Christopher North

About Christopher

• I attended Loyola Marymount University, where I received my bachelor’s degree in business and later attended UCLA, where I earned a Master’s of Business Administration.
• In 1985, shortly after graduating from college, I was asked to lead a service trip to Tecate, Mexico, to help a group of LMU students paint the dormitory of an orphanage and boys home.
• On that trip, I met my now-wife and business partner, Julianne.
• Together, we started an organization at LMU called De Colores, which is still in operation and organizes monthly student trips to build homes and schools in Tijuana.
• After Julianne graduated, I moved to Mexico with her, we got married, and we continued to help fundraise and help out with various charitable projects.
• In 1999, we decided to start our nonprofit, Build a Miracle, which focuses on building homes so that children can be raised by their families instead of having to live in an orphanage.
• Initially, our goal was to gather friends and family and to build one home a year, but over the year’s the organization has grown and grown—we have now built over 350 homes to date.
• In addition to my work with Build a Miracle, I also work as an entrepreneur in engineering, manufacturing, and aerospace.