Meet our Board

Todd Hutton – President

Todd Hutton retired as President of Utica University after 18 years, prior to which he served as vice president for academic administration at Willamette University (Salem, OR) for eight years. Todd received his A.B. from Davidson College (NC), his M.Ed. from the University of Florida, and his Ph.D. from Duke University. He also holds an honorary doctorate from Dong-eui University in Pusan, Korea.

Throughout his career, Todd has served on multiple boards, including the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities and the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC). He served as the chair of the Board of Trustees of New York’s Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities and served on the New York State Commissioner of Education’s Advisory Council on Higher Education. During his time in New York, he also was a member of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Central NY Economic Development Council. Locally, Todd volunteers for Habitat for Humanity, the Friends of Fort Worden, and his local homeowners’ association. He also served as interim chair of and consultant to United Good Neighbors and as a member of the Jefferson Community Foundation in his capacity on the UGN board. Read Todd’s full bio here.

Kathryn Malý – Vice President

As a former public school teacher, Kathryn deeply appreciates Habitat’s commitment to creating affordable homeownership opportunities for people who are being priced out of the communities in which they serve. Kathryn moved to Port Townsend in 2017, began volunteering with the Housing Solutions Network in 2019, and joined Habitat’s permanent affordability task force in 2021. Before moving to the peninsula, Kathryn taught in the Seattle Public Schools for a decade, then pivoted to conflict resolution work. She has mediated for the King County Dispute Resolution Center, the King County Courts, the City of Seattle’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Program, the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the Sound Options Group. Kathryn earned a BA from Whitman and an MA from Pacific Oaks.

Nils Pedersen – Secretary

Nils Pedersen is an attorney in private practice currently living in Port Townsend. He and his wife, Dr. Joyce Francis PhD, moved to Port Townsend in 2020 from Port Ludlow, where they lived for over 10 years after moving from the Washington, DC area. A native of Denmark, Nils’ family moved to the DC area in the 60’s. Nils was educated as a mechanical engineer and a lawyer, worked for the US Patent & Trademark Office as an Examiner, and then in private practice as a patent lawyer, finally retiring this past July from his firm, Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, LLP. Nils & Joyce have three grown children (scattered across the map), two dogs and two cats.

After moving to Jefferson County in April of 2008, Nils began volunteering on Habitat’s construction site, but quickly shifted to mostly helping with financial data entry in Habitat’s office. Subsequently, Nils served on the Resource Development, Finance and Governance Committees, and served as both President and Treasurer during 8 years on the Board of Directors. After a two-year absence, Nils has now returned to the Board, serving again in the role of Treasurer and as Finance Committee Chair. Nils has also served stints as Treasurer and as President of the Board of Trustees of Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (QUUF) in Port Townsend.  He and his wife have also offered courses on the Supreme Court at the Jefferson County Library, Peninsula College, Olympic College, and QUUF’s Adult Learning Programs.

David Rinn – Treasurer

During the course of a 30-year career, David served in a range of financial, corporate development, and executive management roles at Morgan Stanley, Microsoft, Ancestry.com, and Pendrell Corp.  From 2013 – 2019, he served on the board of CureHHT.  Most recently, after returning to school as a “mature student,” he has worked with an organization that leverages technology to battle against gerrymandering, empowering civic organizations and citizen activists to advocate for fair congressional and legislative districts.  David holds a BA from Vassar College, an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA, and a Master of Jurisprudence from the UW School of Law.  He and his wife, Laura, reside in Port Townsend, and have two children.

Christie Apker – Director

Christie has lived in Jefferson County for over 28 years and serves her community through both employment and volunteer work. Christie is deeply engaged in Jefferson County’s public safety and emergency management efforts. She is employed with Washington State Department Of Corrections as a Community Correction Officer. She is one of two officers in Jefferson County assigned to supervise adult felony offenders. Christie works with supervised individuals, their families, and community stake holders to reduce recidivism and enhance public safety. Christie is a volunteer with Discovery Bay and Brinnon Fire and Rescue as an Emergency Management Technician (EMT). Christie served her community and country as a member of the Washington Army National Guard. She served on two war time tours overseas and multiple deployments to Eastern Washington to fight wildland fires. Christie provides peer support to first responders who have been involved in critical incidents to keep them “mission ready” to serve. Christie also serves as crew and board member for East Jefferson Search and Rescue. Christie holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminal Justice. She and her family were the very first Habitat for Humanity of East Jefferson County homeowners.

