For over fifteen years I’ve worked on non-profit administration in a variety of sectors, including the arts, education and animal welfare. I specialize in operations and strategic planning.

I currently serve on the boards of Ars Nova, Story Pirates Inc., One Tail at a Time Portland and Woodstock Farm Sanctuary. In addition to my role as a trustee of the Awesome Foundation Vegan chapter, I sit on the board of of their umbrella non-profit, the Institute of Higher Awesome Studies. I manage the Payne Brodeur Giving Fund, which supports a variety of non-profit causes, particularly grassroots organizations that have challenges accessing larger dollar donors.

I am a founding member of Women Funders in Animal Rights and sit on their Leadership Council.

As one of the first employees at Story Pirates, I created their producing department before serving as the Development Director for their flagship Story Pirates Changemakers programs. I left my staff role there in June of 2018 and joined the Board of Directors.

In addition to my non-profit strategic planning consultation work and board service, in the for profit space I invest at the intersection of food systems, environmentalism and labor rights through Ursa Minor Ventures.

I live in New York with my husband, Alex Payne. We share our home with an impossibly loud tortoiseshell cat, a bed hog-pit bull mix, another cat named after my favorite fictional British DCI, and our daughter.

I like big ideas and people who have a lot of them. My favorite animal is the moose.