Our People

Jackie Bui has been working with the non-profit sector for 20+ years.  At Youth Eastside Services (YES), she has provided various services such as basic needs, clinical counseling, community outreach and engagement, parenting classes, youth support and life-skills groups, and advocacy for individuals, families, and communities by removing gaps and barriers to access services.  Currently, she is the Chief Operating Officer  at YES.  She has extensive training in evident-based practices such as in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Promoting First Relationship (PFR), Parent-Child Interaction Therapy(PCIT), and is qualified in crisis and suicide risk assessment and intervention. She is a certified Child Mental Health Specialist (CMHS) and Ethnic Minority Mental Health Specialist (EEMHS) for Latino and Asian Pacific Islander populations.

Jackie earned her Master‘s degree in Social Work from the University of Washington, where she concentrated in Children, Youth and Families. She is bicultural and bi-lingual in Vietnamese.  She believes diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are active processes required to ensure all voices can be heard through active listening, respect, compassion, open-mindedness, and no judgment.

Scarleth is a certified diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) professional, racial equity practitioner and a seasoned housing policy expert. Scarleth spearheaded transformative initiatives in some of the nation’s largest housing authorities. As the inaugural Senior VP of DEI at the King County Housing Authority, Scarleth played a pivotal role in advancing equitable practices. Prior to her tenure in King County, she served as the founding director of the Office of DEI at the Chicago Housing Authority, where she established programs and activities aimed at enhancing cultural competency, collaboration, and access, especially for underrepresented populations. Her diverse background includes serving as an Aldermanic Aide and Director of Legislative Affairs for the City of Chicago 1st Ward Alderman, where she honed her skills in community engagement and policy development.

Scarleth is committed to support Eastside For All to promote inclusivity, accessibility and advance equitable practices aimed to eliminate discrimination in all its forms.

Scarleth holds a master’s degree in urban planning and policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago, as well as a bachelor’s degree in global studies from the University of Minnesota. She is currently participating in the Adaptive Community Leadership Program at Leadership Eastside and has been a Leadership Greater Chicago fellow since 2018. Scarleth is a first-generation immigrant from Mexico City, and brings additional insights from her time living many other cities including Minneapolis, Paris, Las Vegas, Chicago, and now the Seattle metropolitan area.

Heather has been working in the not-for-profit sector for 20 years all across the country. She has worked with youth at outdoor centers, led expedition trips in the High Sierras and Joshua Tree, as well as water-based trips in the Adirondacks. Over the years working with the YMCA, Heather has been involved with diversity and inclusion work by becoming a trainer for the YMCA in this field. For years she has worked other YMCA professionals to create spaces that challenge the way diversity, inclusion and equity are presented within YMCAs, as well as finding more ways to operationalize these practices.

Most recently Heather was the Executive Director with the Bellevue Family YMCA where she engaged with partnerships with other Eastside  community-based organizations. Her goal has been to support more community-based organizations on the Eastside and create a welcoming space for more BIPOC communities.

Heather is a transracial adoptee from S. Korea and grew up with her parents in the greater Los Angeles region. She holds a Degree in Sociology with a Religious Studies Minor from the University of California, Riverside, along with a Masters in Recreation Administration from California State University, Long Beach.