Brien Thane has been Executive Director of the Washington State Farmworker Housing Trust since November 2006. The mission of the Trust, which was established in 2003 through the leadership of U.S. Senator Patty Murray, is to create a better and more sustainable agricultural community in Washington State by securing and investing resources to address the full spectrum of housing and related needs of farmworkers in our state. Prior to being hired as the first Executive Director of the Trust, Thane spent 18 years developing farmworker housing throughout Washington State with the nonprofit Office of Rural and Farmworker Housing based in Yakima and was Executive Director of that organization for 11 years. Thane has 29 years experience in low-income housing issues. He was President of the Washington Low Income Housing Alliance until November 2007 and continues to serve on the Alliance’s Executive Committee, as he has since 1993. He was a board member of the National Rural Housing Coalition for eleven years and an officer of the National Farm Worker Housing Directors’ Association for five years. He has been a member of the Washington State Housing Trust Fund Policy Advisory Team since 1992.

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