Catherine brings to ArtsWA her diverse background in dance, theatre, film and architecture and design. Currently the Executive Director at Velocity Dance Center in Seattle, she has supported the arts by serving as a grants’ panelist for ArtsWA and facilitator for the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture. She also serves on the board of Khambatta Dance Company and is a King Street Station Advisor. Previously the Program Manager for Arts and Development at 501 Commons, she consulted with arts and other non-profit organizations to increase their organizational capacity. (Appointed July 2020 to July 2023)

Noël Moxley came to Yakima in 1995 to stay for 2 years and stayed thanks to getting involved in the community immediately. Noël started as the administrator of Central Washington Orthopedics and later became the Executive Director of the Yakima Symphony Orchestra. Noël has served on many boards, including United Way and both the city of Yakima and the Washington State Arts Commissions. Noël is currently on the board of Community Health of Central Washington, Tieton Arts and Humanities and Friends of Boxx Gallery. Noël is a fused glass artist. Noël has been involved with Rotary for over 20 years and all the projects that includes, and has traveled the world with Habitat for Humanity. Today Noël enjoys their home, garden, dog and reading as well as the city of Yakima and ArtsWA. (Appointed July 2023)

Terry Morgan’s Modern Enterprises is one of the most successful minority owned event Production Companies in Washington State. He has been serving clients since 1979 providing talent, production and technical services for cities, corporate clients, and civic occasions. He has a long history of performing arts presenting and performance, as well being immersed in the state’s creative economy as an active participant. (Appointed July 2022)

Tisa Matheson is a member of the Nez Perce Tribe and is originally from Lenore, Idaho. She has an MLIS from San Jose State University specializing in cultural records. She has been the American Indian Collection Curator at the NW Museum and Arts Center in Spokane since 2001.  Tisa is dynamic and thoughtful, a champion of native arts and heritage. (Appointed July 2022)

Jasmine Mahmoud is Assistant Professor in Theatre History and Performance Studies at the University of Washington. A performance historian, her work engages the Pacific Northwest arts sector, racial equity, and cultural policy. Jasmine has worked as a musician, theater artist, arts critic, and as a TeenTix Mentor and Teaching Artist. She serves as Board Vice President of On the Boards. She earned her PhD in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, MA in Arts Politics from NYU, and BA in Government from Harvard College. (Appointed July 2020 to July 2023)

Claudia Castro Luna is an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate fellow (2019), WA State Poet Laureate (2018 – 2021) and Seattle’s inaugural Civic Poet (2015-2018), the author of One River, A Thousand Voices (Chin Music Press), the Pushcart nominated Killing Marías (Two Sylvias Press) also shortlisted for WA State 2018 Book Award in poetry, and the chapbook This City (Floating Bridge Press). Her most recent non-fiction can be found in There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis (Vintage). Born in El Salvador, she came to the United States in 1981. Living in English and Spanish, Claudia writes and teaches in Seattle on unceded Duwamish lands where she gardens and keeps chickens with her husband and their three children. (Appointed July 2021)