Senator Claire Wilson

Washington State Senate | Legislative District 30

Sen. Claire Wilson has represented the people of 30th District since 2018. In her time as Senator, Claire has been a strong proponent of reform in the juvenile justice, child welfare and corrections systems. She is motivated to disrupt the institutions that keep people where they are instead of providing them the tools and resources they need for successful reentry. Claire is proud to have sponsored legislation ending the use of solitary confinement for youth, as well as a bill providing post-secondary education opportunities in the Department of Corrections. Claire has been the force behind major education, early learning,  and justice reform legislation.  She sponsored Senate Bill 5395, which requires all Washington public schools to provide comprehensive sexual education. She also championed the landmark Fair Start for Kids Act, which invested $1.1 billion to make childcare and early learning more affordable for Washington families. Before her time in the legislature, Claire taught 11-21 pregnant and parenting teens and was Program Director for the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Supplemental Food and Nutrition Education Program in a rural community in Montana.  She currently Chairs the Senate Human Services Committee and Vice-Chairs the Senate K-12 Education Committee. 

Beth Tinker

Beth is a Clinical Nurse Consultant/Nurse Advisor at the Washington State Health Care Authority (WA’s state Medicaid agency). Her nursing experience is in Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Public Health, home visiting, and management. Beth completed her PhD in Nursing Science at the University of Washington in 2019, where she was awarded the Robert Wood Johnson Scholar Award for doctoral studies. Her research and clinical interests include health disparities, infant mental health, protective factors for children and families living with complex adversity, breastfeeding, early intervention, home visiting and public health nursing.  At the Health Care Authority, she focuses on Medicaid clinical programs and policies across the reproductive health continuum and care for children and families, with a focus on perinatal and infant mental health. 

Camille Schultz
(she/her)

Supervising Coordinator of the Mental & Behavioral Health Team at WithinReach

Camille has a degree in Health Psychology with a focus in Public Health from Bastyr University and has been working within the social service field for 6+ years. Camille and her team assist pregnant and postpartum clients experiencing substance use disorder through the statewide community-based pathway of Plan of Safe Care and the King County Substance Use Disorder Pregnancy Pilot. Holding expertise in perinatal substance use disorder resources and trainings, providing Help Me Grow wraparound services that are custom tailored to clients’ and their household’s needs as well as offering warm handoffs in partnership with organizations throughout the state is at the core of the Mental & Behavioral Health Team.

Ash Woods
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Harm Reduction Doula with the Harm Reduction Doula Collective

Ash Woods (they/them) is a full spectrum doula practicing on Coast Salish lands in Seattle Washington. They view doula work as community work, and are dedicated to dismantling the stigmas associated with perinatal drug use. They helped form the Harm Reduction Doula Collective to meet the needs of pregnant people using drugs.  

Elizabeth Moore Simpson
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Program Manager for Parent Resilience Program at Perinatal Support Washington

Elizabeth Moore Simpson is a mother of two and also identifies as a bereaved parent. She has worked with new families for over ten years before coming to PS-WA.  She has dedicated her career to the work of ending health and economic disparities for communities furthest away from opportunity. Through an infant-early childhood mental and maternal health lens Elizabeth has practiced as a full-spectrum doula, restorative justice circle keeper, child and family therapist, and community organizer for racial and economic justice. 

Anne Stone MA, MPA, CDE
(she/her/we)

Director, Washington State Fatherhood Council, DSHS Economic Services Administration 

Anne Stone is the Washington Fatherhood Council Director and Early Childhood Innovation Director at the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, Economic Services Administration. A central part of that role is as a founder and director of the Washington State Fatherhood Council which works to amplify the voices of fathers to be the fathers they aspire to be for their children, families, and communities. This cross-cutting state-level coalition made up of state and nonprofit providers, academics and advocates, and most importantly fathers with lived experience, promotes fatherhood inclusion, access and belonging to maximize children’s potential. 

Anne has 30-plus years of experience in the child and family services field as an innovator and change agent in youth and family crisis, child healthcare transformation, early childhood systems, poverty reduction, and fatherhood inclusion, as a funder, non-profit executive director, community consultant, crisis counselor, and state agency innovator.