Christine O'Driscoll

My career path has been an interesting ride where all the things I've done seemed to not really match well until I landed on what I'm finally doing. I have an extensive background in marketing and sales, fundraising, and health coaching, with a strong interest in how the foods we eat can act as medicine or poison depending on our choices. Laced through all of that is a personal experience with my daughter who has an intellectual disability, and I watched her struggle to find and maintain employment. She's actually been an inspiration for a lot of what I've done. All of those experiences culminated in my position at New Growth Project, where I helped found this nonprofit to employ adults with disabilities on a chemical-free vegetable farm, tying in my love for food. I'm in charge of all of the marketing and storytelling, which is my passion. On a daily basis, I'm responsible for all of the fundraising and community collaborations, finding relationships with other local organizations and donors that would support our work and also benefit from our work. We have great collaborations with other nonprofits like food pantries. My job is to make sure that the team as a whole knows where we're going as an organization and what our mission is, that the community understands what we offer and the problem that we're solving, and to ensure that the organization is financially sound and that the future continues to look bright.