Gretchen Ginnerty | President

In 2011, Gretchen founded The Love Quilt Project after a mission trip to South Africa with St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Arlington, Virginia. The focus of this trip was to complete the construction of a foster home for 6 children in the township of Masiphumelele. During this experience, Gretchen realized there was a much bigger need across South Africa to help support the millions of children who had been orphaned mostly due to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. There was also a realization that American children needed to learn more about what was happening in South Africa. Gretchen’s passion for art and textiles and her involvement in child development came together with the design of a quilt that would not only wrap a child in warmth but also be filled with messages of love created by American children.

Gretchen is an award winning architect and interior designer with Raphael Architects in Doylestown, PA. She received her Bachelor of Science in the school of family studies from the University of Connecticut with a focus on interior design and child development and earned her Masters of Architecture degree from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and an allied member of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID). Most of the projects Gretchen has been involved with has focused on education buildings in the Washington DC area.