About Me

Welcome! I’ve loved writing since I was six years old and discovered grant writing during college as a way to merge my passion for social justice with my love of language and communication.  I have been writing grants ever since by working and volunteering for many nonprofit organizations over the past sixteen years. 

A native of North Carolina, I headed north for school where I studied English and Art History at Williams College in Massachusetts and Oxford University in England.  Since then I’ve lived and worked in Washington, D.C., and Berkeley, California.  I have been based in the Triangle area of North Carolina since 2012. When I’m not writing grants I enjoy reading, yoga, and being outdoors.

As a freelance grant writer, I am dedicated to helping organizations raise the funds they need to make a difference in their communities. I am especially eager to support teams that are committed to anti-racism, that understand and address the systemic roots of inequalities, and that center the agency and dignity of their program beneficiaries. Given my privileges as a cis white woman, I am committed to my own ongoing learning and un-learning about racism, ableism, capitalism, colonialism, and other oppressive systems. 

Pronouns: she/her/hers

My first name is pronounced kuh-rin

I work from the unceded land of the Eno, Tutelo, Saponi, Occaneechi, and Shakori Native people. I acknowledge the ancestral and present land stewardship and place-based knowledge of the peoples of these territories.