Joan Fanning
Executive Director
NPower

Joan Fanning came to NPower after 5 years helping nonprofit and governmental organizations use technology to better serve their communities — working primarily with human service organizations.

Prior to this, she spent 3 years as a Regional Manager for a software company providing technology solutions to the legal industry. Traumatized by one-too-many contract negotiations, Joan fled this job for an extended foreign exile. When she returned in 1992, a renewed sense of purpose led her to the Masters of Public Administration Program at the University of Washington, where she studied public policy and technology issues.

Joan is not (gasp!) a native of Seattle but comes from Southern Illinois where she learned that cow tipping is a joke played on city folk and to never, never, attempt to climb over an electronic barbed wired fence with baggy pants.

Besides her MPA, Joan has an undergraduate degree in Business from Washington University in St. Louis, with a minor in information systems management.

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