Doreen Cato is Executive Director at First Place, a nonprofit agency focused on assisting families either threatened with homelessness or homeless and providing therapeutic programs for children in grades K-6th. She has volunteered for 21 years in Seattle and Bellevue, on various boards, commissions, committees and task forces. She serves on the Cultural Competency Committee for the Minority Executive Directors Coalition, (MEDC) Bridges International Repertory Theatre Board, LIOS/Bastyr University Board of Trustees; she is a member of the Social Concerns Commission at St. Louise's Church in Bellevue; and was appointed by Governor Locke to the Washington State Advisory Council for Homelessness. She has a Bachelors degree in Art Education and a Masters in Applied Behavioral Science, with an emphasis on organizational and human systems.