Anne Johnson loves the outdoors. She hikes with Tuesday Trekkers almost every week, usually on mountain and stream-side trails.  During the winter she  is a cross country skier.   Anne is a board member of the Metropolitan Democratic Club, established in 1951 as an independent voice.

   Anne was introduced to fishing trips, mountain climbing  and camping by Ralph W. Johnson, who she met while a student at Univ. of Oregon.   Ralph and Anne married and moved to Seattle in 1951, where she graduated from the University of Washington.  They happily raised three children, now grown and doing well. 

   Kathy George has been practicing law, primarily in the environmental, land use, education and public records fields, since June 2006.  Before that she was a law clerk to Washington Supreme Court Chief Justice Gerry Alexander.  She also worked for 15 years as a reporter and editor at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, where she sometimes wrote about water pollution and other environmental issues. Kathy spent a summer as a legal extern for CELP while pursuing her law degree at Seattle University Law School.

    Kathy grew up in Long Beach, California, where the nearest “river” was a trickle of water surrounded by cement.  She and her son, Evan, have enjoyed visiting the Northwest’s ocean beaches, lakes, hot springs and streams.  Kathy is especially fond of Lake Quinalt and its rain forests. 

   Bartlett Naylor is principal of Capital Strategies Consulting, Inc. CSC, Inc. works with progressive organizations attempting to reform public policies where corporations play a key role. Clients have included the National Environmental Trust, Sierra Club, Wilderness Society, American Lands Alliance, and others.

   Formerly, Naylor served as Director of Corporate Affairs, Teamsters. He represented the Union on various committees, including the Council of Institutional Investors and a California legislative committee reforming securities law.

   He also served as chief of investigations for the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, where he led probes of the savings-and-loan crisis, corporate takeovers, and insider trading.

   He has authored thousands of articles on finance, health reform, and environmental policy. Among his books, he co-authored a history of American banking, a corporate governance analysis titled America’s Least Valuable Directors, and book on the community impact of corporate takeovers.

   He received his B.S.  from Harvard, and  also received an MBA.

   He is married to Nina Patricia Janopaul and they have two children: Elizabeth and James.

   John Osborn is the senior physician at the Spokane Veterans hospital, where he has cared for military veterans since 1986, and where he directs the VA’s programs for HIV/AIDS & Hepatitis C.

   John was raised in Bellingham and Boise.  His mother, Idaho’s first nurse practitioner, introduced him to medicine.  John’s father (and fishing partner), introduced him to Puget Sound and the rivers of Idaho.     

   John founded the Spokane-based Lands Council, and co-founded the Regional Ethics Network of Eastern Washington (RENEW).  He served for 15 years on the boards of the Washington Wilderness Coalition, Idaho Conservation League, Idaho Wildlife Federation, and for 22 years as the Sierra Club’s conservation chair for eastern Washington and Idaho.