More About Carol

Carol has worked in marketing and communications for more than 18 years.  She began her career in New York City, where she ran national publicity programs and put on special events, as Public Relations Director for Seventeen Magazine. She worked with well-known figures like Barbara Walters, as well as radio, television and newspapers across the country. After moving to the San Francisco Bay Area, Carol developed a public relations program for KQED-TV and started her own writing and editing business, reporting regularly for Time Inc.’s Parenting Magazine and other national and regional publications.

Carol has also done well in real estate. At Coldwell Banker, she ranked among the top 9% of agents nationwide. Moving to The GRUBB Company three years ago, she has continued to expand her business, offering her clients the exceptional services and staff of the East Bay’s top real estate agency.

Carol brings to her clients a strong sense of design and understanding of buildings, learned from her father, a prominent southern California architect and protégé of designers Ray and Charles Eames. She has completed many renovations on her own homes, finding talented young designers, craftsmen and service providers to help her.

Carol has lived the East Bay hills for more than 30 years and worked with many local community groups, a dedication to service that she also brings to her clients. She served as PTA President of Kaiser Elementary School in the Oakland hills, as Program Chair of the Piedmont League of Women Voters, as a board member of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Montclair, and as President of the Upper Piedmont Estates Homeowner’s Association.