Our Team
Our small team of four has a combined 72 years of experience providing accounting, tax, operations and consulting support to individuals, small businesses and non profits. More than just providing transactional services, we are a partner. Our unique service offerings extend your in-house or personal capacity so you can focus on your mission, business, community and family. We take pride in friendly and personable service. If you are our client, we actually care about you. If you don’t want to be cared about by us, you can’t be our client. Read more about our values.
Erin Louis, CPA, President and Founder
My work has always centered on noticing what’s missing and building solutions that communities actually need. At the start of my career, when a 2010 court case created unprecedented tax rules for same-sex married couples, I saw traditional accounting firms ignore the people most affected, and how that dismissiveness left even seasoned CPAs without the technical or cultural competency to support an entire community. When CPAs with decades more experience started asking me for help, the pattern of systemic neglect was undeniable, and it ultimately inspired me to found Advocate Accounting in 2013.
Over the years, that same gap-closing approach has shaped the business’s direction, leading to a strong focus on community-based service and advocacy organizations. We’ve become well-known for our deep knowledge and experience with affiliated 501(c)3 and 501(c)4 organizations with political and advocacy activity.
Eighteen years into my career, I am still driven by the same commitment to close gaps and make complex systems easier for the people who rely on them.
Erin was raised in the San Francisco Bay area on the ancestral lands of the Muwekma Ohlone People. Today she lives and works on the ancestral lands of the Nisqually, Squaxin and Cowlitz People near the present-day towns of Olympia, Tenino and Dupont.
Emily McLongstreet, Staff Accountant
Emily (she/her) joined Advocate Accounting in 2023 with over 15 years of bookkeeping experience. Whether crunching numbers for a flower farm, public television station or general contractor, she has approached every stage of her career with enthusiasm and an open mind, guided by the principle that no task is too small if it needs doing. As a fresh transplant to the Pacific Northwest, she is looking forward to exploring all the lush natural beauty the region has to offer. She is also a lawn sport enthusiast, quick to create a playlist for any occasion and would like to pet your dog.
Lisa Niverson CPA, Accounting Manager
Lisa (she/her) joined Advocate Accounting in 2023 and has well over twenty years of public accounting experience, specializing in tax planning & preparation, auditing, accounting, and consulting. She has experience working with all entity types, including individuals, small businesses, counties, cities, and nonprofit organizations. She takes pride in working with and supporting her local community. She enjoys spending her free time outdoors, on her mini ranch caring for her horses, mini KuneKune pigs, Irish Wolfhound and two feisty ginger cats.