Board Members

My husband, Jim, and I celebrated our 40th anniversary last December and we have lived in Auburn all of those years. I taught for twenty-nine years; most of the time at Olympic Middle School teaching 7th Language Arts. Since we are both retired, we travel often but will always call Auburn home.
I like to garden, read, hike, play bridge, do crosswords and Sudoku's, and spend time with my grandchildren.

Jim and I have two daughters. Kate and her family live in North Bend. She and her husband have two children: Clara and Grady. Anne and her husband live in LA and have one daughter: Marni. Both of our daughters attended Auburn Schools and graduated from Auburn High School.

During my years in Auburn, I have been involved in the community and have particularly enjoyed my involvement with the food bank. Both Jack Laverty and Debbie Christian have been excellent executives and dedicated to the food bank. During my seven years on the board I have watched the food bank grow and change in order to better meet the needs of the clients.

Director of Transportation – ASD

Dana Hinman came to the Auburn Food Bank board of directors in 2006 and is currently serving as board president. She also serves on the board for ACAP Child and Family Services and Puget Sound Access where she is also the president of the board.

Dana is the Public Affairs Manager for the City of Auburn where she oversees all internal and external communication and outreach through the City's various media and communications outlets such as the website, government access television channel, printed material and the City's marketing, branding and public relations.

Prior to coming to her current position, she was the Multimedia Manager for the Women's Basketball Coaches Association in Atlanta from 2002 - 2005. She also was a teacher of World Languages in the Auburn School District from 1990 - 2002 where she taught Spanish and coached volleyball at Olympic Jr. High, Auburn High School and Auburn Riverside High School.

Born and raised in Auburn, Dana lives, works and plays in Auburn as much as she can and during the spring and summer months can often be found at the Auburn Golf Course enjoying a round of golf.

Kelly A. Jensen, raised from the cow pastures of Enumclaw, and the sugar cane fields of the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii has been a resident of Auburn's Lakeland Hills since 2002. Her educational background consists of an A.A. from Green River Community College, then a B.S. from Central Washington University in Family Consumer Sciences in the field of Secondary Education, with a minor in School Health along with a Career and Technical Education certification. She completed her journey in postsecondary education with a M.S. in Family Consumer Sciences with an emphasis in Service Learning from CWU. Since 2000, Kelly has taught at Auburn Riverside High School where she has been the Faculty Key Club Advisor since 2006. Because teaching and advising a strong community service based organization is not enough, Kelly is a sustaining member of Junior League of Tacoma, instructs Zumba and occasionally lectures for CWU. She recently had the amazing opportunity to experience the Leadership Institute of South Puget Sound and was a part of the 2010 graduating class. She enjoys networking in and with the community and instilling those concepts in her high school students. If she sees an opportunity for a WIN-WIN result, she jumps on it. Says Kelly; "You better believe I am opening the doors of opportunity so the future of tomorrow can grow with experiences to create some growth. It's our community, let's invest"!!

Peter has been a member of the Auburn community since 1974. He taught at Auburn High School for 27 years and started Focal Point Photography in 1989. His work with the Auburn Food Bank is an opportunity to give back to the community that has given so much to him. Hello to all his former student. Please help the Food Bank so they can continue to help others.

Dr. Martin was born and raised in California where he earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of California at Davis. He worked in scientific and industrial instrumentation for several years before leaving business to attend medical school at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. While successfully completing an accelerated residency in Family Practice at University Hospitals of Cleveland, he pursued special interests in women’s health, maternity care, and community medicine.

Dr. Martin has served on the Board of Directors of the Auburn Food Bank since 2005, and serves as the Division II representative on the Washington High School Boys Lacrosse Association board of directors. Active in the Washington Academy of Family Physicians, he chairs the Academy’s Commission on Health Care Services, is a member of the Information Technology and Child and School Health Committees and served on the Board of Directors of the King County Academy of Family Physicians from 2002 to 2006. He was named as a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians in 2006 and in 2007 was named to a four-year term on the Academy’s Commission on Quality. He lives with his wife, children, stepchildren and a few quadrupeds in Bonney Lake and enjoys kayaking and the outdoors.

Employer: Delavan Industries, Inc

Pat, a Seattle native, has been a part of the Auburn community for over 20 years, with wife Leahmarie, and 3 sons, Darren, Michael, Kevin.
He is a long-serving board member at the Auburn Valley YMCA since 1987, active in community, scouting, Knights of Columbus. In the auto transport business since 1973, currently West Coast Sales Manager for Delavan Industries.

Pat brings extensive fund raising experience and success to the Auburn Food Bank.