I was born in Daulphin County, Pennsylvania, grew up in Lancaster, PA, and graduated from Manheim Township High School in 1988. In 2009, I received my Bachelor's degree in Extension Studies from Harvard University .
Over the years, I have held jobs with an administrative and finance focus, while enjoying training horses and giving riding lessons in my spare time. From my earliest years, I've been a small business owner, starting a small horse training business in 1989.
After my husband's work move us across country to the greater Seattle area in the early 2000's, I expanded my small business endeavors to better align with my skills by offering both administrative and bookkeeping services to local nonprofits and small businesses.
Then in 2006, a scholarship to finish my Bachelors degree moved us to the greater Boston area. This move opened up the opportunity to work as an administrative assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), overseeing the administrative and fiscal needs of 5 different professors, their research labs, and over 5 million dollars in grant funding. While at MIT, I also served as a co-convener of the MIT's Working Group on Support Staff Issues (WGSSI), researching and aiding in suggestions for solutions to employee issues related to the over 1,100 support staff members campus wide.
The experience I gained while working at MIT aided in my, and my husband's, efforts to register a small 501(c)3 nonprofit organization in 2010. So, in 2014, I left MIT to pour myself into the non-profit as their board secretary/ treasurer and administrative officer; setting up their bookkeeping, grant making process, and managing their IRS 990 reporting, as well as various administrative needs up until 2018. From its humble beginning of a little over $1000 in the first year, it had grown to over half a million dollars. In addition, in 2015, I was asked to assist with an accounting system migration of a Guatemalan NGO, where I set up a more enterprise style nonprofit accounting system, helping them with the complexity of international grants, external reporting, and nonprofit administration for a multi-faceted nonprofit enterprise running over 2 million dollars of transactions through their books.
My life's experiences have fed my passion to provide bookkeeping to professional service provider businesses and nonprofits, which are often hard pressed to find bookkeeping solutions that make sense to the average person, while meeting the specific need of these sectors. In addition, my move to Knoxville, Tennessee provides me the ability to open my bookkeeping business to local clients who have a desire to make a positive impact on their communities and the world. My mission is to honor God by providing bookkeeping services that liberate nonprofits and small businesses to focus on their mission, vision and goals.
Life at a glance
Transplants to Tennessee
A chance to visit with one of my Guatemalan coworkers (on the far right) and her family when they were all in the states
Time to visit with friends while visiting a nonprofit in Washington State
Tamalada in Tennessee with some Spanish speaking friends.
Good times with a coworker while I was working in Guatemala with an NGO
