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CEO at Manifest, a platform providing just-in-time business intelligence, industry specific embedded education, and personalized coaching for the small business owner. Manifest is the first Humanist portfolio company. 

I am a founder and entrepreneur who has spent over two decades in the world of higher ed, specifically focused on improving college graduation outcomes with non-traditional learners. During that time, I built and led teams at companies including InsideTrack, Altius Education, and Helix Education. I then co-founded and served as CEO at ReUp Education (an Entangled company), which focused on improving success rates for college students who have dropped out. I built and scaled ReUp over the course of six years to a successful exit. 

I believe that small business is the heartbeat of our communities. In my city of Toledo, Ohio, I’ve seen small business owners entirely revitalize a community left decimated by the automotive industry. But these business owners don’t get the time, attention, and investment from the technology and education industries they need to help them succeed in the long term – despite there being an almost-universal appetite for it, across verticals. I am here to serve them. 

I love learning through service to my community, and especially at my childrens’ school - enriching my community with resources and connectedness provides context and inspiration for Manifest.

Co-Founder at Humanist, where I specialize in all things technical zero-to-one build. 

I’ve been a technical co-founder in the human potential sector three times over, most recently as Managing Partner at Future of Work Studios, where I helped launch Learn In (recently acquired by Degreed) and BookClub, an enterprise solution for developing readers and leaders. I am most proud of co-founding and building Degreed, currently valued at $1.4B, where I led the technical team. I relish building products from scratch – and then managing a scaling technical team throughout multiple iterations and stages of growth. 

I believe that AI is poised to revolutionize how everybody works, learns, and lives - if it’s designed to do so. If AI is only accessible to a few, there will be multitudes left behind in this fundamental shift. We have the power, and the obligation, to change that. 

I am insatiably curious, and believe there’s something to learn from anyone, anywhere. I credit curiosity with helping me find opportunity within and without my rural upbringing in Utah and Wyoming that propelled me into software development, company building, and now AI innovation. I wish for every learner the opportunity to be deeply interested and inspired. 

When I’m not reading, researching, and teaching, I’m traveling and making memories with my beautiful family of eight.

Co-Founder and General Partner at Humanist, where I specialize in new product innovation and management. 

I am a serial entrepreneur in the human potential space, steering numerous ventures including Academic Engine, Hobsons, Altius Education, Practice, and Ivy Bridge College. I am most proud of co-founding Entangled, the first ed tech venture studio. Entangled managed 21 portfolio companies, including Yellowbrick, Course Hero, RaiseMe, ReUp Education and Pathstream. Entangled was acquired by Guild, the market-leader in the human potential space, in 2020. I then stayed on at Guild as President, Learning Marketplaces. 

We are witnessing the next great technological solution – and is changing the nature of humans, work, and life. There’s an opportunity for this innovation to go incredibly right – or for it to leave many individuals and communities behind. We are founding Humanist to make sure that AI works for everyone. 

I earned a BA in public policy from the University of Chicago, where I picked up a passion for empowering people. I became an entrepreneur to do that work through the private sector, where change is faster, more iterative, and often more human-centered. I am also the founder and CEO of the Oakland Ballers, an independent baseball team competing in the Pioneer League, and based in Oakland, CA.

Co-Founder and CEO at Humanist, where I specialize in making Humanist a talent magnet for the best founders and all things go-to-market for our companies. 

In our first venture studio, Paul Freedman and I launched six different human potential companies that either steered to positive growth or successful exits. When Entangled was acquired by Guild in 2020, I served on the leadership team at Guild through a four year period of hyper growth and a Series F fundraise and $4.4 billion valuation. At Guild I helped Fortune 500 partners such as Walmart and Disney put learning and career mobility at the center of their talent strategy, enabling hundreds of thousands of frontline workers to achieve economic mobility. 

With roots in the liberal arts, I believe every person has an innate hunger for purposeful work. Thanks to generative AI, we have a powerful new toolset to help more people to find both economic stability and purpose, especially those who have historically been left behind. We founded Humanist to attract the best entrepreneurs to this vision -- and to stack the odds in their favor -- so we can build solutions that enable more people to thrive in the age of AI.

My passion for education emerged as a community organizer in the rural South and as an educator in rural Thailand: in both places, communities felt deeply that their level of education determined their level of empowerment and self actualization. 

I am a mom of three little kids and live in the beautiful Presidio of San Francisco where I spend my free time learning new sports out on the ocean.