As a Consultant at the Wright Collective, Mary Demery advises on best practices for fundraising with donors and foundations, brings an eye for numbers and budgets to support her nonprofit clients’ needs for financial growth and strategy, and provides expert grant writing services. She is passionate about birth justice and loves working with clients who are changing the way the world gives birth. She also loves supporting health, girls’ education, and working with international clients. She has brought in over $2.75 million in grant funding in the past three years.

Mary was born in Detroit and grew up in the suburbs before attending the University of Michigan for an undergraduate degree in English. After graduation, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she worked in publishing and teaching. Ever-curious about the world around her, she moved to Vietnam to teach English in 2018 before moving home to Detroit just before the pandemic hit. She started working with the nonprofit Birth Detroit in 2020, and has cherished the experience of learning from and leading with the Birth Detroit team as they work to open Detroit’s first birth center in 2024. 

Mary now splits her time between the Wright Collective and Birth Detroit. She loves connecting with her clients and helping them get funding, and she brings positivity and attention to detail to her projects. A results-driven, friendly, strategic business development leader, Mary is a strong writer, with an eye for the bigger picture and a knack for getting things done.