WACAP is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, governed by
a 12-member Board of Directors:
Elaine Chan holds a Ph.D. in economics from
Cornell University. A native of China and now a naturalized
U.S. citizen, she has resided in the United States for
the last 27 years. Elaine's career history includes
several years working for multinational corporations,
focusing on corporate planning and analysis. She is
currently a wealth manager with the Global Private Client
Group at Merrill Lynch. She and her husband, Richard
Kuipers, also a naturalized citizen (from the Netherlands),
and their daughter, Fiona, reside in Sammamish, Washington.
Laurie Durr is employed by the nonprofit
American Cancer Society as managing director, IT governance
and division relations. She holds a bachelor of arts
in heath education from the University of Washington,
and completed MBA-level courses in business and project
Management. She is the mother of four children, two
of whom were adopted through WACAP. She volunteers at
her children’s schools, coaches for youth sports and
likes to garden, read and take RV trips with her family.
“We are a biracial family,” says Laurie, “who believe
in and support all that WACAP does.”
Daniel Fogel is a senior project manager
with Hewlett Packard. Dan lives in Fountain Hills, Arizona.
Dan's wife, Debra, is a past WACAP employee (Russia
program team leader).
Linda Hildreth, Chair, was born and raised
in the Seattle area, and graduated from the University
of Washington with a B.A. in business and accounting,
also earning her CPA at that time. She has a professional
background in finance and accounting, including time
in private industry as well as public accounting. After
a few years as an expatriate in France, she settled
down to focus on her family and assist with nonprofit
organizational activities. She and her husband have
two daughters adopted from China through WACAP in 1996
and 1998.
Barbara Manning
Phil Lillich, Vice Chair, is a registered
nurse with a master's in business administration.
Phil has worked for 30 years in healthcare, where
his experiences have ranged from working in an acute
care hospital as a pediatric intensive care nurse to
being a director of care management and quality
management. Currently Phil is manager of healthcare
services business process redesign for The Regence
Group. He and his partner live in West Seattle with
their 7-month-old adopted daughter.
Laura McMillan, Secretary, is an administrator at Group
Health Cooperative and holds an MBA from the University
of Washington. Along with her husband, Dale, she spends
most of her free time chasing after her daughter, Anna,
who was adopted through WACAP's China program in 2003.
Laura and her family reside in Shoreline, Wash.
Denise Montoya is a project manager. Her
multicultural family includes one Korean adopted daughter,
one Russian adopted daughter, and two Hispanic sons:
one domestically adopted and the other a birth son.
Lisa Norton-Motulsky, Treasurer, lives in
Seattle with her husband and four children, the oldest
and youngest of whom were adopted in China through WACAP
in 1994 and 2004. Lisa received a J.D. degree from Harvard
Law School. She has specialized in corporate tax matters,
and was previously employed by Amazon.com as a director
of tax. Lisa currently devotes her time to nonprofit
activities in addition to tending to her four children.
Lizzie Parker, a former manager at Microsoft,
is a fashion designer who focuses on designing with
environmentally conscious fabrics such as bamboo and
organic cotton. She feels a responsibility to use earth-friendly
fabrics in unique and chic offerings of garment-dyed
knits. Lizzie is a member of "1% for the Planet," an
alliance of small businesses that pay a voluntary earth
tax and donate 1 percent of all sales to non-profit,
non-governmental environmental organizations. She holds
a bachelor's degree in business and is a member of the
Women Business Owners Association. Her products are
proudly made in the USA, specifically Seattle, her home
turf, where she resides with her husband and two children.
Phil Rosnik
Diane C. Stein, M.D., is a child and adolescent
psychiatrist who has practiced in the Seattle area for
over 25 years. Dr. Stein and her husband, a retired
clinical psychologist, are parents of a 29-year-old
daughter and grandparents of a 7-month-old grandson.
Dr. Stein had a longtime affiliation with Seattle's
Central Area Mental Health Center, working with a largely
minority population; with Lutheran Social Services of
Washington, consulting with the social work staff serving
children in foster care and in the Southeast Asian Unaccompanied
Minors Program; and with The Casey Family Program, where
she consulted with mental health clinicians about children
in foster and adoptive care. She is currently working
several hours per week with underprivileged children
and families at Kitsap Mental Health Services, Bremerton,
as well as doing medical administration at a local health
plan. She maintains a small private practice in northeast
Seattle, near Children's Hospital, and continues to
supervise child psychiatry residents in her role as
clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington
Medical School.
Barbara Jo Sylvester, J.D., is an attorney
with the Tacoma, Washington, firm of McGavick, Graves,
P.S., where she has had a litigation practice since
1977. Her emphasis is on employment law and family law,
with a special love for adoption cases. She is married
with four children, two of whom were adopted through
the work of WACAP. She served a previous term on WACAP’s
Board of Directors, from 1984 to 1990.
