Who We Are

Kevin is originally from Tampa, Florida, and has always had a love and respect for the water and oceans and all that live and thrive in them. After moving to Bellingham in 2013, he found his home and genuine love for the PNW.

Kevin is also an active community member working on building community bridges for a stronger Whatcom County. He is actively involved in the Bellingham Tourism Commission and LTAC Committee. He is a nationally acclaimed artist and believes in giving back to those groups and organizations that need to be uplifted. In 2017, Kevin was named Man of the Year by the Bellingham Regional Chamber of Commerce.

The key to success is collaboration to amplify all voices. Everyone has a voice and purpose, and it is up to us to ensure that we are being good stewards of how we live. By building strong partnerships and community relationships, Kevin feels that everyone has the best chances for success and sustainability. His motto is “Be the ripple of positivity.”

When Kevin is not working, he has a passion for cooking and eating well. He also has a mean green thumb when it comes to gardening and has an infectious laugh and humor.

Tatiana loves the way SeaFeast brings together the many people who make Bellingham’s working waterfront what it is: fishermen, small businesses, artists, makers, educators, nonprofits, and community members. Through her work with SeaFeast, she has developed a deep appreciation for the maritime history and culture of the region and especially enjoys creating opportunities for local small businesses to connect with the community and grow.

Outside of SeaFeast, Tatiana is the founder of Place + Purpose, where she works with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations to build stronger systems, reduce organizational friction, and create workplaces where people can do their best work. With more than a decade of experience in nonprofit operations, finance, HR, grants, and community engagement, she believes that good systems are a form of care—and that the way organizations operate should reflect the values they say they hold. She also provides training and speaks on topics including trauma-informed organizations, motivational interviewing, leadership, and nonprofit operations.

When she’s not working on allocation spreadsheets, festival logistics, or organizational systems, you can usually find Tatiana making something. Her favorite creative outlets include knitting, crocheting, embroidery, watercolor, and wood burning. She is also an avid cook and gardener and loves living close enough to enjoy Vancouver, BC, while still getting to call the quieter corner of the Pacific Northwest home.

Logan Terry is an Alaskan Native artist born into the Tlingit tribe of Juneau, Alaska. He belongs to the Raven Coho moiety and was raised heavily in his culture. Logan moved to Bellingham in 2011 and has since been in and out between Alaska and Seattle, recently settling back in Bellingham due to his love for the community and area. Logan works as an assistant talent buyer at the Wild Buffalo. As well as being a bartender, running the street team, and helping with production. In his free time, he skateboards, which he’s been doing for 24 years now, as well as snowboarding, making art, and being in the evergreens. 

Lindsay currently maintains membership to the Global Grant Writers Collective and has experience working with both nonprofit and for-profit organizations across multiple states in the Pacific Northwest. She feels particularly passionate about promoting the stewardship of our natural environment and encouraging sustainable, healthy growth of our local economy to serve all members of the community.

She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Bellarmine University and a Master’s degree from Vanderbilt University. When she is not working, you can often find Lindsay beachcombing at low tide, kayaking or swimming in the bay, hiking with her husband, or trying out a new recipe in the kitchen.

Ben is a tribal citizen of the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation at the north coastal tip of the Redwood Forest, and was born and raised near Bellingham. Ben has been involved with music since he could walk, famously lifting a music stand to the front of his grandma’s choir to conduct as young as age 2. Music, land, and culture have formed Ben’s ethos triangle for just as long, growing into his tribal name, K’wvtlh-nee-sha~. 

For work, Ben serves as a teacher of cello and voice, the choir director at Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship, and a board member for Lushootseed Research Foundation’s Healing Heart Symphony project. Ben also sings with Lummi Blackhawk Singers on occasion, and is part of the Speaking Feather indigenous performing arts community. 

When Ben finally gives himself a break, he likes to go in the woods for fishing and berry walks, to the diamond for baseball with his brothers, to his parents’ house for much needed family time, and to the computer for a game or two as a little treat. 

Dan Tucker was a traditional-rig sailor and guided eco-adventure tours by boat in Alaska before settling in Bellingham. He now helps manage programming at the Whatcom Working Waterfront Coalition, where his experience in the maritime industry can blend with his previous design and computer background to help advocate for our maritime trades and industries.

Mark has been working in fisheries science and policy for over 25 years. After graduating from the UW School of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences (B.S. & M.S.) he started working for NOAA Fisheries. His work at NOAA took him all over the country, from Alaska, to the Pacific Islands, to the East Coast at NOAA Headquarters. Much of his career was spent at the nexus between fisheries science and fisheries management and policy. While at NOAA he developed one of the first marine climate vulnerability assessments (CVA) for fish stocks. This CVA methodology has been used all over the U.S. and its use has spread internationally.

Mark finally moved back to the Pacific Northwest to be closer to the place he loves. Landing in Bellingham he found a job as a fishery biologist at Lummi Nation. "After working on national issues, and projects all across the nation, I find it very rewarding to be working back in the PNW at a hyper local scale. It's exciting to make a difference for tribal members and the Bellingham community."

When Mark isn't working you can usually find him in the woods with his dogs or on Galbraith on a bike. Other hobbies include cooking (lots of seafood), "making sawdust" (woodworking), gardening, and traveling.

Tah-Mahs Ellie Kinley is a mother, a fisherman, and an enrolled Lummi tribal member. Every generation of her family since time immemorial has fished the Salish Sea. In her work to protect the life and waters of her people’s traditional territory, she has testified before US and Canadian governmental agencies, worked for Lummi Nation’s Sovereignty and Treaty Protection Office, and currently serves as an elected member of Lummi Nation’s Fisheries and Natural Resources Commission. Ellie was part of the Lummi team dedicated to defeating the proposed coal port at Xwe’chi’eXen (Cherry Point). Afterwards, she and her late husband, Larry, re-establish an ancestral Lummi reef-net gear as a way to continue protecting those waters. She is a founding and current board member of both the Whatcom Commercial Fisherman’s Association and SeaFeast. Additionally, she is the current and founding President of the Lhaq’temish-led non-profit Sacred Lands Conservancy.

My ancestorial name is Squad-dam-a-hon, which stems from the Snohomish/Snoqualmie territory and ‘Moon People’. I am an enrolled citizen of the Lummi Nation, which is a federally recognized tribe. My tribal lineage comes all the way from the Klamath Falls, Suquamish area to Canada Tlingit. For 10+ years, I have been commercially diving, crabbing, and fishing for seafood products within the Salish Sea territory, while mentoring my eldest son. Since 2017, I have owned the Lummi Seafood Market, located at Te’Ti’Sen (map area in the Lummi language, and now known as Ferndale). I have been a fishery person since early childhood with my father and uncles. Throughout my lifetime, I have learned fishery types, techniques, language, and stories from our Indigenous teachers and elders.

I feel passionate about keeping our seafood local to strengthen our local economy, food sovereignty, and understanding the intersection with the Indigenous-Native population’s history, policy, and current issues to raise awareness and the importance of supporting Indigenous peoples, food systems, and ways of life, as tribal people are responsible for 50 percent of the seafood sector, in Washington State.

In the Lummi way, “Our hands are up to you.” Hy’shqe (Thank You, in Lummi) to our community for welcoming diversity to the Bellingham SeaFeast Board. Look forward to this journey with you!