Founder

I grew up in rural Mississippi, raised by a single mother and two grandmothers who poured everything they had into the people around them. In that house, empathy wasn’t a concept — it was how the lights stayed on for a neighbor, how a meal showed up at someone’s door without being asked for. It was how love moved quietly through a community that didn’t always have much, but always found a way to give.
Those three women shaped the way I see the world. They taught me that the measure of a person isn’t what they accumulate — it’s who they show up for.
That’s why I founded Forward Relief.
Every day, people in underserved communities are forced to choose between filling a prescription and keeping their lights on. Every night, men and women experiencing homelessness go to sleep hungry. These aren’t distant problems — they’re the reality for our neighbors, and they demand more than awareness. They demand action.
Forward Relief exists because of what those women taught me: that care is not optional, and that community means no one is left behind. Whether we’re eliminating the cost of a life-changing medication or putting a warm meal in someone’s hands, we’re doing what was modeled for me long before I had the words for it.
This is personal. And that’s exactly why it works.