Board

board of directors

Rev. Paul Kacynski,
M.Div, M.A.

President

Rev. Paul Kacynski is the mission developer of Roots of the Table, a church in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America in downtown Renton. He also is the director of the non-profit Luther's Table cafe.
Rev. Paul has been involved with REACH for six years and is honored to be a part of an organization that is making such a huge difference for the most vulnerable communities of Renton and King County.

James Bruner

Vice President of Operations and Personnel

James is currently a member at St. Matthew's Lutheran Church, and is the Director Infrastructure Engineering & Operations at Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast. He has extensive experience managing technical teams in fast-paced, results-oriented environments. James has history of successfully driving resolution in a wide range of operational areas including enterprise system integration and design. He is able to create strategic alignment of IT delivery with business goals to create an effective partnerships.
James also volunteers regularly at the REACH Meal Coalition.

patti bowman

Secretary

Patti Bowman is a Seattle-based artist, who’s core technique is encaustic painting. Encaustic painting is a very ancient technique employing molten wax and a natural resin painted on to panels. She has maintained a studio in the International District in Seattle for 12 years and over that time has seen the homeless population in that area grow exponentially. She is seeking to learn more about the issues faced by those experiencing homelessness, and to learn what resources are available in the community. Patti studied science and art at the University of Calgary in Alberta and studied art at Emily Carr College of Art and design in Vancouver, BC, Canada. She studied encaustic painting at Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle. Patti has lived in Bellevue with her family for the past 19 years.

rahul joshi

Board Member

Rahul Joshi manages Datacenter Community Development at Microsoft, owning the delivery of community planning for 18 datacenter communities globally. This includes convening listening sessions with community stakeholders, planning of affordable broadband access, environmental sustainability projects, and community empowerment funding programs. For the past 25 years, Rahul has worked in strategy development, program management, and project execution. He has had various process management and program development roles at Boeing Telecom, Suncor, Cingular/ATT, and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Institute. He has volunteered in family shelter programs previously (in college), supported similar programs in Microsoft datacenter communities, and is interesting in learning how best to support REACH. He has a Master's of Science degree in Molecular Biology.

Howard McOmber

Board Member

Howard is a long time member of REACH and has a huge heart for serving those in need. Howard has been a Real Estate professional for many years in the Renton Community, so he has years of experience working with the business community and is eager to help REACH in the area of fundraising, especially as it requires improving our connections in the private sector.

HALMA ABUBAKAR

Board Member

Bio coming soon.

MELISSA GLENN