Gena Post, Ed.D

Executive Director
gena@wbw.org

Gena joined the WBW team in 2019 as a Program Manager and was quickly promoted to the position of Director of Operations in the fall of that year. While committing to her new role with the organization, Gena was able to fulfill her degree requirements at Seattle University and earned her Doctorate in Educational Leadership in May of 2020. Gena was recently promoted to interim executive director prior to the 2022 summer season. She has seen the organization adapt dramatically since the onset of COVID. She is grateful for this experience as its leveraged her ability to lead a diverse team during uncertain times. Throughout her time with WBW, Gena values that she has partnered with an organization that allows her to put into practice leadership frameworks to facilitate the mission of WBW through curriculum development.

Gena has lived in the Pacific Northwest her entire life. In fact, before moving to Washington, Gena was born an eighth generation Oregonian, with her family as one of the original Oregon Trail settlers. Currently, Gena lives in West Seattle with her husband, her two dogs, and one cat. You can always find her planning for her next trip abroad.

Samantha Peart

Bookkeeper

Samantha is a Pacific Northwest native, she grew up in Gig Harbor, WA. Her first job right out of high school was an accounting assistant in the Accounting department at the University of Puget Sound. She decided that Accounting was a great career choice and then went on to get her bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Central Washington University. She has over 15 years of accomplished work in the field of Accounting and has worked for very large and small organizations. She enjoys working with nonprofit organizations and feels that providing them with her accounting knowledge is her way of helping further their mission. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family and is an avid gardener, she loves to grow fruits and vegetables in her garden.

Danielle Ina Urmaza

Marketing and Program Specialist

Dani comes from a small town in the Philippines, but she considers herself as a citizen of the world. She graduated with a degree in Business Management in 2014, and she has then started and managed small businesses throughout the span of her career.

In 2022, she joined Washington Business Week as a part-time dedicated assistant. A few months after, she joined the organization full-time as a Marketing and Program Specialist.

Outside of work, she enjoys language learning, cooking, traveling, and leading a healthy active lifestyle.

Aiyana Holloway

Operations Manager

Aiyana grew up in the Pacific Northwest lived on Vashon Island for the first 20 years of her life. She earned her associate degree in Psychology from Seattle College in 2018. She is now a senior at the University of Washington Tacoma and will be graduating with her bachelor’s degree in Communications in 2022. In her free time, she enjoys exploring the national parks near where she lives and playing with her dog.

Nitsa Ambriashvili

International Student Recruiter

Nitsa Ambriashvili is from the country of Georgia and is a freshman at Ilia State University, where she studies International Relations. She has been a Young European Ambassador for more than two years. 

She has participated in three business weeks before: Boleslawowo Business Week 2019, Virtual Washington Business Week 2020, and 2021 in the Advanced business pathway. Last year, she was an International Intern at the WBW.

 In her free time, she loves playing the guitar, singing, reading books, studying graphic design, and painting.