I grew up in New York, raised by a nurse and a businessman. In me, you see a part of each of them—a strong operator and a person driven to help others. That pull toward service showed up early.

When Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans during my high school years, I couldn't watch from a distance. I organized a community service trip to Louisiana with classmates. What I saw there changed my plans entirely. I turned down my university acceptance and spent a year serving with AmeriCorps NCCC—the domestic Peace Corps—feeding and clothing the homeless in Sacramento, teaching geometry in an inner-city Los Angeles high school, building homes with Habitat for Humanity in Louisiana, and helping Southern California wildfire victims rebuild their lives.

I'm proud to lead a Certified B Corporation and a woman-owned business.

But what actually drives this company is the belief I've held since New Orleans: that the everyday choices businesses make can either add up to nothing or add up to something meaningful.

I built Gifts for Good to make it easy to choose what's meaningful. Thank you for being part of that!