I’m a runner from the Midwest living in New York City! Running is a natural extension of my lifelong love for the outdoors. After college, I realized I needed to get out of the city and literally touch grass every once in a while, and running through as many trails and parks as I could find in the Hudson Valley ended up being the perfect way to scratch the itch. Eventually I realized there were lots of “trails” still to be explored in my own backyard, so I started hitting the roads in New York and never looked back. I could not be more pumped about the opportunity to run the New York City marathon with the Chris Klug Foundation (again!). In 2017, my brother Ian had a liver transplant to treat autoimmune hepatitis. As Ian was recovering from surgery, hearing about what Chris Klug was able to accomplish after surgery really gave us hope that Ian would be able to get back to the active life he’d led before surgery (and he has!). When we learned about CKF and their NYC marathon team, we signed up as soon as we could, and ran the race together with CKF for the first time in 2024. In 2026, we’re hoping to do it even bigger and better by roping in more friends and cooking up newer, better schemes to raise funds and awareness for CKF’s mission to get more people registered as organ, eye, and tissue donors!