Development Team

With over a decade of experience in nonprofit development, Dawn brings expertise in major gifts, capital campaigns, and corporate engagement, including partnerships with Fortune 500 companies.

Before E3, Dawn co-led KIPP Texas’ Rise Together Capital Campaign, an $85 million statewide initiative. The campaign built a new PK–12 Austin campus, expanded early childhood education with free half-day pre-K for three- and four-year-olds, funded professional development for teachers, and offered programs to help juniors and seniors at KIPP Texas – Austin prepare for postsecondary success. Most recently, as interim vice president of development at Waterloo Greenway Conservancy, she managed operations and a multiphase campaign that restored Waller Creek and created 35 acres of inclusive parkland downtown.

Her Austin upbringing drives Dawn to connect communities with causes that create a more equitable future. She holds a bachelor’s in political science and global analysis from The University of Texas at San Antonio and a master’s in homeland security and emergency management from Arizona State University.