About us
Across industries, parents are quietly struggling to juggle layoffs, career pivots, and caregiving, but without the community or resources they desperately need.
We aim to hold a space for parents to gather, learn, and rise together. We connect parents with recruiters, mental health experts, entrepreneurs, and each other—offering both practical tools and emotional solidarity.
Because while institutions may falter, the power of community and relentless ingenuity does not. As parents, we can’t fall apart when our jobs end. We have to keep going.
So we gather. We organize. We reimagine.
If you’re parenting through job loss and wondering how to pick up the pieces: we see you. Let’s find our way through, together.
A word from our founder
“If you’re facing your own pivot, know this: you don’t have to do it alone.”
My name is Kathleen. I’m a new mom, a public health professional, and a community organizer who never dreamed I’d be founding something like this.
For nearly twenty years, I dedicated my career to maternal and child health, serving at USAID, the State Department, and DC-based nonprofits. My work took me across continents and deep into communities where global health programs saved lives every day.
Then, in January 2025, just eleven weeks after giving birth to my first child, I was blindsided. DOGE’s terminations abruptly ended my federal contract. USAID — the agency I had proudly served — was dismantled, and with it much of the U.S. foreign aid.
Suddenly, I was a new mom with no paycheck, no benefits, no network, and no industry to return to. I needed a community that understood the collision of caregiving, identity, and job loss at a time when I was barely getting three hours of sleep at a stretch.
When I couldn’t find that space, I built it.
And so, Pivoting Parents was born! First as a personal survival strategy, and now as a vibrant grassroots network of nearly a thousand caregivers who are navigating layoffs, supporting each other, and rebuilding careers with resilience and creativity.
If you’re facing your own pivot, know this: you don’t have to do it alone.
Come join us! Let’s build the future of work and care, together.