Greenfield, AI-native, production. Each shipped with documentation, runbooks, and a continuity plan. Two also ship native iOS + Android apps in the App Store and Play Store.
Public benefit corporation · co-founder
AI-powered funder research, grant writing, and pitch coaching for the 85% of nonprofits priced out of professional fundraising tools.
nonprofits on Kindora
foundations indexed
raised in single pilot month
Funder platform · designed and built
Designed the entire competition and built the platform end-to-end: $800K dual-track innovation challenge in foster care, with a full grant application workflow, AI triage, peer review, staff scoring, and a 21-judge panel.
in awards
applications received
judges + 17 reviewers
finalists advancing
Hiring platform · client build
Production AI-native applicant tracking system: GPT-4 Vision resume parsing, candidate profile enrichment, Kanban pipeline, AI scoring, team voting, and personalized outreach campaigns. Replaced spreadsheet + Airtable chaos with one workflow.
candidates managed
applications processed
concurrent searches
Consumer · co-founder
AI-powered camping companion: 10,300+ public campgrounds with AI-analyzed reviews, 5-year weather history, and community safety scores. Free. Shipped on web, iOS, and Android — same product, three surfaces.
campgrounds indexed
platforms shipped (web + iOS + Android)
in App Store + Play Store
Nonprofit member platform · co-founder
Member platform for the sister nonprofit getting urban families outside. Auth, profiles, channels for community discussion, events with RSVP, trip detail pages. Shipped on web, iOS, and Android.
platforms shipped (web + iOS + Android)
in App Store + Play Store
Custom CRM · designed and built
Purpose-built CRM for an outdoor nonprofit: contact + family-unit management, trip coordination, dual fundraising pipelines (institutional + individual), AI email generator, Twilio SMS campaigns, and program + fundraising analytics dashboards.
analytics dashboards
communication suite
Public site · personal build
Public site for Rev. Sally Steele — ordained minister (M.Div., Gordon-Conwell), guest-preaching booking, and a sermon library framed by liberation + womanist theology. WCAG 2.1 AA, custom typography, full keyboard navigation.
WCAG 2.1 accessible
Lighthouse mobile
A selection of the funds, partnerships, and initiatives I led or co-led at Google.org and earlier. The pattern that runs through them is the same one that runs through the studio: greenfield programs, designed with the people closest to the problem, sized to actually work.
Economic Opportunity
$100M
Pioneered an outcomes-based loan fund supporting 20,000+ job seekers, projected to generate $1B+ in wage gains.
Economic Opportunity
$180M → $1.6B
U.S. Treasury partnership deployed across 131,000 small businesses — 56% minority-owned, 37% women-owned.
AI for Public Interest
$75M
Equipped 1M+ Americans with AI skills via partnerships with Goodwill, veterans’ groups, and rural organizations.
AI for Public Interest
$25M
Established cybersecurity clinics at 25 institutions — from rural colleges to HBCUs — to address the 450,000-job shortage.
Community Development
$1B
Repurposed $750M of Google land plus $250M investment fund to enable 20,000 new homes and pilot direct cash transfers.
Justice
0%
Launched The Last Mile’s first coding academy outside California — a $2M grant to juvenile facilities, achieving 0% recidivism.
Justice
100+
Co-built the nation’s first data platform tracking police behavior with Google engineering. Adopted by 100+ jurisdictions.
Justice
4,000+
Co-built the digital platform documenting 4,000+ racial-terror lynchings as EJI’s sole corporate launch partner.
Justice
$2M
Kehinde Wiley × de Young × Live Free USA — free museum access, community grief workshops, and a speaker series on systemic violence against Black communities.
Education
$10M
Selena Gomez × Rare Impact Fund partnership reaching 1M high schoolers and 10,000 teachers.
Education
$20M
Highlights × Sesame Workshop × Boys & Girls Clubs internet-safety education reaching 1M+ young readers; 250,000 free copies to underserved communities.
Equity
$1M
California’s first tech-inspired nonprofit accelerator with the Latino Community Foundation. Raised $2.5M in follow-on for Latino-led nonprofits.
Education
$11M
Doubled Black and Latino enrollment in AP STEM courses; expanded The Hidden Genius Project.
Community Development
$10M
Established digital navigator programs in 18 rural and tribal communities with the National Digital Inclusion Alliance.
Community Development
13,000 sq ft
Google’s first-ever community hub at the Embarcadero — free workspace, meeting rooms, and convening for 3,000+ Bay Area nonprofits.
Engagements start with a 30-minute call. We’ll talk about the problem, whether the studio is the right fit, and what the first scoped sprint would look like.