I've spent more than fifteen years building community institutions from the inside. The Tiyya Foundation grew from my mother's volunteer work with refugee families into an organization serving refugee, immigrant, and low-income families across Orange County and Los Angeles. Flavors From Afar began as a catering company in 2018 and is today an established restaurant in East Hollywood.

I advise as a practitioner. The questions nonprofit leaders bring me are ones I've worked through myself: how to grow without losing sight of the mission, how to balance grant funding with earned revenue, how to lead through a transition, and how to build a team that can carry the work without its founder in the room every day.