Kevin Camfield – Director

Kevin is a third generation Port Townsendite.  He went to college at UW where he earned BS degrees in Chemical and Mechanical Engineering.  After that it was off to Procter & Gamble for a 32-year career that took him to Sacramento, Bangkok Thailand, Lima Ohio and finally Cincinnati before returning home to PT.  At P&G Kevin worked in Manufacturing, Engineering, and for the last 10 years, New Business Creation. He made laundry soap, diapers, cosmetics, and launched new businesses like Tide Dry Cleaners.  Kevin and Heidi have 3 adult children and love spending time outdoors.  Scuba diving, skiing, and rowing are his favorite pastimes when he is not building his new house or now working with Habitat to help build them for others.

Dunia Faulx – Director

Dunia Faulx has worked at Jefferson Healthcare since 2016 focusing on government affairs, population health, data analytics and care transformation initiatives across the organization. She has worked on innovative initiatives across the medical system, from behavioral health integration to advocating for modernizing rural hospital payment models. She has always been passionate about housing and developed the hospital’s first Population Health Housing Portfolio. Before moving into a career in rural health, she worked for several years as a program officer at PATH, a global health nonprofit based in Seattle, Washington, where she traveled 25% of the time, primarily to West Africa. Dunia received her Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Colorado. Dunia lives with her partner, two young children, two dogs and one cat and in her limited free time enjoys knitting and Zumba.

Jim Golden –  Director

In 2000,  when Jim and his wife Kendra were full-time RVers looking for a new place to live, they became Habitat Care-a-Vanners.  When they settled in Port Townsend in 2001, Jim joined the HFHEJC Board, and served a term as Treasurer  when the Habitat Store building was purchased .   Then, full-time employment as IT director at Skookum, combined with involvement at Quimper UU fellowship, became all-consuming and his Habitat involvement was on hold.  In 2019, when he finally retired, he became actively involved with HFHEJC again, first as a member of the Global Village build in Nepal, then as a member of the Finance Committee, and now as a member of the Board.

Jim holds a Ph.D. (electrical engineering) and an MBA.  His 45+ years of employment included many facets of computer software.  From 2009 to 2019 he provided implementation support to customers (including several NGOs and other non-profits) of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.

Tayloe Washburn – Director

Tayloe Washburn is a retired land use attorney. He first did work for Port Townsend 20 years ago and moved here in 2019. After graduating from Stanford University with a BA in History and MA in Education, Tayloe taught high school in Honolulu before moving to Seattle to secure a law degree at the University of Washington. His land use practice frequently involved housing, land use and growth management issues, and Tayloe was involved in housing issues with numerous non-profits. Tayloe served as a civic activist in Seattle, chairing the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, the Seattle/King County Economic Development Agency, and leading several education, transportation and housing bond campaigns. Tayloe moved from the legal profession to education when he started the Seattle Graduate Campus for Northeastern University in 2013. Tayloe’s wife Deborah Winter served as a leading lawyer helping the bond financing of most housing authorities in Washington State. Tayloe and Deborah are each engaged in a variety of nonprofit roles in Port Townsend.

Doug Young – Director

Doug Young is a retired economic and financial consultant who moved to Port Townsend in 2017. He has an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of Business and a BA in Economics from Middlebury College.

With specialties and experience including quantifying economic damages, financial analysis, strategic analysis of business competition, and forecasting market demand for new products and services, Doug enjoys analytical problem solving and seeks data-driven insights to effect change.

Doug became involved with Habitat upon moving to Port Townsend and being struck by the town’s friendliness. He first served on the Finance Committee but is proud to now be a member of the Board.