The stage taught me what a story can do.
I began volunteering with nonprofits around the world when I was seventeen. I helped build schools in Zambia, brought food, medicine, and clothing to remote communities in the Kalahari, and worked with schools and student camps in the Himalayas.
As a Nashville recording artist, I used music and stories to talk about hunger, poverty, clean water, trafficking, modern slavery, malaria, and the issues I had seen firsthand. At concerts, people gave. Then I had the chance to travel with nonprofit partners and see what that generosity made possible.
I learned that a story can move someone from caring to acting.






