Leadership

AAWA Board of Directors

Officers

Harvey Bowen, President — Seattle
Harvey Bowen is a retired Project Manager specializing in financial management, transportation, and software testing. He also serves as Vice-Chair of the aligned nationally-focused organization Rail Passengers Association.

Gary Wirt, Vice President — Yakima
Gary Wirt is retired from the U. S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration. During his 35 year career, Mr. Wirt held several management and policy making positions relating to flight operations at FAA Headquarters Washington D.C. and managed several FAA field offices domestically and internationally. Mr. Wirt holds an Airline Transport Pilot Certificate.

John McIntosh, Treasurer -- Kennewick
John McIntosh is a native Tri-Citian who has been supporting passenger rail for years and advocates for, among other issues, the reinstatement of the North Coast-Hiawatha rail service over Stampede Pass.

Rocky Shay, Secretary — Federal Way

Directors

Robert Lawrence — Mill Creek

Jim McIntosh — Seattle

Gleb Sych - Yakima
Gleb Sych is a medical student at the Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences, currently completing his clinical rotations in Olympia, WA. He serves on the Economic Inequity & Health Taskforce of Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility. Gleb's primary interests lie in family and addiction medicine, and he is an advocate for improving public transportation accessibility and reforming Washington state's tax code.

Warren Yee — Seattle

Larry Yok -- Seattle
Larry has worked in the public transportation industry for 18 years. He was the first manager of Intercity Transit in Olympia and director of finance, budget, and administration of Pierce Transit. As a consultant, he proposed the first route maps for what became the transit systems in Longview-Kelso and Centralia-Chehalis. He also represented or advised C-Trans, Pacific Transit, Clallam Transit, Community Urban Bus System (now RiverCities Transit) and Valley Transit in their labor relations. Most recently he was on Sound Transit's stakeholders committee for the Federal Way extension and the West Seattle/Ballard citizens advisory committee.

Directors Emeritus

George Barner — Tenino

Kathy Davis — Federal Way

Lloyd Flem — Olympia
In Memoriam

Karen Keller — Lacey

Stephanie Weber — Kirkland

Contractors

Patrick Carnahan, Co-Executive Director — Seattle
Patrick is a Transportation Safety & Security Specialist at Sound Transit, and a former operator with Sound Transit’s T Line Link light rail. He is an experienced nonprofit administrator and writer. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Saint Martin’s University in Lacey. Patrick has a strong background in advocacy for economically and environmentally sustainable transportation solutions with a focus on passenger rail. He has spent a significant amount of time abroad and is inspired to apply creative solutions to help solve America’s transportation and land use problems. His writing has been published in the American Public Transportation Association’s Speedlines newsletter.

Charles Hamilton, Co-Executive Director — Seattle
Charles Hamilton is the founder and co-owner of CHCS Consulting, which provides research, organizational development, publicity, marketing and website services to a diverse national client base of businesses and nonprofit organizations. In addition, he writes about tech subjects and advocates for improved passenger rail and transit services. He holds a Ph. D. in communication from the University of Maryland, and has a certificate in organizational development and training from Georgetown University. He is a former board member of the Capitol Hill (Seattle) Chamber of Commerce, Rail Passengers Association, and other community groups.

Luis Moscoso, Government Affairs Director — Tumwater
Luis Moscoso is a former three-term former Washington State Representative, Vice Chair of the House Transportation Committee and co-founder of the Legislative Rail Caucus. Luis has over 20 years of experience in transportation, including as President/Business Agent of ATU 1576 with Community Transit, 5 years as Organizational Consultant on Community Transit’s Executive Leadership Team, 2 years on the PSRC Transportation Policy Board. He is a former VP of All Aboard Washington, and has served as AAWA’s Government Affairs Director since 2018.