Our Board
- Syrenka Slettebak, President
- Devon Love, Vice President
- Sara Rigel, National Delegate
- Holly Rowlette, Treasurer
- Mark Shaw, Member Recruitment Chair
- Rebecca Hall, Newsletter Chair
- Kya Schnettler, Programs Chair
- Rebecca Sutherland, Continuing Education Chair
Syrenka Slettebak, President
Syrenka is Manager of Community Health Education and Volunteer Programs for Northwest Kidney Centers, a non-profit, community based, healthcare organization. In this role, she manages community outreach efforts and health education programs which address the needs of populations most at risk. Before devoting her time to kidney disease prevention and organ donation promotion, Syrenka's background was in social and health services. She has worked for: Safeplace/Rape Relief, Thurston County Headstart/ECEAP, Harborview Medical Center's STD Clinic, Thurston County Refugee Center, Planned Parenthood's Sex Information Line, Cedar River Clinic: A Feminist Women’s Health Center, and The Evergreen State College Women's Health Clinic. She was a member of PNW SOPHE for six years before becoming Membership Chair. In June 2006, Syrenka was elected President of PNW SOPHE, and is currently serving her second term in this capacity. She is proud of all that PNW SOPHE has accomplished in the last year and hopes to build on our chapter’s success.
Devon Love, Vice President
Devon Love has worked in the health care field for over 11 years. In her day-to-day profession, Devon works as a health
educator for the Center for MultiCultural Health (CMCH), conducting community outreach and health education in the African American community on issues including diabetes, infant mortality and related diseases and health issues such as nutrition, obesity, physical activity and
cardiovascular disease. In her past five years with CMCH, Devon has helped to move the organization forward in its outreach efforts and goals through local and national presentations which have enabled the work of CMCH to be recognized and influential in the community.
Devon also serves as Chair for the Steps to a Health King County consortium, a grant funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, working to reduce the affects of asthma, diabetes and obesity on the residents of Seattle & King County. Prior to joining CMCH, Devon served as Education Program Coordinator for the Washington Health Foundation where she planned, coordinated and evaluated conferences throughout Washington State. One of the most treasured aspects of her life is to be able to provide linkages to information that her community may not otherwise access.
In her year as Advocacy Chair with PNW SOPHE, Devon has worked to bring additional value to PNW SOPHE membership by providing a link to National SOPHE through the “News U Can Use.” In addition, she previously worked as Coordinator of Youth Ministries for St. Mary’s Parish where she still has an ongoing presence.
Sara Rigel, National Delegate
Bio coming soon
Holly Rowlette, Treasurer
Holly is a student of the University of Phoenix and will graduate in October 2007. She is studying human services management. After graduation she is looking to pursue a Masters in Nursing from Seattle University. Previously, Holly completed an internship at Northwest Kidney Centers, where she is now working as a dialysis technician. Her professional experience is unique and varied. She has been a security guard, courier and bookkeeper and she even trained to become a fire fighter! In the role of treasurer, she oversees the financial health of our chapter, and has served in this role for 1 ½ years.
Mark Shaw, Member Recruitment Chair
Mark is our Member Recruitment Chair, and has set a goal of 'growing' PNW SOPHE by 25% this year. He has worked in the field of health education and wellness for 19 years, the last 12 with college students. Currently, Mark is Director of Health Promotion at Hall Health Primary Care Center at the University of Washington. He welcomes talking with people about ways they can live a healthier lifestyle. His special areas of interest include substance abuse prevention, men's health, smoking cessation, and stress management.
Rebecca Hall, Newsletter Chair
Rebecca is a 2006 graduate of Western Washington University’s Community Health program. While working nights full-time and attending Western full-time, Rebecca was a college peer health educator and assisted in numerous health education projects in her community.
Rebecca’s passion for community health and social justice can be seen in her vast array of experience in health education and program planning. While at Western she assisted in the planning and implementation of a skin cancer prevention campaign for childcare workers at Blossom Childcare. Similarly she assisted in the development of a mock breastfeeding program and campaign for Lummi Nation in order to increase the number of Native American woman who breastfeed in Whatcom County. Lastly, she assisted in the development of a migrant farmworker health survey in order to assess baseline farmworker health status in Whatcom County.
During her internship at Skagit Valley Hospital in Mt. Vernon, Washington she created an employee wellness challenge in order to promote employee health, assisted in the planning and evaluation of the 2006 Women’s Health Fair and Expo, and assisted in the planning and implementation of a Safe Routes to School Campaign for Lincoln Elementary. She has also been on the planning committee for Bellingham’s Bike to School and Work Day for the last five years.
Her technological skills have benefited the health education community. Besides designing numerous handouts, bulletin boards, and presentations; she designed the student and supervisor internship manuals for Western’s Community Health Program and assisted in the development of Western’s "Walk, Bike, Bus" Social Marketing Campaign to increase alternative transportation usage among Western faculty and students. Rebecca has a passion for community health and social justice and hopes to attend graduate school in the near future. Likewise she hopes to grow in her public health professional experiences and develop the needed skills to succeed and be an agent of change.
Kya Schnettler, Programs Chair
Bio coming soon
Rebecca Sutherland, Continuing Education Chair
Bio coming soon