Jeff Brittain - President

Jeff and Mona Brittain have lived in Ocean Shores since 2015. Jeff is a retired life and health underwriter. Mona and Jeff enjoy motorcycle riding, travel, reading, following the Los Angeles Dodgers and living the beach life. Their children and grandchildren live in Western Washington. Jeff and Mona are originally from Southern California but were happy to move to Washington to get away from the smog and the traffic. Jeff is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego.

Becky Moore - Vice President

Becky Moore has been visiting Ocean Shores for at least 50 years. Now retired, she and her husband Gayle have made Ocean Shores their retirement home. Their grown children and two grandchildren are delighted to have a house so near the ocean in the family.

After working in the nonprofit sector, she’s excited to use her skills and experience to give to the community here. For as long as she can remember, libraries and books have provided her great joy, guidance and education. When on the road she used local libraries to work from and hold meetings. And made a few copies too! She loves to travel (with lots of research reading beforehand) and practice photography (improved through reading of course). And thanks to the wonderful artistic community in Ocean Shores, she’s learning watercolor and other expressions of arts and crafts. When taking a break from all that, you can find her relaxing with her husband, and a book, with a cat or two on her lap.

Alex Suarez - Secretary

Alex Suarez Ph.D. has lived in Ocean Shores since 2016, when she retired from teaching at Antioch University's doctoral program in Psychology. She loves the library and likes the people who read, view films, listen to music, meet and enjoy the library because they are learning and being intellectually engaged and interesting. She joined the Library Board in order to support all those people and the continued evolution of the library as a defining cultural space for Ocean Shores.

Alex is a psychologist, with a doctorate and masters degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Washington and a post-doctoral masters in Psychopharmacology from Alliant University. She discovered early on that one can always count on learning to feel engaged and challenged (that is why she loves the library), so she holds certificates in French Literature and Translation, Psychoanalysis, Scientific Illustration, Non-fiction Writing and a post-doc in Dialectic Behavioral Training as well as a lot of practice in meditation from Ridhwan. Now she likes to learn about the natural world around Ocean Shores and studies watercolors at the Northbeach Artists' Guild. You can also find her riding her tricycle around town and the beach. She recently discovered that it is also fun to cook. She volunteers for COASST bird research, the Coastal Interpretive Center and for North Beach PAWS. She lives at the tail end of Duck Lake with her wonderful husband Richard, with Percy the cozy cat, and with Lady the Brittany mutt.

Leon Brauner

In the summer of 2003 Leon and Roberta Brauner moved to Ocean Shores from Bloomington, Indiana following Leon’s retirement from the faculty of the Department of Theatre and Drama at Indiana University. During his career as a costume designer Leon served as an officer and board member of several national and international organizations. And, as you might guess, costuming productions that are set in other historic periods or are about a significant historic subject require research. Consequently, Leon spent a considerable amount of time in libraries and museums studying artifacts and reading historic accounts of people’s lives. Libraries and museums are Leon’s second home. He feels privileged to be able to volunteer some of his time to his new community library.