Finding the Right People
for the Right Missions

I Didn't Plan to Be a Recruiter. I Planned to Change the World.

I studied Theater at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. I worked in Sales at a legacy theater arts publication. I spent time at the world-famous William Morris Agency trying to figure out if being an Agent was where I fit. What I kept coming back to through all of it was a feeling — that I wanted my work to matter beyond a transaction. That the world had more urgent needs than I was helping with, and that I wanted to contribute to helping.

Taking a Junior Recruiter role at Professionals for Non-Profits turned out to be the decision that changed everything. It was somewhat by chance — but I discovered I could take what I genuinely loved about Sales — understanding what someone needs, finding the right match, making a connection that creates real value — and put it in service of something meaningful. Fifteen years later, that's still what gets me up in the morning.

Over that time I've built deep relationships across the sector — with Executive Directors, CFOs, COOs, Directors of Development, Directors of Programs, Human Resource Directors, and Board Members — as both candidates and clients. Some of those client relationships have spanned years and dozens of senior placements. The most meaningful has been an eight-year partnership with Equality Now, which led to me being referred to conduct an Executive Director search for Musawah, a Muslim women's rights organization based in Malaysia. That search — working across culture, geography, and language to find the right leader — is the kind of work I was built for.

What I've learned is that recruiting for nonprofits is a fundamentally different discipline. The people you're looking for aren't primarily motivated by compensation — they're motivated by mission. And the organizations hiring them are often working within real budget constraints. That means the Recruiter's job isn't just to find qualified candidates. It's to understand what drives each person, to speak directly to the spark that brought them to this sector, and to honestly and compellingly connect them to the specific mission and opportunity in front of them. That's a skill. One I've spent 15 years developing.