Evie Kling

dreaming + doing

United States

About

Supporting: garden3d, a worker-owned creative collective Reading: Fear City (Kim Phillips-Fein), Middlemarch (George Eliot) Listening: RAYE, NTS's In Focus series, Julian Lage, Dorothy Ashby Anticipating: A second visit to Holy Wisdom Monastery, summer swims in Lake Michigan, the next time we gather

Experience

  • Head of Strategy + Ops at garden3d
    May 2026 - Present · 3 mos

  • Synapticure Inc. (3 yrs 5 mos)
    • Director, Growth + Implementation
      Jul 2023 - Sep 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      Synapticure democratizes specialized care for neurodegenerative diseases. I was employee #15 and played a part in shaping all company functions aside from clinical care.

    • Chief of Staff
      May 2022 - Jul 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Strategy + Operations at Optum
    2021 - 2021 · Less than a year

    Optum at Home reimagines care delivery for dual-eligible members, Optum's most complex, vulnerable population.

  • Portfolio Management at Dovetail Impact Foundation
    Mar 2018 - Jun 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Dovetail invests in nonprofits that promote human flourishing. I funded high-impact organizations in sub-Saharan Africa and south/east Asia.

  • Member at Big Bang Philanthropy
    Mar 2018 - Jun 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Big Bang Philanthropy is a group of funders working to find and finance high-impact, scalable organizations tackling global poverty.