About Me

I am white, cisgender, and come from an owning class background. I am ethnically and culturally Jewish, although I was raised Quaker. My dad’s family escaped the Holocaust in 1941, and their experience of assimilation into America – and, more specifically, into whiteness – has shaped my understanding about the intersection of race and class in this country.

I grew up in New York City and moved to the Seattle area in 1991. I am a long-time resident of South Seattle and am co-parenting fabulous 13-year old twins. I also have an adult child and two adult stepchildren. When I am not engaged with my kids, I love spending time in the mountains, playing board games, having intimate conversations with friends, and discovering local coffee shops and hole-in-the-wall restaurants.

Experience

Philanthropy

My professional work is informed by, and informs, my lifelong personal relationship with wealth and philanthropy. I participated in numerous donor networks for over 25 years and in 2017, I co-founded a private foundation that supports transformative organizing for systemic change. I approach philanthropy with a lens of redistribution and reparations.

Donor Organizing​

In addition to my personal giving, I have supported other donors to increase their giving to align with their values. I currently do resource mobilization for Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), speak publicly about giving through a reparative lens, and provide 1:1 coaching for people who are trying to align their giving with their values. During my time as a regional representative for the Institute for Policy Studies, and a member of the local Washington Progress Alliance, I organized people with wealth to speak out on behalf of a range of progressive revenue and tax fairness campaigns.

Nonprofit Work

I earned an MBA from the JL Kellogg School of Management, and I began my career on Wall Street, but have spent the last 25+ years working with nonprofit organizations and foundations. My most recent leadership position was as Co-Director of the Real Change Homeless Empowerment Project (2009-2017).

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