Marlys Erickson

Marlys Erickson is the former executive director of the Pike Place Market Foundation, where she raised funds for programs serving downtown Seattle's low-income residents. After leaving the Market, she has worked primarily with nonprofit affordable housing developers, including Plymouth Housing. Previously, she developed the fundraising program at the former Northwest AIDS Foundation and also served as a consultant to three of this station’s capital campaigns, Save KPLU and for the KNKX studios in Tacoma and Seattle. Erickson currently volunteers with Island Roots Housing and Friends of Ebey’s Reserve on Whidbey Island.