Hannah Cavendish-Palmer

SENIOR ASSOCIATE

Hannah Cavendish-Palmer has been on the front lines of organizational development for more than 15 years. She found herself in Nonprofit Interim Executive Director positions several times before embracing this work as part of her career path. Hannah loves leaning into change and helping organizations tackle problems so that they can build a better future.
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Having served in full-time, part-time, and contract executive roles, Hannah has led strategic planning and restructuring initiatives, budget creation and execution, stakeholder and donor engagement processes, board development, executive leadership recruitment and training, and infrastructure oversight and improvement. She has worked at the executive level in food systems, environmental conservation, education, and health.

Hannah has a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington and a Master’s of Public Policy from Simon Fraser University. She lives outside of Seattle with her husband, two kids, and three cats. Hannah loves spending time in the forest and eating locally.

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