A Letter from Housing Hope Board Chair, Kirby Duncan
- matthewjager4
- Mar 27
- 2 min read
Dear Community Members and Supporters of Housing Hope,
It is with great pleasure that I share with you some great news about an appointment we have made with senior administrator Kathryn Opina as Interim Chief Executive Officer for Housing Hope and HopeWorks. Ms. Opina has served the organization as the lead operations and general administrator for the last two years. She worked under Donna Moulton, the former CEO, who left the organization at the end of February to attend to family matters in Florida.
Ms. Opina came to the agency with significant non-profit fiscal and operations experience. She has over a decade of administrative, programmatic, and property management experience with the Salvation Army. The Interim CEO reports to and collaborates with the Board of Directors to provide leadership continuity for Housing Hope and its subsidiaries, including Housing Hope Properties and HopeWorks Social Enterprises Agency. She will serve in this role as the Executive Board commences a search for a permanent CEO.
The Board has expressed their confidence and support for Ms. Opina in this important transitional role. She and the rest of the Strategic Leadership Team have a proven record of leadership and focus on Housing Hope’s core mission to provide affordable housing and tailored services to residents of Snohomish County and Camano Island. . We look forward to working with the entire team as we prepare for the next chapter of executive agency leadership.
Direct communications to Ms. Opina can be sent to kathrynopina@housinghope.org
Thank you again for the support you give our agency and the community members we serve.
We hope to see you at Stone Soup on May 15, where you can meet Ms. Opina in person.
Sincerely,
Kirby Duncan
Chair of the Housing Hope Board