Christie Garton Biography

Christie Garton is an award-winning social entrepreneur and founder of the 1000 Dreams Fund a scholarship fund that provides young women both college-bound and in college with up to $1000 in funding to help fulfill their professional dreams.
Christie has made it her life’s mission to open as many doors as possible for young women through the 1000 Dreams Fund. From her own experience Christie realized the importance of extracurricular experiences in fulfilling both her own dream as well as those of other young women. Many cannot pursue the experiences they seek in realizing their dreams due both to lack of funding and the crippling burden of student loan debt.
A long-time supporter of young women’s professional and creative growth Christie is also the creator of UChic.com an online magazine which became the best-selling college guidebook for girls – UChic: College Girls’ Real Advice for Your First Year & Beyond! (Sourcebooks). With more than 100000 copies of UChic sold the book is now in its fourth edition with a fifth on the way. She has penned six books on various facets of the college experience and millennial generation including the award-winning Marketing to Millennials: Reach the Largest and Most Influential Generation of Consumers Ever (AMACOM 2013).

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