Carly’s biggest, and most important role is a mother. She loves to connect with families during these hard times, to provide them with support, compassion, and an ear to listen. Carly’s journey with her faith has been her strongest coping mechanism during her own families hardships. She strives to serve others as well with God & Gunner walking beside her.

Kyle is very eager about connecting with bereaved fathers, as men and women tend to grieve differently. He like’s to work though issues he can fix/solve, so you might find him in the garage making a family a custom birdhouse! He brings so much passion to this cause, rooted from his own experience in losing Gunner.

My name is Amanda. I graduated 2020 with my MBA in Finance from the University of Wisconsin Parkside. I have over 5 years of various experience and projects in the finance field. I thoroughly enjoy working with numbers, digging into data analytics, and contributing to a team.

Lauren comes from a large family, and hopes to one day start one of her own. As Carly’s childhood friend, the losses her family has suffered have also affected her deeply. She supports Guardian Gunner’s mission supporting families going through the loss of their small loved ones, by driving the behind the scenes operations and supporting the board’s fundraising activities.

Erika is a Certified Grief Support Specialist and Social Worker. She has a desire to accompany the grieving by offering non-judgemental and compassionate listening, along with grief education.

Accompanying Carly and her family on their journey of healing from the tragic loss of Gunner has been a life-changing yet heartbreaking privilege. She has been inspired as she watched God work mightily in their family, shining light into and through the darkness.

Erika has been married to Al for 33 years, is a mother of 8 adults/young adults, and joyful grandmother of 2.

By God’s grace; Erika finds strength, hope and wisdom in her relationship with Jesus Christ. She wants you to know that she respects each individual’s journey of faith as sacred and personal.