Prior to this, Lindsey was a Senior Consultant at Graham-Pelton Consulting, where she managed two campaigns with goals totaling $52 million, served as an interim Chief Development Officer, and conducted multiple campaign feasibility studies.

Earlier in her career, Lindsey was a Major Gifts Officer at New Orleans City Park, where she solicited philanthropic investments from individual and corporate donors. In this role, she developed a capital campaign strategy, including benchmarking tactics, prospect pipeline, timeline, cases for support, and a gift catalog demonstrating funding needs. Prior to this, Lindsey was an Associate Director at Orr Group, another consulting firm serving the nonprofit sector. Here she worked with clients spearheading comprehensive development for startup nonprofit organizations, collaborating with teammates and executive leadership to design long-term fundraising plans, managing relationships with prospective funders by qualifying prospects, strategizing cultivation moves, leading outreach, submitting funding proposals, co-writing and submitting grant submissions, and stewarding successful foundation relationships.

Lindsey currently serves on the AFP – Greater New Orleans Chapter Board of Directors. She received her B.S. in Business at Florida State University, where she sparked her passion for fundraising while serving as Vice President of Philanthropy on her sorority’s executive board for two consecutive years, raising nearly $300,000 for domestic violence awareness.