Samantha Yeager-Walrath

By: QCBJ News Staff|September 15, 2025

|2 min read

Director of Communications and Grants | Hand in Hand

AGE: 35

Home: Davenport

Education: Masters of Nonprofit Administration, Louisiana State University; bachelor’s in marketing, Columbia College, Chicago.

Hometown (childhood): Fulton, Illinois

First job? Hostess at Rastrelli’s in Clinton, Iowa

Local mentors? Angie Kendall, CEO of Hand in Hand; Julie Ward, my grandmother; and Linda Wastyn, owner of Wastyn…

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