Bill Walsh
Bill graduated from St. John's University in Minnesota with a B.A. in Philosophy in 1969. He joined Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) in 1969 and served on a project in Salt Lake City, UT to identify high school drop-outs and tutor them for their general equivalency diplomas. Utah Issues Information Program, Inc., a statewide low-income advocacy organization, hired Bill in 1981 as the lead staff person on health and utility issues and networking with religious organizations. He became the agency's Executive Director in 1987. As EDO, he maintained his issue workload and also managed the agency's nine-person staff engaged in addressing low-income issues, including housing, welfare, teen pregnancy prevention, single parent family issues, job training, and adult and at-risk education. Utah Issues organized and sponsored annual events: Citizens' Day at the Legislature, Issues Conference, and Citizens' Budget Hearing, as well as briefings and monthly meetings between community groups and the Utah Departments of Health and Human Services. Bill was responsible for all fund-raising and administrative functions. He worked on issues full-time at the Utah State Legislative Sessions from 1979 through 1996.
Bill participated on numerous health and human services policy boards and advisory committees. These include the Utah State Medical Care Advisory Committee, Medicaid 1115/Block Grant Task Force, Utah State Job Training Coordinating Council, United Way of Salt Lake Executive Directors Association (Chair 1993-94), Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce Health Care Committee, Utah State Office of Education's Adult Education Advisory Committee, and Utah State Home Energy Assistance Target (HEAT) Advisory Committee. In addition, he served on the Catholic Peace and Justice Commission, the Episcopal Jubilee Ministry and Management Committees, and the Shared Ministry in Utah (Protestant) Social Concerns Committee.
Bill co-founded Walsh & Weathers, Inc., with Shirley Weathers in 1998. See Selected Projects for consulting activities. The Utah corporation closed in 2014 and together they opened Walsh & Weathers LLC in Oregon in 2015. Walsh & Weathers LLC also includes Rosebud Llamas and Rosebud Press as dbas.
Bill participated on numerous health and human services policy boards and advisory committees. These include the Utah State Medical Care Advisory Committee, Medicaid 1115/Block Grant Task Force, Utah State Job Training Coordinating Council, United Way of Salt Lake Executive Directors Association (Chair 1993-94), Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce Health Care Committee, Utah State Office of Education's Adult Education Advisory Committee, and Utah State Home Energy Assistance Target (HEAT) Advisory Committee. In addition, he served on the Catholic Peace and Justice Commission, the Episcopal Jubilee Ministry and Management Committees, and the Shared Ministry in Utah (Protestant) Social Concerns Committee.
Bill co-founded Walsh & Weathers, Inc., with Shirley Weathers in 1998. See Selected Projects for consulting activities. The Utah corporation closed in 2014 and together they opened Walsh & Weathers LLC in Oregon in 2015. Walsh & Weathers LLC also includes Rosebud Llamas and Rosebud Press as dbas.
Shirley Weathers, Ph.D
Shirley moved from California to Utah in 1969 to join a VISTA project that provided educational, medical, dental, and other services to Mexican-American and Navajo migrant workers. She returned to school in 1970 and in 1982 received a Ph.D. in Latin American History from the University of Utah after spending one year conducting research in Chile on a Fulbright Scholarship. While doing graduate work, she taught U.S. and Latin American history courses. She also developed finding aids for historical documents collections from Mexico and Central America held at the Genealogical Society Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Salt Lake City for the Center for Historical Populations Studies of the University of Utah. She also designed opinion polls, supervised surveyors, and analyzed results for Western Survey Research, based in Salt Lake City.
Shirley joined the staff of Utah Issues Information Program, Inc., in 1983. Over the next 13 years as the agency's Research Director, she studied various aspects of poverty and related public policy, producing numerous resources including reports, issue briefs, and articles to educate the public and decision-makers. She was lead staff specialist and lobbyist on public benefits programs, welfare reform, and at-risk students, also managing agency efforts pertaining to the State Legislature's appropriations process. She served on a number of policy and advisory boards, and task forces, including the Single Parent Employment Demonstration (SPED) Steering and Evaluation Committees, Utah State Office of Education's Students at Risk Advisory Committee, Utah Education Association's At Risk Foundation Board of Trustees, HEAT Advisory Committee, Utah State Data Center (Affiliate), Utah Women's Legislative Council, and Human Services Advisory Coordinating Committee. Shirley also founded and staffed the Utah Human Services Coalition, a collaborative organization focused on state budgetary matters related to special populations including low-income people, people with physical and mental disabilities, seniors, and members of racial and ethnic groups. She edited Utah Issues' newsletter for ten years.
See Selected Projects for Shirley's involvement in Walsh & Weathers, Inc. She co-owns Walsh & Weathers, LLC based on Oregon.
Resumes and publication lists are available upon request.