Board of Directors
Allison McGill
Allison McGill serves as Board President of the Family Jewels Foundation. A California native, she has has been living in the Pacific Northwest since 1996. She has been a broker with Windermere Real Estate in Kirkland since 2016, working with residential buyers and sellers. She uses her career in real estate as a vehicle for giving back to the Foundation and other local organizations. In 2017 she joined the Woodinville Rotary Club in memory of her two grandfathers, and she is the upcoming 2020-2021 club president -- only the second female to serve in that role and the youngest president in the club's history. When she's not working or volunteering, she loves to travel, enjoy new culinary experiences, and take advantage of PNW outdoor recreation. She lives in Kirkland with her rescue dog, Jack.
Stephen Zehnder
Stephen Zehnder is a Personal Banking Consultant with First Financial Northwest Bank located in Bothell. Originally from West Los Angeles, Stephen was involved in local organizations starting at a young age, volunteering and participating in community events, including the Boy Scouts of America, where he attained the rank of Eagle Scout. This was when he wasn’t spending time practicing the Saxophone, or training for his local Swim/Dive team. Stephen Graduated from Santa Monica College in 2012 with an Associate’s Degree in Business and Finance, having worked his way through College in a retail environment.
Stephen moved to the Pacific Northwest in 2015 and since then has embraced the local culture. In 2019, after becoming employed by First Financial Northwest Bank, Stephen also fell back in love with community involvement. This particularly fed his craving to spread awareness and education, driven by a desire to make sure that everyone has the tools they need to make their best decisions.
When he is not working or volunteering, Stephen can be found at home experimenting with new recipes; at the movies; at a farmer’s market; or wandering around on a hiking trail. Stephen currently lives in Kenmore and likes to stay active in the local community.
Micki Kunz
Micki Kunz is a Retail Relationship Manager, AVP with First Financial Northwest Bank located in Bothell, WA.
A true Seattleite, Micki grew up in Queen Anne a small community in Seattle, in the ‘80’s & ‘90’s, listening to all of the home-grown grunge bands at the Tower Records after school. Micki graduated from Seattle Pacific University in 2005 with a Bachelor’s degree in Business and returned to the same university to get her MBA in 2009, both times graduating with cum laude recognition.
Micki has earned a reputation as a self-driven passionate business professional with excellent communication, analytical and business management skills who has a passion for giving back to her community. Her experience has been in financial services industries since 2000. Micki has faced and overcome many adversities in her life, and she uses that to drive her passion to help others.
In her free time Micki enjoys watching her daughter play competitive club sports; going on family adventures with her husband, daughter and fur baby, including hiking and mountain biking; and traveling the world.
Nancy Balin
Nancy Balin was born in Massachusetts, the eldest of three daughters. She attended public schools in Andover and then graduated cum laude from Tufts University. She was lured to the Pacific Northwest by a nanny job in Kirkland when she was 24, and she fell in love with the Pacific Northwest and never left. Nancy received her J.D. from University of Puget Sound Law School (now Seattle University School of Law) and spent most of her legal career in public service for King County, Washington. During that time, she welcomed a daughter and son into her life through marriage. That son, Jaimeson Jones, was diagnosed with testicular cancer at age 14, went into remission at 15, relapsed at 19 and died at age 20. A few months after Jaimeson’s death, Nancy put together the first Family Jewels 5K and has put them on annually ever since.
In late 2017, having founded and run the Family Jewels Foundation part-time for seven years while working full-time as a lawyer, Nancy retired from lawyering to devote her full-time efforts to the Foundation, realizing that she had been given a life’s work that deserved as much time as she could give it.
