We Think Every Gathering Should Do More Than Look Good.

We design rooms that move people: literally and emotionally.

The florals, the lighting, the run-of-show all matter. But only in service of something bigger: getting a room full of people to feel something real, together, about a mission worth showing up for.

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CLIENTS WE’VE WORKED WITH

  • A logo with the word "DIVERSITY" in large gold letters, with smaller purple text reading "IN LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE" underneath, and a colorful starburst graphic on the left side.
  • Logo for Eat Real featuring a bowl with three leaves above it, in orange color.
  • Logo of the forging resilience organization featuring a circular design with a central geometric pattern and the words "Forging Resilience" around the circle.
  • A logo with the letters 'JP' inside a light blue circle on a wooden textured background.
  • Logo with the word 'mosaic' in lowercase black letters and a colorful molecular structure above it.
  • United Way Bay Area logo with stylized hand holding a person and concentric circles representing community support.
  • Conservation Lands Foundation logo with a bird flying over a landscape and a river
  • Four red blocks with white letters spelling I, C, and A arranged in a crossword style.
  • Berkeley Haas logo with yellow and white text on a dark blue background.
  • Logo of the All Stars Project of New York featuring a black star outline and teal text.
  • Cielo logo with a slogan 'Yes You Can' underneath.
  • A logo with silhouettes of pine trees and the text 'Sempervirens Foundation' in green and black.
  • TMC Community Capital logo with stylized symbol and text.
  • Logo of U-aspire with the tagline 'Prepare, Afford, Succeed'.
  • Blue square logo with the words "After School All-Stars" in bold, uppercase letters.
  • United Way logo with a hand holding a person and rays of light in the background, and the text 'United Way' and 'United Way Bay Area'.
  • Jumpstart logo in red text with stylized underline.
  • A logo featuring a world map divided into four quadrants. The top left shows North and South America, the top right has a tree, the bottom right has a lizard, and the bottom left displays the word 'AIDLA'.
  • Logo with the words 'FOUND / LA' and smaller text 'A Wurnard Foundation Initiative'
  • Logo of Women's White Collar Defense Association featuring stylized initials W W

Meet Your Gather Co Team

  • nonprofit event planner

    Rhiannon O'Leary

    CEO + FOUNDER + EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

    Gather Co was founded by Rhiannon O'Leary, who began her career in 2005 producing nonprofit galas and events in New York City before spending the next fifteen years working in-house at mission-driven organizations. Across five nonprofits of varying sizes, events were central to her roles in fundraising, talent, and DEl. For the last eight years of that chapter, she served as the internal head of events for two organizations.

    Alongside this professional experience, Rhiannon earned a Master's in Nonprofit Leadership from the University of Pennsylvania, with a deep focus on organizational psychology, leadership, influence, and social impact.

    Over nearly twenty years, she has partnered with organizations and companies to create world-class live experiences - bringing together leaders, boards, donors, communities, makers, and influencers to connect, support important work, and raise many millions of dollars.

    Gather Co has been built in alignment with this expertise. Our team of producers brings together hard skills, strategic thinking, creativity, and a deeply human approach to partnership. We take the time to truly understand our clients, their ecosystems, and their broader goals - and that care shows up in every project.

    Rhiannon was born in Berkeley, lived eleven years on the East Coast (NYC, Philly, and DC), and now lives in Oakland with her husband, Nick, a civil rights lawyer, and two sons, Breandán (10) and Wesley (7).

  • nonprofit event planner

    Eloisa Zuniga

    EVENT PRODUCER

    Eloisa is an event planning professional with over eight years of experience in Non-Profit and Corporate Events. Eloisa brings extraordinary project management leadership, extreme detail orientation, wondrous creativity, and solutions-orientation to the Gather Co team, among many other wonderful qualities.

    Eloisa holds a Hospitality Management degree from the prestigious UNLV in Las Vegas and she possesses a degree from the Culinary Institute of America, which has allowed her to marry her love for events with her culinary expertise.

    Her passion for hospitality extends to the world of wine, evident through her Specialist of Wine and WSET 2 certifications.

