Our Team
At WACAP, adoption is a personal as well as a professional commitment. Combined, our staff members have adopted more than 30 children. We have decades of experience, and every member of our Executive Leadership team has worked at WACAP for over 15 years. We maintain relationships and visit regularly with institutions, organizations and governments overseas. Together, the WACAP staff speaks a variety of languages including: Afrikaans, Cantonese, Dioula (West Africa), French, Japanese, Mandarin, Norwegian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. Additionally, there are currently 14 WACAP representatives based outside the United States, in the foreign countries where we work. Find out about employment opportunities at WACAP.
WACAP staff members are committed to providing love and care to needy children, one child at a time. Our work is supported solely by funding from adoption fees, donations, grants and corporate support. To find out more about how you can help WACAP in its mission to help children who need families, please contact us.
Executive Leadership
Lillian Thogersen, President & CEO
MaryAnn Curran, Vice President, Social Services
Mary Duncan, Vice President, Communications & Development
Mary Moo, Vice President, International Adoptions
Board of Directors
As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, WACAP is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors:
Laura McMillan, Administrator, Group Health Cooperative (Board Chair)
Lisa Norton, Attorney, (Immediate past Board Chair)
Dave Janssen, VP of Sales and Operations, F5 Networks (Vice Chair)
Natalie Shirley, President, Oklahoma State University (Treasurer)
Lisa Weil, Consultant, (Secretary)
Ellenore Angelidis, Director, Amazon.com
Kellie Berndt, T-Mobile
Beth DiDomenico, Naturopathic physician, Federal Way Naturopathy
Walther K. Goe, President, Capitalist Community, LLC
Linda Hildreth, Child Advocate
Erna Naert, Child Advocate
Shelly Ngo, Child Advocate
Uyen Nguyen, Product Manager, Amazon.com
Phil Rosnik, VP and General Manager, Goodrich Corporation
Rebecca Tenges, Child Advocate
Kathy Weymiller, Principal, Peninsula School District
WACAP Executive Leadership Circle
Cathleen Adkison
Katie Barclay-Robertson
Lew & Judy Bequette
Steve and Barbara Causseaux
Lynda Colucci
James & Sarah Davie
John & Hiroko Diloreto
Wayne & Cynthia Flood
Bruce & Lynn Gibson
Todd & Belinda Gray
Phil Hawley
David & Ginny Kreimer
Elise McClure
Ralph Munro
Ed & Kate North
Carmen Ray
Robert & Sherri Rogalski
Paul Shinn
The purpose of WACAP’s Executive Leadership Circle is to build and strengthen WACAP’s mission by involving visionary, professional individuals with strategic, social, philanthropic and entrepreneurial expertise. Membership is by invitation and is open to those who are available for only a few hours a year as well as to those who can devote a significant amount of time to a committee, project or ongoing activity. Interested in becoming a Leadership Circle member? Contact us.