Kendall Galli
Kendall has been a classroom teacher for 32 years, the last 26 spent in Marin County. Classrooms and kids at White Hill Middle School, Marin's Community School and Archie Williams High School have brought her joy and enthusiasm and inspiration for decades. An active community member of Ross Valley and Marin County and a risk taking DIY'er.
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Ellin Purdom
A Bay Area native, Ellin grew up in Piedmont and attended UC Berkeley, receiving her degree in Social Welfare. It is at Cal that Ellin met her husband, Ned. After they married, they moved to San Anselmo and raised their two sons in Ned’s childhood home. Ellin retired in 2015 from a 30+ year career as the Director of Client Services at Ashfield Capital Partners.
Hilary Sessions is a San Francisco Bay Area-based marketing professional and the Principal of Quarry Hill Consulting with over a decade of experience in interior design, PR, marketing and business management. She was a founding team member of Chairish.com, an online marketplace. Prior to entering the world of design, Hilary worked in Corporate Events.
Jim Eichenberger
Treasurer
Jim retired in 2015 after a 36-year career in finance and corporate management. He practiced as a CPA with a regional public accounting firm for four years and then accepted a controllership position with one of his audit clients. Jim spent the next 32 years in various accounting, treasury, and management positions with several large agricultural cooperatives.
Nel Ellwein
Originally from New York City, Nel is a graduate of Brown University and received her MBA at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. She worked as a management consultant with Bain & Company with a focus on serving clients in the areas of private equity and consumer products until changing her focus to raise her two daughters.
Vicki began her career in non-profit in early 2015 when she joined St. Vincent de Paul Society as Director of Finance & Operations. SVDP is a non-profit organization based in San Rafael with programs working to end hunger, poverty and homelessness in Marin. Prior to SVDP, Vicki spent 20+ years in Executive Management roles in healthcare media.
Ann Dale
Excited to be part of Make It Home’s growth, Ann brings over 30 years of executive leadership across early-stage, growth-phase, and mature consumer brands. Her expertise in strategic transformation has built meaningful businesses at leading brands including Gap, Inc. and The Walt Disney Company—scaling operations and delivering strategic growth.
Carolyn Rebuffel Flannery
President
Carolyn founded Make It Home in 2020 during the pandemic after being an interior designer in the Bay Area for about 25 years. Interior Design was her way of helping others to make a house into a home and help others share in some of the wonderful things about home. As an interior designer, she was
seeing a LOT of waste.
Susan Brennan
Vice President
Susan has spent the better part of the last three and a half decades working at Levi Strauss & Co. across a variety of disciplines, including, merchandising, marketing, operations, business development, and strategy. Prior to her retirement, Susan was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Levi Strauss's mass-market business.
As the award-winning founder of Nu Interiors, a design practice specializing in modern, unexpected interiors that invite a rich mix of materials, ideas and global inspiration. Nureed is committed to expanding design equity beyond the luxury market. Nureed is a leader and passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion in the design industry. Nureed currently serves as the President of the National Kitchen and Bath Association, Northern California Chapter.