Carol has worked in the nonprofit field her entire professional life including as an award-winning nonprofit CEO and President of Sharity Global. She is an experienced strategic planning facilitator and a published author of five evidence-based studies on program effectiveness and community engagement. As a fundraiser, Carol has personally raised over $250M. She has particular expertise in gender-based violence programming and advocacy. Her work spans leading local efforts to change public policy – she played a lead role in the passage of six recent survivor-centric pieces of legislation, including Gail’s Law and Donna’s Law – to serving on the White House policy councils addressing gender-based violence and economic empowerment.

She began her career as a trauma therapist for child abuse survivors. For 13 years, Carol directed the PACE Center, a gender-responsive program for at-risk teenage girls. At PACE, she doubled agency revenue in four years, and her juvenile justice program ranked first in Florida out of over 800 agencies. Carol then served for a decade as CEO of a 120-bed high-lethality domestic violence shelter. Under her leadership, the shelter ran seven capital campaigns raising over $14 million, constructed one of the first onsite kennels at a US domestic violence shelter, and created the first domestic abuse screening app, R3. That app was downloaded around the world and highlighted in the New England Journal of Medicine.

In 2016, Carol founded Sharity Global to deliver strategic planning, fundraising, facilitation, monitoring and evaluation, advocacy, policy, operational and other consulting services. Sharity has since worked with over 100 diverse clients in 36 countries, including government, nonprofit, multilateral, and foundation entities.