Jamie Nabozny knows firsthand how much a community can change a person's life. At 17, he arrived in Minneapolis as a runaway from rural Wisconsin, where growing up poor and queer had taught him some difficult lessons about belonging, survival and the importance of having people in your corner.

Minnesota's LGBTQ+ community became that place for Jamie. Organizations like OutFront Minnesota helped him find support and eventually pursue a landmark legal challenge that changed how schools could be held accountable for the harassment and abuse of LGBTQ+ students. It's an experience that shaped his understanding of what happens when people stand up for one another, and why having a voice matters.

Today, Jamie is an American Family Insurance agency owner with more than 20 years of experience in financial services. But his interest in financial literacy is deeply personal. Growing up, he watched his family struggle to make ends meet without the knowledge or resources to make informed financial decisions. Those early experiences helped shape his belief that understanding money shouldn't be a privilege reserved for people who already have it.

At The Porch, Jamie hopes to make complicated financial topics a little less intimidating and a lot more useful. From credit and banking to insurance, investments and retirement, he wants to help LGBTQ+ Minnesotans make informed decisions, protect what they've built and create greater financial security for themselves and their families.

Jamie is also a firm believer in fairness, a fan of both intelligent humor and terrible dad jokes, and someone who can happily talk about politics, financial literacy or The Golden Girls for hours.

But pull up a chair with Jamie and chances are the conversation won't begin with any of those things. It'll begin with his kids. And something tells us that's exactly where he'd want it to start.