NAMI Washington 2020 State Conference

Manka Dhingra is Deputy Majority Leader of the Washington State Senate. She brings two decades ofexperience as a prosecutor and behavioral health expert to her roles as chair of the Senate BehavioralHealth Subcommittee and vice chair of the Senate Law & Justice Committee. She also... Read More →

Representative Eileen Cody was raised on her family’s farm in Iowa. After graduating from high school, Eileen earned an associate’s degree in nursing from the College of Saint Mary and a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from Creighton University.Eileen recently retired after... Read More →

Katherine Seibel, Director of Public Policy & Advocacy at NAMI WA, began her career as a counselor at the residential level of care where she specialized in facilitating DBT Mindfulness and trauma-informed yoga groups. During her MSW studies, Katherine interned in a high school offering... Read More →

Melanie Smith, MPA has been lobbying for 15 years, and lobbying in Washington State since 2009. Her work focuses on Health and Human Services, with a concentration in behavioral health, long term care, and child abuse prevention.