    At the core of Eloisa's success lies her genuine passion for food, wine, and hospitality. She believes in the power of these elements to bring people together, to create moments of connection and joy.

    When she isn't working on any of the above, she is happily having a cocktail on her balcony and eating pizza with her husband.

  • nonprofit event planner

    Shoshanna Howard

    EVENT PRODUCER

    Shoshanna has over 15-years of experience in event production, public relations, strategic communications & branding, and artist management. She has managed event planning, media, and marketing campaigns for small businesses, creative influencers, public figures, and nonprofits. Shoshanna brings inspired creativity, adept relationship management and an unbelievable ability to align the many, varied needs that show up for any event.

    An ambitious entrepreneur, Shoshanna started her company, Noticed Media in 2017 and is the Founder and Executive Producer of the Oakland Comedy Festival.

    When not working, Shoshanna can be found at a heels dance class or hiking the Oakland Hills with her loyal pup, Simi.

  • A woman in a black lace top placing roses on a decorated dinner table with multiple stemmed wine glasses, plates, and utensils.

    Nikki Frustere

    EVENT PRODUCER

    Nikki has over 18 years of professional experience producing large and small scale entertainment industry events, private celebrations & fundraising galas for some of the nation’s top firms and exclusive clients nationwide. Nikki embodies the 'duck calm on the surface, paddling like the dickens underneath' analogy. She is extraordinarily creative, positive, and solutions-oriented while she balances a million little details, dynamics, and holding everyone to very high standards with tremendous grace.


    Originally from Dallas, Nikki was raised with a sense of southern hospitality fostered by her parent's unique Brazilian/Sicilian flare for entertaining friends, executives, and foreign dignitaries while living overseas in Africa and Malaysia. From an early age, Nikki has enjoyed exploring different cultural traditions of entertaining and celebrating. That joy has grown into a passion for producing beautiful events with innovative designs, lasting impacts, & financial efficiency while maintaining grace under pressure, integrity, and discretion. 

Group of seven women standing behind a table with awards, flowers, and signs labeled with last name initials, at the WWCDA Awards Gala, with a white Christmas tree decorated with white ornaments and lights to the side in a room with wooden wall panel
A smiling woman holding a promotional pamphlet for Opportunity Fund at a vibrant event, wearing bright pink earrings and a matching sweater.
A large audience seated at tables in a dimly lit banquet hall, attending an event or conference.
Group of five women smiling for a selfie in a cozy room with a white fireplace, decorative paintings, and warm lighting.
An audience at a formal event, seated in theater-style rows, smiling and clapping.
Person pouring a yellowish cocktail through a cocktail strainer into a glass on a bar counter, with bar tools and bottles blurred in the background.
Crowd of people at an outdoor event, socializing and enjoying food and drinks on a terrace with plants and patio heaters.
Two men smiling and pointing at each other, both wearing gray caps with the logo of Conservation Lands Foundation, indoors with artwork on the wall behind them.
People attending an outdoor event, smiling, talking, and socializing with some holding drinks, under a large white tent with lush greenery in the background.
Two women, one younger and one older, smiling and greeting each other outdoors during daytime. The younger woman is holding a glass of champagne, and they are engaging in a warm moment. There are trees and other people in the background.
Audience attending a presentation or conference in a modern, industrial-style venue with concrete pillars, a dark ceiling, and large projection screens displaying slides.
Display of coffee bags and informational signage for Urban V's Coffee at Cielo Night Market, including small cards with the company's logo and a larger sign with a description of the company.
A DJ is opening a gift with a microphone in his hand at a party, with people in the background.
An elderly man and woman are happily laughing together at a celebration. The woman is wearing glasses, a red dress with floral embroidery, and a festive red hat. The man is wearing a dark jacket over a black T-shirt with a blue and yellow design, and
Four women in black outfits posing together inside a modern, multi-level building with glass walls, black structural beams, and round hanging lights, near a bar with flowers on it.
Two women smiling closely at the camera, one with blonde hair wearing a black sleeveless top, and the other with short black and white hair wearing a red sweater with white patterns.