About
For nearly twenty years I've worked in the nonprofit sector, and across that time I've come back to the same belief: that helping someone figure out their working life, or their learning life, or who they want to become, is one of the most human things one person can do for another. It's sitting with somebody. Taking them seriously. Not rushing. Trusting that they are the author of their own life and that the work is to be a good companion while they figure out what they want to write.
I started at the New York State Dental Foundation in Albany, then moved to Marist College, and then to PowerMyLearning back when it was still called Computers for Youth. In 2012 I joined QSAC, a nonprofit in New York City serving people with autism and developmental disabilities, where I spent nearly fourteen years in progressively senior roles, from Director of Development to Senior Director of Strategy to, finally, Director of Career Development and Communications. Most of what I understand about vocational rehabilitation and about how organizations actually work, I learned at QSAC, from the people we served and from colleagues who took the work seriously.
Along the way I taught political science as an adjunct at St. Francis College in Brooklyn: metropolitan politics through a comparative lens, and state and local government. It's still one of the experiences I draw on most. A lot of what I know about how to sit with someone while they figure something out, I learned in a classroom teaching someone how their city works.
People, and especially people with disabilities, deserve career services designed around them, not around the funding streams that reimburse the work.
I founded Lincoln Square Coaching in 2021, and in 2025 I left QSAC to run it full-time and to build what's come since. LSC began from a conviction I'd been carrying for years: that people, and especially people with disabilities, deserve career services designed around them, not around the funding streams that reimburse the work. Everything I've built since comes from the same place. Big Apple Coaching and The Grove extend that care to adults outside the vocational rehabilitation system. LINC Pro puts evidence-based assessment and AI coaching into software so that practitioners who don't have a whole team behind them can still do this work well. And my doctoral research, at the University of Illinois with Dr. Chang-kyu Kwon, asks a question I've carried for a long time: why do so many of us, trained to put people first, end up putting systems first? What would it take to change that?
I live in New York City with my husband Will and our Maltese, Vincent. I read widely and I'll lose whole afternoons to the bookstores around the city. I care deeply about history and civics.
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