Volunteers

Linda Koenig is from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and has dedicated much of her time to volunteering. In Wisconsin, she’s volunteered at Special Olympics for 20 years as a Track, Tennis and Volleyball coach and at the Milwaukee Art Museum’s Lakefront Festival of Art for 20 years (and counting!). In Naples, she volunteers at the Naples Zoo, Naples Botanical Gardens, the pickleball tourney and the Chubb Classic, but her favorite place to volunteer is at the Naples Children and Education Foundation (NCEF). She is amazed at how much is raised to support so many different charities; it warms her heart! She loves getting to meet so many awesome people, volunteers and staff. Her favorite NCEF memory is when she spent her first year volunteering for Wine Down and had to haul cases and cases of wine back to the storage closet at the end of the night.

As a lover of tennis, one of Linda’s big bucket list items is attending the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the French Open. She’d also like to hike Machu Picchu and go on a bike trip in Tuscany. In addition, she enjoys singing; when she was very young, she used to play the acoustic guitar. If she could have any superpower, she would love to be able to create peace in the world, just by twitching her nose!

Linda’s favorite quote is “Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.”