At Mother Mentors, we envision a community where all families with young children on Whidbey Island thrive through support and connection
Our Leadership
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Laura McAlister
Board President
Since joining the Mother Mentors Board of Directors in 2022, Laura McAlister has drawn on her decades of expertise in early childhood education, parent education, literacy development, and anti-bias curriculum to serve as Board President. With a career encompassing leadership in nonprofit management, program innovation, and professional development, Laura has devoted herself to supporting children, families, and educators in building equitable, high-quality learning environments. Laura enjoys hiking, traveling and spending time with grandchildren (ages 3 and 6).
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Jane Bothel
Executive Director
Jane has served with Mother Mentors since 2014 as a Board member, mentor, and Playscape volunteer. As Executive Director, she draws on her career as a project manager with a specialization in finance, legal affairs, and management of consultant teams. Her commitment to Mother Mentors is fueled by her desire to support Island families and to mentor and equip the next generation of leaders in this important work. As the organization transitions from its founding leadership to a new group of Board members, she looks forward to new ideas, energy, and opportunity for growth. She is also involved in various artistic endeavors as a musician.
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Caitlin Stanton
Development Director
Our Staff
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Diana Bergman
Playscape Facilitator, Oak Harbor
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Megan Gaydosh
Program Coordinator
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Tasha Miller
Program Coordinator
Tasha is passionate about nurturing parents and building community. At Mother Mentors, she supports families with young children, and through Mother Wild—the global motherhood collective she co-founded—she co-facilitates retreats and an online community for mothers. When not chasing her three children and chickens, she leads a local Girl Scouts troop, encouraging the next generation of community leaders.
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Jeanette Bothel
Our Board
Values We Practice
We foster healthy, positive family relationships for those we serve, for our staff, and for our volunteers.
We facilitate relationship-building among families in our programs and between families with staff and volunteers.
We value the inter-generational nature of our work.
We demonstrate integrity, honest, and transparency at all levels of our organization.
We are accountable to our families and our community.
We acknowledge that there are opportunity gaps for many young children and families based on race, ethnicity, gender, income, ability, culture, and geography.
We commit to eliminating these gaps and addressing the root causes.
We commit to approaching our work with a sense of cultural humility and inclusion.
We commit to becoming better listeners to the voices and concerns of people of color and those from non-traditional family structures to further our understanding of how to combat disparities and better support all families in our community.
