Building systems that create access.
For more than fifteen years, I've built systems that help organizations create access — to opportunity, better care, trusted information, and lasting impact. I led a research enterprise from $22M to more than $300M in annual funding and oversaw financial reporting for a $1B presidential campaign. Today, I'm Managing Partner of BridgeTrust Partners, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of HRTLY Health, and founder of RAW™ and MammaVoyage.
Journey
Illinois
It started with numbers. At Palatine High School I was named Business Student of the Year — drawn early to accounting, finance, and every kind of math. I carried that instinct to the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where I earned dual degrees in accountancy and finance and learned what would become the throughline of my career: behind every organization is a system, and behind every system, a question — who does it actually serve?
Degree in hand, life moved me south — and then it kept moving.
Miami
In Miami I worked as a payroll tax accountant at the University of Miami, and married my husband, Michael Leach. When he joined the Chicago Bears, we packed up and moved north — the first of several moves his career would set in motion, and the first of several times I'd rebuild my own work in a new city.
A new city meant a new place to build.
Chicago
At Northwestern University I became a Financial Analyst II at the Bluhm Legal Clinic — finance, budgeting, and grants and contracts for work that widened access to justice. I was learning that good financial operations aren't back-office; they're what lets mission-driven work actually function.
When his work moved to the NFL, we moved again — this time to New York.
New York
New York was where I learned to operate with scale. Over more than a decade at NYU Langone Health, I helped build the operational infrastructure behind a research enterprise that grew from $22M to more than $300M in annual sponsored funding, supporting investigators across thirteen departments and some of the nation's leading biomedical research programs.
I also had the opportunity to lead financial reporting for a $1B presidential campaign. In both healthcare and public service, I saw the same truth: systems create access, and accountability determines whether that access reaches the people it was designed to serve.
Systems create access.
Washington, D.C.
When Michael's work moved to the White House, we moved to Washington, D.C., and I continued leading my work at NYU Langone Health from a distance. For a while, I carried all of it — the work, the moves, and a growing family — and I told myself that was simply what capacity looked like.
Perspective arrived gently. Burnout arrived next — and it wasn't gentle.
Motherhood
Twins changed the math. You can't optimize your way through two newborns and a research enterprise, and pretending otherwise is its own kind of failure. Motherhood reordered what I was willing to call success.
Then the twins arrived, and the capacity I'd been so proud of quietly ran out of room.
Burnout
Success and wholeness, I learned, are not the same thing — and from the outside, survival looks remarkably like success. The path back became the most important system I've ever built: first for myself, then for other high-capacity women. That work became RAW.
Restoration taught me that access has to include access to yourself. From there, the work turned outward again.
Reconnection
For most of my life, Africa was something I knew about but hadn't truly known. Cape Town in 2018, then Ghana in 2019, 2025, and again in 2026 — what began as travel became something closer to recognition: a reconnection with heritage, identity, community, and a sense of what's possible.
Eventually, that reconnection became work. Through BridgeTrust Partners, the Africa Real Estate Festival (AREF), and the Global Conference for Human Resources in Africa (GCHRA), I help build partnerships across Africa and the diaspora — connecting leaders, institutions, entrepreneurs, and opportunities across borders.
It's the chapter where everything I'd learned about building access finally pointed somewhere personal. And it's the one still being written.
What I'm Building Today
Nothing is wasted. Everything I've built has emerged from a chapter that came before it.
RAW™
A restoration practice for high-capacity women rebuilding after survival mode — the system I needed before I built it for anyone else.
Visit RAW →BridgeTrust Partners
Building partnerships, securing resources, and creating pathways to growth for organizations, entrepreneurs, and communities.
Visit BridgeTrust →HRTLY Health
An AI-enabled platform designed to identify risk early, intervene sooner, and keep people healthier longer.
Visit HRTLY Health →MammaVoyage
Verified, childcare-equipped hotels, so families can actually go.
Visit MammaVoyage →Community Leadership
Investing time, leadership, and resources in the schools, organizations, and initiatives that shape the communities where families live and grow.
What's Next
The throughline doesn't end here.
The bridges I'm building across Africa and the diaspora are only beginning. So is the next season of restoration, preventative healthcare, trusted family travel, and community leadership closer to home.
What comes next isn't simply building more. It's creating work that lasts — work my daughters can stand on, and work that widens access where it's needed most.
Connect
Every opportunity begins with a conversation. If something here resonated, I'd love to connect.