Meet the Team

Scribe was founded in 2011 by Autumn Keck, a fundraising expert with over 25 years of experience in the areas of grant writing, major gift solicitation, event management, and communications. Autumn, a graduate of North Carolina State University, began her fundraising career at Neighborhood House, a nonprofit in Wilmington, Delaware. She went on to work at the American University Washington College of Law, The JC Raulston Arboretum at NC State University, and Girl Scouts of North Carolina Coastal Pines.

Ryan Rattliff, MSW, is a Grant Writer with Scibe, LLC. She is a graduate of the University of Missouri's Social Work program with a special interest in Policy, Planning, and Administration. She has a background in mental health services and creative writing. In alignment with her personal and professional values, she is committed to increasing access to vulnerable populations through social justice and racial equity frameworks.

Caroline Cave holds a BA in English from Queens University, an MA from Hollins University, and a Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management from UNC Charlotte. After doing her time in corporate America, she combined her administrative skills with her background in and enthusiasm for wordsmithing, putting it to use on behalf of organizations that deliver tremendous good into the world, and discovered the perfect career in grant writing. She has more than 15 years of experience with North Carolina nonprofits of all sizes, and successfully secured more than $6.1 million in funding through grants and sponsorships in fewer than five years. She combines a passionate belief in and advocacy for the arts, social justice, and human services with an innate love of language, plus an incredibly literal and detail-oriented personality with a talent for organizational and administrative tasks.

Sara Cortes is a strategic storyteller with a decade of experience in nonprofit development and communications. A graduate of Harvard University, she helped shape institutional messaging to engage donors and cultivate a culture of giving during the school’s $9.6B capital campaign. At Austin's Blanton Museum of Art, she expanded proposal development by 65% during COVID and led the museum's first successful proposal to the National Endowment for the Humanities. As a fundraising consultant, she's led change management and corporate partnership strategy, structuring stakeholder outreach to drive these partnerships to sustaining support. She is a graduate of Harvard University and Emerson College.

With over five years of fundraising and grant writing experience in human services, Becca has a track record spanning both public and private grants. Becca has gained a Master's degree in Grant Writing Management and Evaluation and brings a unique blend of academic knowledge and practical expertise including  grant management, budget development, and impactful proposal and report writing. Becca loves to help nonprofits tell their stories and gain the funding needed to create impact and change in their communities.

Alicia Jones started as a journalist and shifted into grant writing soon into her career, but both share the roots in compelling yet concise storytelling. She started at a small nonprofit seeking local government contracts and ended at a civic engagement affinity group working alongside some of the biggest names in philanthropy before transitioning into freelance consulting. As a grants consultant since 2022, she has helped raise more than $1,000,000 from public and private sources, including an ambitious capital campaign. Her specialties are social service programs and the arts, but as someone who loves learning new things, she enjoys the challenge and growth that comes from writing in new fields. She loves having the ability to aid programs and projects she believes in to grow and better serve their community.

Shakira O'Kane is a graduate of Binghamton University and Emory University School of Law. She was admitted to the Illinois Bar and served as Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of Chicago in the Torts Division until she could no longer ignore the call to serve and give back to her community in a more substantial way. Shakira moved back to her hometown, New York City, and received a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Duke University, and the rest was herstory. She is an expert in program development and management and an experienced grant writer receiving six figure awards. She is not only a big idea person but also loves process and is a self proclaimed Data Junky. She believes that her mission is to help as many people as possible who have ideas to change the world, go from idea to implementation, making sure that they continue to put mission first.