Carrie is currently GFC's National Program Director. In her three years as GFC's Silicon Valley Program Director, she collaborated with more than 75 schools in the Bay Area and recruited more than 3,000 young women for the program starting in 2002. She has also delivered the message of Girls For A Change in hundreds of classrooms in the Bay Area and Phoenix. She has represented GFC at local organizations such as College Track, Youth Workers’ Roundtables and the Ravenswood After School Collaborative. She has also been a panelist and presenter at conferences including the National Mentoring Conference, Health Initiatives for Youth, Indian Business and Professional Women, the Latina Leadership Conference, Girl Day and the Young Women’s Health Conference. She will be a featured workshop presenter at the People to People Young Women's Leadership Conference in New York City in June and August 2008.

Carrie recruited and trained more than 300 women volunteer coaches and managed more than 100 Girl Action Teams during her time as the Silicon Valley Program Director. She also developed the GFC Coach Toolbox and Girl Manual and more recently, GFC's Change Your World Action Kit. Carrie is currently a member of the California Women's Foundation Advisory Committee on Youth, Media and Social Change and was selected for the Women Leaders for the World program at Santa Clara University for Summer 2008. She also completed the Bank of America Emerging Leader training program in 2007, Youth Leadership Institute’s Rising Leaders Fellowship in 2006 and served on the Advisory Board of Young Nonprofit Professionals Network in 2004.

Carrie began working in girl programming at the Girl Scouts of Santa Clara County where she started six new sports programs for girls of all ages and also provided support and guidance to teenage girls for the Girl Scout Gold Award. Carrie also spent two years in national service as part of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps. In this program, Carrie served as a corps member completing projects across the Western United States including urban rehabilitation and tutoring adult immigrants in English. She also led a team of 18-24 year olds in her Team Leader year through seven projects including, tutoring elementary schools students and trail building. In addition to her work at GFC, Carrie continues to be engaged in AmeriCorps. She is active in the Bay Area Alumni Network and with her training partner, Carrie develops and delivers the Cultural and Human Diversity Training for more than 100 Team Leaders and 900 Corps Members at three NCCC campuses throughout the country.

Carrie has also worked as an instructor with the Princeton Review, teaching math, reading and writing to urban fourth graders in Boston, MA. In addition, she helped coordinate the annual Walk For Hunger event attended by 40,000 people and recruitment efforts for the Ride for Hunger in Boston, MA. She has also worked as a sports writer for newspapers, magazines and online services such as the Daily Oklahoman, USA Today Online and Hockey Magazine. She is a graduate of Michigan State University.

contact
carrie@girlsforachange.org
408.515.8148