About Isabelle
Isabelle (she/her) started her non profit career 30 years ago as a public school teacher. She earned her Master’s in Management and her Juris Doctor to strengthen her ability to advocate for the communities and families she collaborates with. She spent 16 years co-designing programs with marginalized communities before serving as the inaugural Public Interest Career Services Director at U.C. Law San Francisco, the Youth Development Director at Safe Passages in Oakland, the first Executive Director at African Library Project and the Executive Director at California School Age Consortium. Isabelle now consults with women-led non-profit organizations and coaches leaders through her LLC, Gutsy Mama.
As a first generation college graduate and U.S. citizen with working-class family origins in rural France and in Senegal, Isabelle engages all of her work from a social and racial justice lens. She coaches in the areas that she has deep personal and professional experience in: the non-profit sector, entrepreneurship, homeschooling and the integration of a holistic approach to physical and mental health.
