About LIAH

Love Is A Habit — Reshaping the Future of This Generation

Our Mission

Love Is A Habit is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to reshaping the future of this generation. We believe a generation given the tools to chase their dreams and aspirations can change the world.

We are witnessing a unique intersection in history: a mental health epidemic alongside rapid technological change. Those forces have altered how people connect, often leaving a generation feeling isolated and ill-equipped. LIAH exists to close that gap — not by helping people merely survive their struggles, but by helping them flourish.

Our Story

LIAH began with a simple observation: our generation is facing unprecedented mental health challenges while being more connected than ever before. We saw young people struggling with anxiety, depression and isolation — often while scrolling through feeds where everybody else appeared to be fine.

We started in June 2022 by giving directly: scholarships for students who were close to walking away from their education, camps, workshops, and time with young people who needed somebody in their corner. That work taught us something we did not expect. Helping the person in front of you works — and the things failing this generation at scale sit further upstream, in the systems that are supposed to connect somebody to help and mostly do not.

So we asked a harder question. What if we built an organization that does not just help people survive their struggles, but changes the odds for the next person too? That is why LIAH exists. We are not another mental health resource — we are an effort to reshape how this generation experiences support, growth, and what it means to truly thrive.

Our Advisors

Love Is A Habit is governed by a board of directors. Our advisors are not directors and they do not vote — they bring expertise the board does not hold on its own, and they give us their judgement.

George R. "Chip" Grange II

Governance advisor

Gammon & Grange, P.C.

Co-founded Gammon & Grange nearly fifty years ago, a firm focused on nonprofits, churches and ministries, where his practice is governance, nonprofit transactions and risk management. He has practised law since 1974. He has also sat on the other side of the table as a founding board member of ECFA, the national financial-accountability standards body for Christian nonprofits, serving eight years on its board and standards committee and concluding as Board Chairman.

Grandfather of director Jack Grange. Serves without compensation.

Brian Jackson

Privacy & data-security advisor

Cyber Data Privacy, Deloitte

An attorney working in cyber data privacy, based in Maryland. He holds the Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP) designation alongside CISM and CGEIT certifications in information security and IT governance — which is the exact intersection our work sits on, since coordinating care between practices means handling the boundary between useful data and data we must never hold.

Dr. Elizabeth Carr

Founding member, Care Console · Clinical advisor

Founder, CEO & Clinical Director, Kentlands Psychotherapy

A clinical psychologist licensed in Maryland since 2006, she founded Kentlands Psychotherapy in 2005 after six years as a Navy clinical psychologist — serving as a lieutenant and finishing as department head of the substance-abuse rehabilitation programme at the Naval Hospital in Naples, Italy. She grew a solo practice into a group one, and now spends her time on leadership, mentoring and staff consultation rather than a caseload of her own. What she brings us is the clinician’s side of coordination: she has done the emergency assessments and the crisis calls herself, and she has spent twenty years hiring and keeping the people who do that work. As the Care Console’s first beta tester, she shapes it from the practice side, and what she asks for is built so that every practice on the network can choose it too.

Founder and owner of Kentlands Psychotherapy, the practice our care-coordination platform was built for and the first to use it.

Our Board

Our directors are legally responsible for the organization.

Ben Ezana

Co-founder · President & Board Chair

University of Chicago Law School, Class of 2026

Co-founded Love Is A Habit with Drew in 2022. He returns to the DMV area to practice business law, and his contribution to the organization has been making sure it is built to last rather than improvised — the structural and legal thinking behind how we are put together.

Drew Stoy

Founder & Executive Director · Secretary

Co-founded Love Is A Habit in Maryland in 2022 and leads the organization day to day — vision, partnerships and operations. He also builds most of what we run: the care-coordination platform behind our anchor practice and a growing network of partner practices, the referral network underneath it, and the tooling our coordinators use on live calls.

Jack Grange

Director · Treasurer

Business Development Manager, Thunderbird Federal

Business Development Manager at Thunderbird Federal, a firm that helps businesses grow and succeed in federal contracting, where he supports clients across the central United States. He is also an entrepreneur building his own tech startup, Aextil Federal, and a musician: as Grange, his top song “Caught In Thoughts” has passed two million streams on Spotify. He studied at the University of Colorado Boulder and is based in Germantown, Maryland. On our board he serves as Treasurer.

Grandson of advisor Chip Grange.

Come build this with us

We are growing our board and the circle of advisors around it. If you would like to help — as a director, an advisor, or a partner practice — we would like to hear from you.

501(c)(3) Nonprofit Organization

Founded June 2022 • Maryland

EIN: 88-2736198

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