Denise Graves, Emeritus

Denise, the visionary for Peris Housing, has been committed to youth development for many years. She served as a Guardian Ad Litem in Hennepin County where she saw first-hand the gaps in supportive services for youth aging out of foster care. In 2014, with the sale of their home-grown business, Convey Compliance Systems, Denise, and her husband John created the John and Denise Graves Family Foundation (Graves Foundation). They used the proceeds from the sale of Convey to endow the foundation and asked their son, Bill Graves, to launch and manage it.