Carly graduated from the School of Hotel Administration in December of 2016. She started her hospitality career in the wedding cake business, working for many different bakeries in the Massapequa, New York area where she grew up. Upon beginning her education at Cornell, she focused on food and beverage operations but fell in love with the senior living industry after a dining internship with Brookdale Senior Living in the summer of 2015. She minored in Gerontology through the College of Human Ecology and was actively involved in CIHF as both the social media manager and an undergraduate researcher. She was also the co-president of the Cornell University Healthy Futures Student Organization, which aims to spark conversation among students studying hospitality, healthcare, and design. She loves to hike, still enjoys baking, and hopes to one day improve the lives of older adults by developing a financially viable middle income senior living model. Carly continued her passion for senior living and hospitality and is now is the incoming operations associate at Erickson Living.