Born and raised in Manitowoc, Wisconsin I spent my formative years training as a pre-professional ballet dancer. After graduating from Cornell University, I had a successful 15+ year career in the fashion industry, leading Production and Product Development teams for global companies. For years I travelled the world, working in factories, negotiating product costs, and developing products for brands like Levi's, Gap, Old Navy, and Rachel Roy. My previous roles were highly collaborative and spaned cultures and time zones.
Changes in life circumstances and a highly disruptive global pandemic led me back to my midwestern roots. After nearly two decades living in San Francisco and NYC, and an 18-month reflective sojourn in the woods of northern Wisconsin, my family and I made our way to Chicago.
A chance encounter led me and my family to Chris Gaggero who helped us purchase our home in the Ravenswood neighborhood of Chicago. Working with Chris was revelatory. Chris added so much value to our personal home buying process while avoiding typical sales tactics that I've encountered so often with other realtors. Chris' attention to detail, willingness to listen, and ability to negotiate on the behalf of others are also the same skills I honed first as a dancer and then throughout my apparel career. When Chris and his business partner George Tully were looking for an additional agent to join their team I jumped on the opportunity, joining Gaggero & Tully. I realized I could turn my passion and love for real estate into a career, leveraging and building upon the perspective gained during my time in the fashion industry and travels throughout the world.
The skill set that led to my successful fifteen year career in fashion and retail and the discipline developed as a dancer translate seamlessly to serve my real estate clients. Obsessive attention-to-detail, ability to listen, navigating competing deliverables, and executing on client needs are my top priorities. To me, the behind the scenes operational requirements of each real estate transaction are as important as the actual sale or purchase of your home. Throughout the process of buying or selling your home, I will partner with you to ensure you are included, well informed and, most importantly, that you're confident that everything is being taken care of.
I'm thrilled to be part of a team that includes two other incredible humans who happen to be realtors. The three of us operate with a service-first mentality and always with the greatest integrity. When you work with one of us you work with all of us at Gaggero & Tully.
