Mark McDuff
Board Chair
Mark McDuff is a software engineer, with a B.S. in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology. He has worked at Facebook since 2010, primarily building systems to detect and remove spam and other forms of abuse. Mark lives in Queen Anne, but can often be found at the larger off-leash areas across town exercising his Vizsla Annapurna and GSP Saska. He looks forward to one day being able to exercise them at a large off-leash area closer to home. Mark has been a member of the COLA board of directors since 2016.
Mathew Johnson
Vice Chair
Mathew Johnson works with technology in the Advertising space and graduated from the University of Washington (Go Dawgs!) with two B.A. degrees in Business Information Systems and Communications New Media Technology. He is also a published author of the book CRM Fundamentals. Mathew lives in the Magnolia area and can often be found at many of the parks throughout Seattle with his wife Heidi, lab Leo and pitty Delilah. Mathew has been a member of the COLA board of directors since 2015.
Janice Butler
Treasurer
Bio Coming Soon
Alisa Natal
Director
Alisa Natal is a website developer and graphic designer at Rocket Fish Studio. She has a long history of caring for and about dogs, having worked at Seattle Humane and once-upon-a-time as a “Dog Wrangler” at a doggy daycare! Now she focuses her dog-centric energy to taking care of foster dogs and building a stronger dog community in her neighborhood through the Dog SQAD group (Seattle Queen Anne Dogs). Alisa joined the COLA board in 2016 to assist in obtaining an off-leash area in her community, for her dog Izzy and her many pup friends in the neighborhood!
Kenneth Wright
Steward Coordinator
Kenneth Wright is retired and a has an AAS in network administration. He has three Chihuahuas (Blue, Swirly and Carlto) who live with him in his South Lake Union home. His hobbies include watching baseball, playing with his dogs, repairing computers and taking care of the Denny Park and Substation Off Leash Areas. He has served as the steward coordinator for COLA since November 2018, and is working to maintain all the off-leash areas as nice and safe places for all Seattle’s dogs and dog owners to go.
Sharon LeVine
Emeritus Board Member
Sharon LeVine served on the COLA board for over 20 years! Her extensive knowledge of our organization, both historically and presently is invaluable. She resigned from our Board in 2019 and continues to serve as Emeritus.