Sweet Tea Connections Board Members
Founder & President
TATUM FETTIG
TFETTIG@SWEETTEACONNECTIONS.ORGTatum Fettig is a Mother to her two most precious children Judd and Teagan. On December 5, 2016 her two year old daughter, Teagan, was diagnosed with medulloblastoma (brain cancer). Tatum received her Masters in Education in School Counseling from Seattle University in 2009 and was a high school Counselor within the Issaquah School District for 9 years. Prior to being a high school counselor, Tatum worked within the social service field for 8 years working with varying populations which included homeless adults and teens, mental health and dual diagnosis clients in an outpatient mental health setting, homeless adults who were a part of the mental health and/or drug court in Seattle, and legal advocacy services for survivors of sexual assault. Currently, Tatum has the privilege to work as a MS Navigator for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Vice President
SOOZE JOHNSON
SJOHNSON@SWEETTEACONNECTIONS.ORGSooze Johnson has 22 years of extensive operations, sales, and marketing experience for the medical device, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology industries securing multi-million dollar Phase I-IV and medical device clinical research trials. Ms. Johnson has a thorough understanding of all areas of drug and device development including: early concept design and feasibility, drug development, verification, validation, FDA submissions, clinical research, and post-marketing surveillance with a special focus on supporting a product’s overall market strategy. In addition, Sooze managed and secured large-scale social policy and epidemiology research proposal efforts in numerous federal and state government arenas including the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control. She served as account manager for clinical trial sales including: population based studies with hospitals, clinics, and managed care organizations; prospective outcomes studies; Phase I-IV clinical trial sales; and pharmacoeconomic research projects that collect patient satisfaction, well-being, quality of life, and health care resource utilization data. In May of 2018, Sooze was thrust into the unsuspecting world of lung cancer that resulted in a left lower lung lobectomy to remove non-small cell cancer, (although she was never a smoker). The greatest part of volunteering for STC is the relationship Sooze has developed with Teagan “Sweet Tea” Fettig who adopted her as “Auntie Sooze”. Sooze’s most inspiring role model through treatment has been Teagan and her incredible resilience (and huge hugs).
Treasurer & Secretary
TOM SLINING
TSLINING@SWEETTEACONNECTIONS.ORG
Tom Slining worked as an audit supervisor with the Department of Defense, a consultant, and a contract analyst before becoming Teagan's "Papa" in 2014. His work experiences in the financial world were weighted toward cost accounting and cost and efficiency audits and included work and living in Seattle, WA, Boise, ID, and Germany (for work in Africa and the former Soviet Union). Tom is fully retired near the Cedar River where he enjoys cycling, running, hiking, traveling with his wife of 49 years (Suzy), cooking and hanging out with his grandchildren (Teagan and Judd).