Dr. Bozman is professor of marketing at Gonzaga University's School of Business Administration in Spokane, Washington. He brings significant leadership and expertise in marketing management, research methods, business planning, and new product development to his position on the board.

Since joining the faculty at Gonzaga University in 1990, Scott has held a variety of faculty positions including assistant dean and director of graduate programs, acting associate academic vice president, and associate professor of marketing. He currently serves as president of the Faculty Senate and is on the Promotion and Tenure Committee.

Scott is active within numerous community organizations and has provided pro bono consulting services to United Way Spokane, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Washington Department of Ecology, and Idaho Water Resources Board.

Dr. Bozman holds a bachelor's degree in business administration, a master's degree in economics, and a doctorate degree in marketing from Washington State University.

 

Rudy is Multicultural Services Director at Sea Mar Community Health Centers in Seattle, Washington. With a passion for reducing health disparities, he brings a wealth of expertise in the field to his position on C.H.E.F.’s Board.

Rudy is currently involved in several initiatives at Sea Mar Community Health Centers, all with a focus on addressing access to health-care. These include assisting with development of the Washington State Alliance for Healthy Communities of Color, the Consortium for Health Care Access in Pierce and Kitsap Counties, and the Institute for Latinos in the Health Sciences. In addition, after conducting a series of focus groups throughout Washington State to assess the needs among Spanish-speaking communities and those who serve them, Rudy founded the Latino Health Network of Washington State, now known as Latino Health Northwest.

Rudy has participated on several boards and statewide committees, including the Advisory Committee on Mental Health to the Commissioners in Vancouver, Washington, and the Washington State Human Rights Commission. He also serves on the board of Northwest Health Law Advocates.

 

Rick Mockler is the retired Deputy Director of the Snohomish Health District where he worked for the past 22 years. He is immediate past Chair of the Washington State Association of Local Public Health Officials and is a long-term Board member of the Washington State Public Health Association. In 2003 he was a founder of the Public Health Roundtable, a coalition of organization dedicated to securing a dedicated, sufficient and stable funding source for public health. He continues to serve as Chair of the Public Health Roundtable. Prior to coming to Washington, he served as Business Manager of the Crippled Children’s Division of the Oregon Health Sciences University.

Rick received his BS in Political Science from Oregon State University and his Master of Business Administration from the Atkinson Graduate School of Management at Willamette University.

 

Ricardo is the retired General Manager and one of the founders of Radio KDNA located in Granger, Washington. He helped to shape its development as a minority public radio station that produces quality educational programming for the Spanish speaking population in Washington State. With a focus on reducing health disparities, Radio KDNA's mission is to help communities overcome barriers of literacy, language, discrimination, poverty and illness.

As a leader in his community, Ricardo also serves as Executive Director of Northwest Communities Education Center, which is the licensee for Radio KDNA. Previously, he was Executive Secretary of the Washington State Commission on Mexican-American Affairs, and he was also a past member of the Board of Trustees for the Yakima Valley Community College.

Among his other accomplishments, Ricardo has been recognized with several awards including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Latino Radio Summit in 2002, the ACLU William O. Douglas Community Service Award, and La Voz del Campesino, an award from Washington State's Child Protective Services at its statewide "Diversity Is All of Us" conference.

 

Drew is a Principal and Business Leader at Mercer Consulting in Spokane, Washington, who brings valued human resources and healthcare expertise and perspective to the C.H.E.F. Board.

Drew has held leadership positions in numerous organizations during his more than thirty-year career. Most recently, he was President and CEO of Physician Hospital Community Organization, a regional TPA and PPO Network. Prior to that, Drew held roles in Executive Human Resources for firms such as Washington Trust Bank, Univar / Van Waters & Rogers, Inc., Ciba Geigy, SpaceLabs, and Sundstrand.

Drew is actively involved in several nonprofit Boards, serving as the prior President of the Board of Trustees for Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery; a member of the Board of Directors for the PHCO; and an Advisory board member for the Masters program in Organizational Leadership at Gonzaga University. He has also served as past President of the Pacific Northwest Human Resources Association Seattle Chapter. MacAfee received a Bachelors Degree in Industrial Relations from Northern Illinois University and a Masters Degree in Psychology and Organizational Development from Central Washington University.

 

Renée Rooker has led the Walla Walla, Washington Housing Authority as its executive director since December 1991. During her tenure the organization has expanded its portfolio through enriched partnerships and taking advantage of a wide range of financing mechanisms from low income housing tax credits, community development block grant, HOME, bond financing, historic tax credits and a variety of federal funding. The organization has received local and national recognition for their housing and economic development programs.

Renée recently completed a two year term as the national President of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials, a member organization representing more than 23,000 housing and community development professionals nationwide. During her term she advanced housing and community development policy issues with her testimony in front of congress and building relations with members of congress and their staff and industry partners.

Renée currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Housing Authority Risk Retention Pool; the Governor’s Policy Advisory Team for the Housing Trust Fund and is a member of the Association of Washington Housing Authorities legislative committee. During her career she has served on the Federal Home Loan Bank Affordable Housing Advisory Board, Governor’s Affordable Housing Advisory Board, Washington Community Development Loan Fund Board, and Impact Capital.