Meet the Instructors

Maria Kolby-Wolfe

President & CEO, Washington Women’s Foundation

Maria Kolby-Wolfe is president & CEO of Washington Women’s Foundation. She served previously as director of development & communications for Northwest Immigrant Rights Project. Kolby-Wolfe proudly sits on the boards of TeamChild, Rainier Valley Food Bank, Global Leadership Forum and Allied Arts Foundation.

She has worked as director of development for Path with Art and ACT Theatre and in other fundraising roles at Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Museum of Pop Culture and Swedish Medical Center Foundation. Raised in Bellingham, WA, Kolby-Wolfe graduated from the University of Puget Sound and achieved doctoral candidacy in American History at Northwestern University.