Fractional product leadership and earned revenue strategy
I embed with nonprofit and social enterprise leadership teams to build the products, platforms, and earned revenue strategies that make mission-driven work financially self-sustaining.
An organization that owns an asset generating its own revenue no longer needs permission to survive.
Most nonprofits are one budget cycle away from a crisis. Government contracts dry up and philanthropic priorities shift. When that happens, staff get let go and the programs low-income families depend on stop.
This hits hardest for organizations led by and serving Black, Indigenous, and low-income communities. The people closest to the problem end up structurally dependent on the approval of people furthest from it.
Earned revenue changes that. I help organizations treat their programs, platforms, and services as products with a real strategy behind them, so leadership can spend more time on mission and less time managing the next funding gap.
Four ways I work with mission-driven teams. Most engagements combine two or more.
I help you identify monetization opportunities that fit your values, build a P&L for each option, and run fast experiments to test willingness to pay before you commit significant resources.
For organizations leaning heavily on grants and government contracts that want income they control.
I join your team as a senior product leader. I write requirements, own the roadmap, manage the engineering relationship, and coach your staff, without the cost of a full-time hire.
For teams with tech resources who need someone translating business needs into engineering work.
I turn a product idea into prototypes your team can react to, then define the features and roadmap that get you from concept to launch. I also help you estimate costs and write the grant narrative to fund the build.
For leaders with a product vision and no clear path to execution or funding.
I help organizations adopt AI responsibly, bringing technical fluency from SaaS alongside the accountability to community this sector requires. That includes ethics frameworks, governance, and hands-on implementation.
For organizations under pressure to use AI that want to get it right for the people they serve.
I join your team meetings, drive strategy, and build alongside your staff. I stay accountable to the mission and to the outcomes we agree on at the start.
Engagements run as monthly retainers or multi-phase statements of work, so the scope reflects how the work actually happens.
Products and revenue models built with organizations serving entrepreneurs, renters, and people experiencing homelessness.
Leading the product behind Centro CEO, an AI-powered business planning platform for low-income entrepreneurs, and driving Centro's transition from grant-dependent operations to a platform with sustainable earned revenue.
Built and launched SwiftAid, an AI-powered housing assistance platform designed to prevent evictions for millions of at-risk households.
Delivered a revenue model for this Dallas nonprofit, turning creative programming for people experiencing homelessness into prospective revenue for the organization and its creative clients.
Built and led XpertHelp, TaxAct's virtual expert assistance feature, which served 20,000 users.
Growing up in rural Virginia, technology opened doors I didn't know existed. I watched my mother manage emergencies with the scarcest resources, and I see the same pressure on the nonprofit CEOs I work with today. That's the reason I do this work.
I started in product at Intuit and TaxAct. Along the way I founded the Spark Mentorship and Scholarship Program for students in my hometown, and Project Lytework, a wellness initiative for BIPOC communities in Oakland. At the Community Economic Defense Project I served as Chief of Staff and built SwiftAid, right as generative AI was reshaping what nonprofits thought was possible.
I launched AniCo. Impact in 2026 on a simple conviction: the gap between how impact organizations are funded and how they could be funded is solvable, and solving it is product work.
MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business, with a certificate in Public Management and Social Innovation. BS in Computer Information Systems, Hampton University.
Earned revenue is income an organization generates by selling a product or service, instead of relying only on grants, government contracts, and donations. Examples include licensing a platform to partner organizations, sponsorships that fund access for community members, or fees for a program other organizations want to run. Designed well, it serves the same community the mission does and gives the organization income it controls.
A fractional head of product is a senior product leader who works with your organization part time. I set product strategy, write requirements, own the roadmap, manage the relationship with engineers, and coach your staff. It gives you senior product leadership before you can justify a full-time hire, and I help you recruit that hire when you're ready.
I work with nonprofits, social enterprises, CDFIs, and other community development organizations, especially those led by and serving Black, Indigenous, and low-income communities. Most clients are leadership teams that want to reduce their dependence on grants or build a technology product for the people they serve.
Engagements run as monthly retainers or multi-phase statements of work with deliverables and hours set for each phase. Every engagement starts with a free consultation to understand your goals, your constraints, and whether I'm the right fit.
Yes. I help organizations clarify their product vision, build a roadmap, estimate costs, and write the narrative for tech-for-good grants and funder proposals. I've supported grant applications that funded product builds at organizations I've worked with.
Book a free consultation. Bring the funding pressure, the product idea, or the program you think could stand on its own, and we'll figure out the next step together.