Siri Kushner, Chair

Siri grew up on Bainbridge in west Port Madison at a time when there were no backups on 305. She has worked for the Kitsap Public Health District since 2005, starting as an epidemiologist and recently moving into a new role as public health infrastructure division director. She is active with the Bainbridge Ometepe Sister Islands Association and serves as a board member of the Kitsap Immigrant Assistance Center. She lives in central Bainbridge with her husband and two kids. She is honored to be part of HRB and participate in ensuring Bainbridge has a place anyone can call home.

Laura Van Dyke, Vice Chair

Laura is a semi-retired civil engineer specializing in transportation planning. She is also an enthusiastic volunteer for the global nonprofit Partners in Health (PIH) and is the proud community advisor for the high school students leading the Bainbridge Island Youth PIH Engage team. Laura has deep respect for how PIH refuses to accept that any life is worth less than another, and like HRB, believes that a key component to health is access to housing. She is excited to help HRB meet its goals. Laura enjoys beach walks, puzzles, hiking, snowshoeing, and spending time with her husband, children, and three grandkids.

Jane Stone, Treasurer

Jane moved to the island in 1984 and worked as a geotechnical engineer for nearly 30 years.  Most recently she served as executive director of the Bainbridge Island Land Trust, retiring at the end of 2021. Over time she’s seen first-hand the growth and changes on Bainbridge Island, including challenges associated with housing for all. She is excited to help advance the mission of HRB.

Asaph Glosser, Secretary

Asaph serves on the leadership team of the King County Housing Authority. His volunteer experience on Bainbridge includes several stints on COBI-appointed committees, including the Island Center Subarea Planning Process Steering Committee and the Human Services Funding Advisory Committee. Asaph also served as a commissioner for the Bainbridge Island Metro Park and Recreation District. In his free time Asaph spends as much time as possible either in his garden or exploring the beaches, mountains, and forests of the Pacific Northwest with his wife and two sons.

Tom Booher

Tom is a new resident of Bainbridge, having relocated here from the Bay Area in late 2024. Tom recently retired from a 30+ year banking career which focused on providing debt and equity capital to the multifamily housing industry. Much of this focus was in the affordable housing space, and Tom is excited to bring that background and expertise to HRB. In his spare time, Tom loves to be outdoors biking, hiking, paddling and spending as much time as possible with his two young grandchildren in Seattle.

Marsha Cutting

Marsha grew up in Wisconsin and Illinois, spent most of her adult life in upstate New York, and moved to the Pacific Northwest to be closer to her family. She sailed into Eagle Harbor on the last day of November of 2012, lived on her sailboat for 2 1/2 years, and then moved ashore. She almost left the island after receiving a 26% rent increase but was given the opportunity to purchase a home in HRB’s Ferncliff Village. She is a mostly-retired psychologist who does wheelchair hiking, advocates for disability justice, and is involved in anti-racism work. She is a poet and a former singer-songwriter.

Kayla Furnanz

Kayla has been a lifelong resident of Washington, but moved to Bainbridge Island in 2023. She came here with her husband and two children to be close to her master’s in counseling program in Seattle. Her family purchased a home through HRB, giving her kids a chance to grow up on this amazing island with its top-rated public schools. She has an caregiving business on Bainbridge serving older adults, and her husband is a teacher in BISD. Kayla is honored to serve on the board, knowing firsthand the importance of affordable housing.

Kathy Kalstrup

Kathy is a recent PNW transplant, having moved from the Chicago suburbs to Bainbridge Island at the height of the pandemic in 2020.  She has enthusiastically embraced our community becoming an active rower and board member at BIR and now an HRB Board member.  She has general management, operations, and HR experience at major global firms in addition to running a residential construction company back in Chicago with her husband, Mike.  She believes that diverse communities are healthy communities which brought her to HRB.  In her spare time, you will find her out hiking, rowing, biking, or on her paddleboard soaking up all that Bainbridge and the PNW has to offer.

Norm Landry

Norm is a recently retired general superintendent who has worked on Bainbridge Island for local and Northwest construction companies for the past 23 years.  Prior to moving to Bainbridge, he worked for 25 years in heavy civil engineering and Marine construction in Hawaii, the Pacific Islands, Alaska, and the West Coast. One of the many island projects he worked on was the second phase of Ferncliff Village project. It was through that project that he was introduced to the work that HRB was doing in the community. Norm welcomes the opportunity to use his experience and skills to advance the goals of HRB. His hope is to contribute to the ongoing effort to build more affordable and sustainable housing for the community.

Jane Schupay

Jane studied and lived in Philadelphia for thirty years where she raised her three children. She is a retired nurse with 50 years’ experience as a teacher and a nurse practitioner for women and children. Near the end of her career, she provided home care for the elderly as well as new mothers and babies. Jane has lived on and off Bainbridge Island since 2013. She is a clay artist and for six years owned a studio in Rolling Bay. She is a very satisfied resident of HRB at the Oliver, and most importantly, the proud grandmother of five amazing adult grandchildren. Jane is honored to be on the board of HRB with such hard-working, dedicated, experienced board members and hopes her experience will be helpful achieving the goals of HRB.

Peter Stiepleman

Peter joined the HRB board in 2024. He was an educator in Oakland, CA and Columbia, MO for more than 25 years. He most recently retired from serving as Superintendent of the Columbia Public Schools, an urban, suburban, and rural district with 19,000 children and 3,000 employees. Peter served as a commissioner on the Columbia Housing Authority, an agency providing affordable housing and services to low-income families and individuals. At present, Peter advises leaders and hosts An Imperfect Leader, a weekly podcast dedicated to lessons learned from leadership decisions.

Rachele Turnbull

Rachele is the retired founder of a local general contracting company. She worked with HRB on Ferncliff Village as well as the Friends of the Farms’ reHOME Project at Morales Farm. She has worked on many other affordable, sustainable, and transitional housing projects throughout the Pacific Northwest. She is passionate about sustainable and affordable housing and hopes to contribute to HRB’s efforts to bring permanently affordable homes to Bainbridge.

Viktor Volkov

Viktor is a Bainbridge-raised author. In high school, he served on the school’s human rights board, helped facilitate workshops on inclusion and anti-bullying, and spoke on several anti-discrimination panels in Kitsap county. His youth was spent interwoven with the Bainbridge music culture scene, fostering a sense of community for young people on the island. He has lived across the US and Europe bringing his international perspective on housing issues to the board. He currently lives in HRB housing with his three children and is pleased to be a member of the HRB board.