Claire McDonnell

Claire has dedicated her career to enabling more people to live independent and fulfilling lives. Before co-founding True Link, Claire worked at a range of mission-driven organizations. At The Bridgespan Group (Bain & Co’s social sector affiliate) she advised nonprofits on how to increase their social impact; at Teach for America, she helped recruit college students to become teachers; at the venture capital firm Innovation Endeavors, she founded a wellness app as a Runway Entrepreneur.

Claire has also volunteered with a range of nonprofit organizations, including as a college instructor for people incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison with the Prison University Project (Now Mt. Tamalpais College), as a Leadership Council member at Shepherd’s Center Of America, an interfaith organization which focuses on supporting elders to age well in community, and as Board Member for Leaders in Tech. As a young person Claire co-founded arts volunteer organizations affiliated with her high school and university, each of which are still actively bringing student-led arts engagement programs to communities in Florida and New York today. Claire was a Fulbright Scholar in Argentina and holds a BA (Phi Beta Kappa) from Columbia University.

Claire speaks and presents on a wide range of topics from using technology tools to operate organizations to innovation that serves older adults to preventing elder exploitation. She has been featured by Y Combinator in Female Founder Stories: Claire McDonnell, Founder of True Link Financial and Claire McDonnell and Jennifer Kim on Building an Inclusive Company Culture, Wharton Fintech in Empowering the Vulnerable with Financial Tools — Claire McDonnell, Co-Founder of True Link (on SoundCloud here or Apple Podcasts here), at the Stanford Center on Longevity Design Challenge in Aging 2.0 - Stanford - Claire McDonnell, wrote for Aging in Place on How to Work with Siblings to Care for an Aging Parent, and is a member of the Care 100 List and The Most Influential Women in Finance on Twitter (even though she doesn’t regularly use Twitter).