Meet The Team
Jonathan Ryan Gardner
Founder/ Executive Director

About Jonathan
Education
Awards/Affiliations/Recognitions
- 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 Honoree
Lizzy Randolph
Associate Director of Career Readiness

About Lizzy
Lizzy Randolph is the Associate Director of Career Readiness at GardHouse. Lizzy is passionate about working with youth and is dedicated to increasing educational equity and economic mobility. Lizzy served as a City Year AmeriCorps volunteer, tutor, and mentor with middle school students in Baton Rouge, LA. She began her career as a Site Coordinator with Communities In Schools in Baton Rouge before relocating to Charlotte, NC in 2017. She has school social work experience with Union County Public Schools and program coordination and case management experience with the Charlotte Housing Authority. Lizzy most recently served as a program manager with the Wake Forest University Pre-College Programs Department where she designed and implemented programming allowing middle and high school students the opportunity to explore careers of interest and experience college life.
Education
University of Tennessee, B.S. in Social Work
Washington University in Saint Louis, M.S in Social Work
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