Intake Specialist and Voting Rights Advocate
As an intake specialist and voting rights advocate with DRI, Piper looks forward to using her friendly and inquisitive nature to help Iowans with disabilities get their needs met. Piper joins DRI’s team with a varied professional background. She spent about 8 years working as a journalist, including time as a reporter, copy editor and newspaper designer, after graduating with a journalism degree from the University of Montana in 2011. She then spent a year as a service member with AmeriCorps FoodCorps, teaching Des Moines Public School students about gardening, cooking and nutrition. She managed a medically integrated pool while obtaining a degree in communicative sciences and disorders before arriving at DRI in 2023.
Piper moved to Des Moines in 2015 and has fallen in love with Iowa after growing up in Montana, Wyoming and Alaska. She lives on the South Side with her husband and daughter, along with one dog and two cats. She loves to read, write, and swim, and has a goal of visiting every one of Iowa’s 54 state parks.
