Maine Working Homes is owned and operated by Merritt Carey and Andrew Curtis, former college classmates who share a passion for tackling problems in pragmatic, swift and creative ways.

Merritt is a lawyer-turned-consultant with diverse community-relations experience, most recently as Director of Community Relations for Luke's Lobster. After leaving the formal practice of law over a decade ago, she has worked on a broad range of projects and developed an expertise in working waterfront issues, fisheries and rural economic development. Merritt was instrumental in founding the Tenants Harbor Fisherman’s Co-op, Maine’s first vertically integrated fisherman’s co-op and the Maine Aquaculture Co-op, Maine’s first aquaculture co-op. Merritt graduated from Brown University, was a member of the second all-female team to race in the Volvo Ocean Challenge round-the-world yacht race and a member of the first all-female America’s Cup Sailing team.  She attended University of Auckland School of Law in Auckland, New Zealand, where she lived for several years, before graduating from the University of Maine School of Law. A mother of three, Merritt lives in Yarmouth, Maine with her husband.  Merritt spends much of her time in Tenants Harbor, where her family roots date back four generations.  

Andrew has spent twenty years working in finance in New York City, first at investment banks Merrill Lynch & Co. and Lazard Frères and later at several investment managers. Most recently, he served as an advisor to Annaly Capital Management, a real estate investment trust focused on housing finance and the residential mortgage market.  Andrew graduated from Brown University where he was a member of the men’s crew team.  He subsequently earned master’s degrees from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University. Andrew is currently Chairman of the Board of Managers at the Vanderbilt YMCA on the East side of Manhattan and has also served on the Board of the YMCA of Greater New York. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and four children and has deep family ties to Maine.