OUR TEAM
Peter Erickson
President
Peter Erickson is president of the development company Urban Fund specializing in residential and commercial in-fill development. Over the years he’s been on several school boards or their facilities committees and is still active in the Eastlake Community Council Land Use Committee. He’s lived on a floating home on Lake Union for over 45 years where he and his wife raised two kids. He’s a private pilot who loves flying and an occasional user of seaplane services. He’s also the president of the Seaplanes Environmental Coalition dedicated to finding an equitable balance between rapidly growing seaplane commercial enterprises and the numerous maritime, rental, recreational and commercial stake holders who depend on Lake Union for their livelihood.
Brigitte Bertschi
Vice-President
Brigitte Bertschi, born and raised in Basel, Switzerland was the founder of the Bertschi School in 1975 and its Head of School for the next 40 years. After years of teaching in Basel’s Children’s Hospital, working in Paris, France and traveling in Asia where she met her husband, she moved to Seattle and married Peter Erickson in 1974. She followed her passion of education by founding the Bertschi School in 1975 and has served and guided the growth and development of the school to its prominent role today as a leading center for early childhood education focused on the power of collaborative learning and the importance of the role of sustainability in daily life. She and her husband have lived and raised their two children on their houseboat on Lake Union
Darby DuComb
Legal Advisor
Darby is an accomplished multi-sector lawyer and executive with a passion for land use and mediation. She particularly enjoys working on intersectional projects involving the government, non-profits, and for-profit organizations. Darby worked for the City of Seattle for over 17 years as a lawyer, manager and executive where she launched the City’s Customer Bill of Rights, resolved complex multi-department service issues and led teams responsible for a number of complex, high profile matters such as the new SR 99 tunnel and U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit against the Seattle Police Department. Darby has a special passion for Lake Union, having lived in Eastlake for over five years. She is a graduate of the University of Oregon School of Law.
Danny Varona
Treasurer/Marketing
Danny Varona is a second-generation Sotheby’s International Realty® Realtor who specializes in unique homes such as floating homes and waterfront properties. He is a Lake Union resident, a boater, and a former Microsoft Advertising researcher. Armed with triple citizenship, three passports filled with stamps, and bilingualism, Danny Varona is a top local real estate advisor with a global perspective.
Mauri Shuler
Board Member
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Jen Loewen
Board Member
Jen Loewen, a Washington State native, is committed to a culture of local, thriving, sustainable businesses and staying involved in the community. To that end, she has sponsored, mentored, and collaborated with many nonprofit organizations, businesses, individuals, and events. 15% of working hours are set aside to develop, build, and strengthen communities in the greater Seattle area, and online communities as well.
Jen, a Seattle based product developer of Greenfire® Products, has set standard of developing, manufacturing, and distributing products that serve more than one purpose and are good for the environment. She continues to stress the importance of using and promoting green and multi-purpose products and living an environmentally conscious life.
Tung Le
Board Member
Tung Le, a Seattle area native of 40+ years. When not spending time with his two young children, he work supporting Alzheimer research.
Tanya Seligman
Board Member
I joined the Lake Union houseboat community in 1996 and have been enjoying the central location in the city and the ability to watch a wide variety of uses on the lake from large fishing boats to seaplanes to small pleasure crafts, kayaks and paddle boards. As the population of downtown Seattle has grown, so too has the recreational use on the lake expanded. Lake Union is a jewel in the middle of the city enjoyed by an increasingly wide variety of recreational boats, touring boats, boat rentals as well as being used for marine based businesses. I have definitely seen an appreciable growth in the overall use by recreational users & seaplanes and want that to continue in a safe manner.
My professional background is in healthcare having been a rehabilitation counselor for 46 years with 25 of those years in a multidisciplinary chronic pain clinic setting. I have been retired since 2016 and enjoying the lake even more.
Lynne Reister
Board Member
Lynne is a transplant from Arizona, after spending nearly 23 Summers coming to the Northwest to serve as a volunteer Sail Trainer aboard the Schooner Adventuress (1913), our local Washington State Historical Vessel. Living on the water in Seattle's Lake Union., and as a Professional Marine Surveyor and Investigator she serves the Northwest and beyond, she has a sensitive pulse on the Maritime Community.
Lynne is an advocate of Safe Boating and Environmental Protection of Washington's waters. As a Board Member for LULA-Lake Union Live aboard association, she helps to protect the environment, live aboard moorage, and safety and rights of structures/vessels on the water. She is a volunteer for the Center for Wooden Boats-Boat Resale Program, a Member of the Northwest Marine Association American Boat and Yacht Counsel, International Association of Marine Investigators and other organizations. She contributes Public Presentations on a number of maritime topics, including Electric Shock Drowning, Boating Safety, and other. She is a fierce advocate for her clients on the waterfront.