motorcycles, golf, camping and tinkering. He likes dogs and cats, prefers comedies to dramas, metal to wood, billiards to ping pong, Hawaii to Florida, fishing to tennis, showers to baths, charcoal to propane, and sunrise and sunset is a toss up. He is excited to help enhance your spaces to increase your productivity and elevate your mood.
Community Task Force
(Formerly the PR & Marketing Team)
We are a volunteer group of Equinox tenants who support and encourage community. We do this through planning and executing public and tenant events, including art walks and Open Houses, promoting Equinox artists through social media, a newsletter, and building community among Equinox tenants and Watershed folk. We take our work, the creation of fun and community engagement, seriously – but not ourselves.
We are small business owners, artists, artisans, designers and makers – and we value the experience each of us brings to the group. We look to each other for differences of opinion, bringing our true selves and various senses of humour to the table. We are guided by the Stone Soup allegory that small things contributed and mixed together will grow and nurture our community. We get a big buzz out of seeing what we are able to make happen together.
There is always room at the table for better jokes, more brilliant ideas, and folks to implement them. If you are interested in finding out more, we’ll save you a chair, just respond here.
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