Meet Our Community Members

As an architect, urban designer, business owner, citizen, Mike is committed to elevating the livability of the communities where he lives, works and plays. He values time with family and friends, and especially introducing his 4-year old daughter Ella to the wonders of the world around us. When outside his current home located between the Pike Place Market & Olympic Sculpture Park, Mike can be found at his Capitol Hill architecture studio, extensively walking the sidewalks of our city, or enjoying a cup of coffee at one of our great local roasters. Bicycling, snowboarding, hiking and time spent on the Coast provide him with an appreciation for the great outdoors of the Pacific Northwest. Mike’s obligation to CHUC stems from deeply held aspirations for quality of life, sense of place, and sense of purpose and the belief that these are best achieved in community. Grace is an architect and cofounder of Schemata Workshop.  She served on the national board of the Cohousing Association of the US for 4 years, holding positions of secretary and conference chair.  She also led the advocacy efforts for bringing affordability to cohousing movement and continues her work in that capacity.  Grace was born in Korea and moved to Seattle at the age of 3.  She attended architecture school at Washington State University and University of Washington. She lived in Chicago for 7 years after between degrees and has also lived briefly in London and Copenhagen.  She has visited over 50 cohousing communities in North America and Denmark.  She has many interests including cooking, downhill skiing, cycling, hiking, and camping. Ella is an inquisitive urban child, exploring all that the City of Seattle has to offer. She is enrolled in kindergarten at Lowell Elementary School.  Her many interests include dancing, singing, music, coloring, and skiing.

Doug and Kate have lived on Capitol Hill since 2004. They enjoy walking through the city (and other cities, too) with their son Leaf. Walking in the woods is a newer past-time for the family, as they’ve recently become owners of a car. Local music and great vegetarian food are passions that they enjoy together as often as possible. Kate is a mathematics teacher with Seattle Public School’s Interagency Academy. This is challenging work that she loves doing; bringing kindness, humor, and ideas and practices from secular mindfulness to her work with the youth that she serves. Kate enjoys yoga and spending time with her son Leaf and high school sweetheart and husband Doug. Doug is a librarian at Seattle University and is an avid reader, now happily sharing his favorite stories from his own childhood with his son Leaf. He is famous (in his circle of friends and family) for remembering nearly everything he reads and consequently knowing something about most things and a great deal about a few things. Doug prefers to get where he’s going by walking and is a generous and patient listener. Leaf is a third-grader at a nearby Waldorf school. He enjoys his friends, reading, dancing, performing, and getting dirty out-of-doors.

After raising her kids in Winslow Cohousing, Audrey believes cohousing is a great way to live. Creating community is one of her passions, and she is looking forward to helping create a sustainable urban cohousing experience. She is the director of finance and operations at YES! magazine. She loves the beaches of Puget Sound,  enjoys walking, kayaking biking, has season tickets to 3 Seattle theaters, and takes arts and craft classes for fun (jewelry, book-making, fiber art and more).

We are a family of 4 who enjoy living in an urban context. We live, work and play in Capitol Hill. A typical Saturday often includes: Jerry playing tennis in the park, Jack kicking a soccer ball with anyone who’s willing to join him, and Katelyn taking a hip-hop dance class.  We enjoy making and eating meals together, listening to music and playing board games (especially Settlers of Catan, Dixit and chess). Another family interest is reading.  At any given time, you’ll find a pile of books near our fireplace, or several ‘tabs’ open to various articles to be read on our digital readers. We love visiting Ms. Carol (the children’s librarian) at the Capitol Hill Library.  Katelyn and Jack run a book club at Jack’s school, their favorite read so far this year is Jack and the Seven Deadly Giants by, Sam Swope.  Jerry always has the most recent cookbooks and tech books in his queue. Jerry works as a web developer and just released a cookbook app and works with a variety of technologies. Katelyn is on maternity leave from the public school system.  Jack is a student, builder of Legos, maker of art, and lover of music. We have lived in community in the past, and are looking forward to sharing life more intentionally with an intergenerational group in the near future!

Paula and Gordon are both physicists and professors at the UW.  Julia loves being a student at Alexander Hamilton International Middle School.  We enjoy traveling together, especially to visit family in Vancouver, Ottawa and New Jersey or to explore our favorite places in Europe. We love living in an urban environment with great restaurants, museums, the market, the Olympic Sculpture Park and movie theatres in easy walking distance.  We also enjoy skiing and spending time on the water, swimming, sailing, canoeing, and kayaking.  CHUC is attractive to us because of its urban orientation and its multigenerational character.

Michael and Bambi keep busy with their four children, who range in age from preschool to high school. They love being a part of the CHUC community, and greater Capitol Hill community, and all the urban goodness that entails. Michael is an architect who works as a Research Associate for the University of Washington’s Integrated Design Lab, and Bambi is an Interior Designer who works as a Design Associate for Room & Board. This fun-loving family loves to travel and explore new cultures and cuisines, and is always ready to break into spontaneous dance when inspired by the right song at the right volume..