The Strategic Advantage of Lived Experience: Meet our C-Suite Team

Foundation for Life is led by an all-lived-experience C-suite, a structure designed to eliminate programmatic blind spots and ensure authentic, high-fidelity investment. We don't just understand the data; we've survived the crisis we are dedicated to preventing.
Kerry Martin
CEO & FOUNDER
Strategic Survivor
Erin Macauley
COO
Operational Catalyst

The Policy and Clinical Advisory Pillars: Meet our Strategic Cabinet

David Woods Bartley
Lived Experience Amplifier
Ann Corcoran
SMI Policy Driver
Dr. Todd Brown
Simulation Strategist
Kellie Hans Green
Child Welfare Catalyst
Elle Constantine
Upstream Primacy Leader
Dr. Suzanne Simpson
Connection Scientist

The SVC Mandate: De-Risking Your Investment

A key barrier to high-impact social change is the lack of authentic program due diligence. Our proprietary Survivor Vetting Council (SVC) acts as our institutional quality control.

​The SVC is a formally integrated body of survivors who apply real-world insight to every grant application, ensuring that FFL exclusively funds programs that genuinely resonate and demonstrate high-leverage effectiveness.

The SVC has hard veto power over all investment decisions. This unique proprietary power fundamentally de-risks capital deployment and maximizes the likelihood of achieving our verifiable 1:5 ROI in documented societal cost avoidance.​