Leigh comes to the Board of SVP with years of experience volunteering for various non-profits and international NGO’s. Born and raised in New York City, Leigh started her career in Television and Documentary film making, working as a producer for Good Morning America and several historical documentaries including the Emmy award winning film on Edward R. Murrow. In her thirties, she made a career shift into healthcare, receiving her MPH at Columbia University in Public Health and following it up with her clinical degree as a Family Nurse Practitioner. She worked in the Boston area, predominantly in Community Health Centers, while raising her three kids with her husband David. Leigh frequently goes on international medical missions, traveling to places such as Honduras, Haiti, Burma and Uganda.
Leigh moved to Tucson 6 years ago and has volunteered at Clinical Amistad as well as the shelters in Nogales Mexico. She has been a partner at SVP for 4 years and has been a part of many different SVP projects. Currently she is focusing on coaching the non-profit executives in the 2 Gen collaboration, which she loves. When she isn’t volunteering, she spends her time playing pickleball, hiking in the Catalinas, traveling and doing ceramics.
Leigh is excited to be a board member at SVP because she has observed firsthand the shortages of staffing and limited resources in the non-profit world and would like to support SVP’s crucial mission of helping the Tucson non-profit community in a meaningful way.