ABOUT ME
Let’s be honest, marriage gets a bad rap in the media and sometimes in our own friend circles. We’ve all heard marriage likened to “ball and chains” or being just plain old boring! I say, not so! It is what you and your spouse make it. I should know, my husband and I have been married for 20 years! Before getting married however, my husband and I could have benefited from the information shared in the How to P.I.C.K. a Partner course.​
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Now that we have a teenaged son and daughter in middle school, we're hearing lot's of conversation about what friends have boyfriends and girlfriends, which makes sharing relationship education deeply personal. This is not only my passion, but part of my mission. ​
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I've worked in the nonprofit sector my entire career. For fifteen years I have been dedicated to advancing an informed and equitable social sector. ​​​I've worked in volunteer recruitment and development at Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana where my fundraising efforts helped raise over $600,000 for the agency. I spent the next few years in the private sector delivering diversity leadership training for high school and college students and recruiting people of color for positions in the social sector.
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After honing my training skills in the private sector, I applied those skills as Training Coordinator for Foundation Center, now Candid where I focus on building partnerships across the South, strategic alignment, training and programming. Many of the challenges that plague our society are rooted in family trauma. I've seen grown men cry because of their desire to start a nonprofit to help fatherless boys grow into manhood. It's time to address the front end of creating a family by helping singles think through who they partner with and/or with whom they have a child.
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Prior to becoming a certified P.I.C.K. a Partner instructor and habits coach, I earned my undergraduate degree in political science from Florida A&M University and Master’s degrees in Philanthropic Studies and Public Affairs with a concentration in Nonprofit Management from Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI). In my free time, you can find me living vicariously through my daughter as an uber Girl Scout volunteer, exploring the region with my family, and strategizing ways to increase P.I.C.K. a Partner workshops in the community.
Oh, and I'm also a published author!