Christopher North

Co-Founder

Build A Miracle

Any job you do, you can approach it from the perspective of making a difference. You can live every day that way.

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.