Board of Directors & Staff

Diana Fakhoury is the Foundation’s Executive Director, bringing years of organizing experience rooted in Palestinian-led advocacy. Diana co-founded Washington for Peace and Justice (WA4PJ) and led campaign strategy for Cut Ties with Genocide — a joint campaign between WA4PJ and Jewish Voice for Peace Seattle — helping secure a Caterpillar divestment of over $62 million from Washington state’s operating funds.

Diana is also an artist and designer whose creative practice spans music, fine arts, and multiple design disciplines, shaped by the intersection of modern diasporic life and ancestral cultural traditions. She has led large-scale community art installations for WA4PJ, weaving her artistic practice directly into movement work. A Palestinian refugee born in Kuwait, Diana resettled in the U.S. when the Gulf War unexpectedly displaced her family during a summer vacation to the U.S. She now calls Seattle home.

Phillip Martin is the Administrative Manager of the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice, where he keeps the Foundation’s administration, finances, systems, and records running and supports its staff, board, and growing volunteer and intern program. He came to this role after two decades of service in the U.S. Air Force and Space Force, where he led teams, built training and operating systems, and coordinated the work of large joint organizations.

A student at The Evergreen State College studying social justice and community organizing, Phillip is active in student governance and in building tools that make institutions more transparent and accountable to the people they serve. He was drawn to the Foundation through the South Sound’s peace and justice community, and stayed for its people and its mission — the conviction that peace with justice is built through steady, grounded, everyday work. He lives in Olympia, Washington.

Bill Dole holds a B.A. in Political Science and an M.A. from the UN mandated University for Peace ( UPEACE).  At UPEACE he studied how peace can be created through nonviolence, negotiation, international law, disarmament, gender equality, and transitional justice.

Bill became aware of the oppression of the Palestinians by  the time the Gaza Massacre – commonly called Operation Cast Lead – occurred in 2008-09.  Since then he made the difficult decision to visit Israel through Birthright, knowing how little the program shows you of the conflict  He was later able to visit the Occupied Territories through a study tour organized by Americans for Peace Now.  He first connected with RCF in early 2017 as a volunteer for the Public Policy / Communication Committee.

He spends the rest of the time with his family playing Qwirkle, or watching foreign Netflix series.

Nausheen has been a volunteer and ad-hoc designer for the Rachel Corrie Foundation for many years, and brings her passion for social justice and design to the organization, hoping to reach a global audience in order to amplify the Palestinian voice. She is a strong advocate for Palestinian rights and environmental justice and has participated in dozens of community events focusing on the Palestinian struggle. She is also a founding member of Palestine Action South Sound (PASS), which emerged in October 2023 as a response to the ongoing crisis in Palestine.

In her role at RCF, she aims to elevate the Palestinian narrative, using social media and design to connect global audiences with the foundation’s mission of promoting peace and justice. When she’s not designing, Nausheen enjoys sailing and exploring the Pacific Northwest trails with her family and friends, always seeking stunning views in nature.

Nausheen holds a BA in Design and Design Production, along with a minor in Environmental Studies from WWU. She was born in Kenya and lived in Botswana and Egypt before moving to Washington State in 2000.

Bio coming soon.

Cindy Corrie is the mother of human rights activist and observer Rachel Corrie who was killed March 16, 2003, in the Gaza Strip. Motivated by her daughter’s example, Cindy has dedicated herself to the pursuit of peace and justice in the Middle East. She has made numerous visits to Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza, including as a co-leader of three Interfaith Peace-Builder delegations. Cindy states, “Rachel wrote of the importance of making commitments to places and initiated one to Rafah and Gaza. The commitment that she made continues.”

Cindy resides in Olympia, Washington, where she serves as President of the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice. She and her husband Craig Corrie are recipients of a Human Rights Advocates of the Year Award from Seattle University’s Human Rights Network and a Pillar of Peace Award from the Pacific Northwest Region of the American Friends Service Committee. In October 2012, they accepted the Lennon Ono Grant for Peace on behalf of their daughter Rachel.

Photo: Rob Whitlock

Craig Corrie is the father of Rachel Corrie and a founding board member of the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice. He currently volunteers as Treasurer for RCF. He has, with his wife, Cindy, given talks on peace and justice throughout North America and other parts of the world. He has accompanied Cindy in her travels to Israel/Palestine and had the honor and privilege to make many friends in the area. In previous lives, Craig was a life insurance actuary in an executive capacity with several insurance companies and spent 1970 as a squad leader with the US army combat engineers in Viet Nam.

Sallie Shawl turned her attention to Palestinian human rights in the mid-1980’s when she met some Palestinians in Tacoma. She discovered that their stories were horribly similar to her uncle Richard’s in Austria in the 1930’s. As a Jew saying “Not in my name,” she began working with those Palestinians and others in Tacoma against Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. She retired in 2010 as Director of Paint Tacoma-Pierce Beautiful, a program that organizes volunteers to paint the homes of low-income seniors and people with disabilities. Shortly thereafter, she went to Israel and Palestine, returning home more committed than ever to Palestinian human rights and civil rights. In 2011 she was a co-founder of the Tacoma chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace

Jen Marlowe is a documentary filmmaker, writer, and the founder of Donkeysaddle Projects. Jen’s films include There Is A Field, Witness Bahrain, Remembering the Gaza War, Rebuilding Hope: Sudan’s Lost Boys Return Home and Darfur Diaries: Message From Home. Her books include I Am Troy Davis, The Hour of Sunlight: One Palestinian’s Journey from Prisoner to Peacemaker and Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival.

Jen identifies first and foremost as a social justice/human rights activist and considers her filming and writing to be tools of her activism. When not found filming, writing, protesting, or engaged in other forms of resistance to state and structural violence, she can be found backpacking, climbing mountains, or talking aloud to photos of Slider and Sadie, her neph-pup and niece-pup. She has human nieces and nephews (three of them biologically related and is an auntie to many others across the globe) whom she also adores. She is Just Vision’s Consulting Producer and was a Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellow.

Jen goes by she/her pronouns and lives and works on unceded Duwamish territory in what is now known as Seattle.

Therese Saliba is faculty of transnational feminism and decolonial studies at The Evergreen State College and a former Fulbright scholar in Palestine. She is co-editor of Gender, Politics and Islam and Intersections: Gender, Nation and Community in Arab Women’s Novels, and her essays have appeared in numerous collections and journals. Therese was associate editor of the Brill Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, and serves on the advisory board of the Gaza Mental Health Foundation. She is happy to be returning to the Rachel Corrie Foundation Board after serving as a founding board member.