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Some of my most rewarding memories come from working to help my children and others like them in our community have the chance for a good education. So, I tried to contribute where I felt I could do the most good.  For 11 years I was a member of the Snoqualmie Valley School Board and served two terms as president. The Board decides matters of policy for the School District. In those years we had an annual budget of between $30,000,000 and $40,000,000 with over 400 employees and serving 4,500 students. Our Board was recognized as the best in the State of Washington for its size of district (2001) by the Washington State School Directors Association. The Board was recognized nationally as one of 25 of the best Boards by the official publication of the National School Boards Association (2002), for work in technology. (See photo for 2002 award).  We were also honored by proclamations of the state legislature and King County Council.. I have also enjoyed a number of fun years as a soccer coach, basball coach, chess tournament host, and cub scout leader.. These days I enjoy sailing, fly fishing and bicycle riding.

Scott has a unique background of combining 21 years of active law practice, including having been at the US Department of Justice and a partner at one of the largest law firms in the Northwest, with 16 years of senior management roles with technology companies and consulting practice with technology companies.

Miya Nazzaro is the Managing Attorney at Nazzaro. Miya counsels her clients from a business-centered approach by leveraging her general counsel background with her unique experience as an entrepreneur and executive in finance, development, and risk management. She works with her business law clients to ensure that they have the best representation possible on their business law matters, whether they are pursuing a new government bid or are negotiating a major financing agreement.. She has worked with clients to successfully develop and execute business strategies that led to explosive revenue growth and scalable legal systems. As part of the overall business and exit strategies, she has negotiated multi-million dollar federal and foreign government contracts, teaming agreements, strategic agreements, and asset purchase agreements. In addition, she has counseled clients on corporate governance matters such as risk management practices, the adoption of policies and procedures, and effective training programs. She has overseen government audits and instituted policies and procedures to streamline compliance functions. Miya helps clients understand how to effectively integrate legal insights into operational management and why it is important that legal functions should not sit divorced from other business functions.. Miya began her passion for integrating business functions into nonprofit organizations while a Business Honors Student at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. While attending the Washington College of Law at American University in Washington, DC, she started a development and management consulting firm serving the nonprofit sector. Within several years, the firm expanded to serve high-growth technology companies. In 2015, she began to work exclusively with one of her clients, Nobel-nominated Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG) as VP of Finance and Development and lead in-house attorney for risk management and legal matters. In 2019 she joined the Association of Certified Commercial Cannabis Experts (ACCCE), a pre-revenue company in the ancillary commercial cannabis sector that educates risk management professionals, as General Counsel and VP Finance. She founded Nazzaro in 2022 to serve entrepreneurs, growth businesses, and those in the nonprofit and social enterprise sectors.

Melissa Morgan Nelson is General Counsel for SanMar Corporation, the nation's premier supplier of wholesale apparel and accessories.