Quinn Lundberg is a Canadian charity worker, born in 1983, who co-founded an aid organisation in Brooklyn and a health education business in Los Angeles, took a master’s in public policy at UCLA along the way, and now serves on the board of a health charity covering two islands off the coast of British Columbia. She is married to Zach Galifianakis, the Hangover actor whose Netflix series about gardening on those islands went out in April 2026.
She has also spent her life dancing. Her biography on the website of the Inner Island Dance Collective, where she is listed among the founders, says she took her first tap class at six. It goes on to record that she has performed for Canadian peacekeepers in Afghanistan and Bosnia, danced on cruise ships and joined the BC Lions dance team. She has choreographed for stage and film and taught adults in their seventies as well as toddlers. She is training in Jungian analysis and dance movement therapy.
The geography of her work has tightened at every stage. Growing Voices funded projects in Malawi and North Carolina from an office in Brooklyn. LOOM ran classes out of a building in Los Angeles. Hornby Denman Health lends medical equipment to people living on two islands.
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Her work on Denman Island
Denman has a permanent population of roughly 1,400. Hornby Denman Health lists Lundberg among its directors for 2025-26. Hornby Islanders met in 1978 and counted more than a thousand hours of volunteer nursing they had already been providing free of charge, and the society was registered as a charity the year after. It runs counselling, medical equipment loans and home care for older residents.
She also appears as a member at large on the Denman Island Community School parent advisory council for the same year, and among the founders of the dance collective, which teaches island children and adults.
Netflix put the area on screen in April 2026. Galifianakis hosts This Is a Gardening Show, six 15-minute episodes filmed across Vancouver Island and the surrounding Gulf Islands, released to coincide with Earth Day. He told CBC News he had been visiting the area for 30 years and that the series grew out of about 25 years of hobby gardening.
“I also have young kids, and where food comes from these days seems very not good for them. For kids to be ignited by this is really my main goal.”
Growing Voices, and a wedding that asked for donations
Lundberg co-founded Growing Voices in 2008. By the charity’s own account, Melissa Leschuck ran it as chief executive while Lundberg was vice president, working out of an office in Brooklyn. It paid for work at community level and tried to strip out the friction that puts people off giving, including fees on volunteering. Its projects included:
- a domestic violence centre in North Carolina
- support for a small northern fishing village in Malawi
- exchanges intended to put donors in direct contact with local organisers
Two years after starting the charity, she finished a bachelor’s degree in international conflict resolution through the CUNY Baccalaureate programme at Hunter College. The UCLA master’s came later.
At the Los Angeles premiere of Due Date on 28 October 2010, the Getty photographer David Livingston filed his picture with the caption “Growing Voices co-founder Quinn Lundberg and actor Zach Galifianakis.”
The couple married at UBC Farm in Vancouver on 11 August 2012, in a ceremony that ran about half an hour. Guests were asked to skip presents and give to Growing Voices instead. Galifianakis had two Hangover films behind him by then.
The charity’s own account says it closed in 2016 after eight years, though Marie Claire still described Lundberg as its vice president in late 2017.
LOOM, and the Los Angeles years
Lundberg met Erica Chidi in 2016, when Chidi was working in Los Angeles as a doula and childbirth educator. The two opened LOOM in the city in October 2017, teaching classes on pregnancy, birth and sexual health. Los Angeles magazine called it the first centre for inclusive parenting in Los Angeles.
LOOM raised a $3 million seed round in 2020 and put its courses online the following year. TechCrunch was still naming Lundberg as co-founder in that 2021 coverage. When the women’s health brand Perelel bought LOOM in October 2024, reporting on the deal described Chidi as the last employee left. Lundberg is not mentioned anywhere in it.
The Saskatoon endorsement
Her family has surfaced in her husband’s public life at least twice, both times in the same place. Hours before polls opened in Saskatoon’s mayoral election in October 2016, candidate Charlie Clark’s campaign released a roadside video endorsement from Galifianakis, who called him “a splendid man.” Clark won by about 3,000 votes.
A complaint that the endorsement should have been declared as a campaign contribution was dismissed the following year, on the grounds that support with no money attached is not a donation. In January 2017, Galifianakis was photographed at Los Angeles Zoo wearing a Charlie Clark campaign T-shirt.
Lundberg is the niece of Clark’s stepmother.
The marriage and the children
The couple have two sons. The first was born in September 2013 and his name has never been made public. The second, Rufus Emmanuel Lundberg, was born on 7 November 2016 at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles and carries his mother’s surname.
Galifianakis has been consistent about keeping them out of view. He used to tell the boys he worked as a librarian. He told People in May 2025 that he had “never wanted my real life and show business to combine,” and said the family lives remotely.
His wife has appeared alongside him in public over the years: the American Ballet Theatre gala in New York in May 2010, the Dinner for Schmucks premiere that July, a Beverly Hills dinner in November 2014 under her full name, Mary Quinn Lundberg, with no husband in the frame, and the Lilo & Stitch red carpet in May 2025.
What the record does not cover
She has never given an interview about the marriage. She did talk publicly about her own work, to Los Angeles magazine and Marie Claire, while LOOM was getting started, and then stopped.
Her elder son’s name has not been published. Neither has her exact date of birth, which leaves her at 42 or 43. Her birthplace is widely given as Edmonton, though no named outlet has confirmed it. The last time her name appeared in press coverage of her own work was 2021, and what she has done professionally since is not on the public record.
The biography on the dance collective’s website runs to fewer than a hundred words. It does not mention her husband.
