Mary-Elizabeth Harmon
Budget
Transparent and open finances.
-$126.75 USD
Paid
Reimbursement #210679
↑ Total contributed
--.-- USD
↓ Total received with expenses
$126.75 USD
About
Dr. Mary-Elizabeth Harmon—“The Caregivers’ Caregiver”—is a scientist turned storyteller, caregiver and founder of Chard & Stripes and Vertical Village Alliance, a non-profit project to help every generation thrive by fostering care communities, for and by neighbors of all ages, in apartment buildings in the U.S.
A graduate of MIT and The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Mary-Elizabeth left the laboratory as a virus researcher and worked as a science advisor at Greenpeace. From there, she joined the federal ranks in the Department of Health and Human Services, first at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and later in the Office of Inspector General (OIG).
In OIG, Mary-Elizabeth evaluated programs and wrote data-driven stories (i.e., reports) for their improvement for Congress, including a compelling account of Medicare home health fraud that prompted regulatory changes and several indictments.
Through Vertical Village Alliance, Mary-Elizabeth is mixing her love for storytelling with wisdom she gained as an analyst, caregiver and community builder to gather partners to design and apply a model to connect neighbors to each other and in-home medical care.
A Michigander who grew up in Kenya, Mary-Elizabeth has been making informal villages since returning to the U.S. for college. She was dubbed The Caregivers’ Caregiver by her mother for providing emotional, administrative and home remedy support to aides who helped her take care of her father who had dementia.
A graduate of MIT and The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Mary-Elizabeth left the laboratory as a virus researcher and worked as a science advisor at Greenpeace. From there, she joined the federal ranks in the Department of Health and Human Services, first at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and later in the Office of Inspector General (OIG).
In OIG, Mary-Elizabeth evaluated programs and wrote data-driven stories (i.e., reports) for their improvement for Congress, including a compelling account of Medicare home health fraud that prompted regulatory changes and several indictments.
Through Vertical Village Alliance, Mary-Elizabeth is mixing her love for storytelling with wisdom she gained as an analyst, caregiver and community builder to gather partners to design and apply a model to connect neighbors to each other and in-home medical care.
A Michigander who grew up in Kenya, Mary-Elizabeth has been making informal villages since returning to the U.S. for college. She was dubbed The Caregivers’ Caregiver by her mother for providing emotional, administrative and home remedy support to aides who helped her take care of her father who had dementia.