Doreen
Harden-Cato
13601 NE 8th Street #101
Bellevue, WA 98005
(425) 746-7056 (206) 323-6715n
http://www.firstplaceschool.org
Doreen Cato is currently
Executive Director at First Place, a nonprofit agency focused on assisting
families in transition and providing therapeutic programs for children
in grades K-6th. Prior to joining First Place, she was an educator in
the Detroit, Michigan schools, owner of a dance/movement studio in Bellevue,
employed by Washington Mutual, and later United Way of King County as
Director of the Greater Seattle Market fund raising division. Ms. Cato's
community involvement is very extensive. She has volunteered for 20
years in Seattle and Bellevue, on various boards, committees and task
forces. She was appointed in 1995 to the King County Housing Authority
Board of Commissioners by then King County Executive Gary Locke; she
serves on the Cultural Competency Committee for the Minority Executive
Directors Coalition, 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 recently
appointed by Governor Locke to the Washington State Advisory Council
for Homelessness. Doreen has worked as adjunct faculty at Antioch and
Western Washington Universities, including Leadership Institute of Seattle/Bastyr
University, in the masters program in Applied Behavioral Science. She
has a Bachelors degree in Art Education and a Masters in Applied Behavioral
Science, with an emphasis on organizational and human systems. Among
her many past awards and recognitions, she can add 1999 Who's Who in
America, the City of Bellevue's "Best of Bellevue" and Bellevue Business
and Professional Women's "Woman of the Year" award. However, as the
mother of Christina and Barron Cato, she believes them to be two of
her greatest accomplishments.
