Ginger Gaetz biography: 22 more things about UCSB alum from Niceville, Florida

Who is Ginger Gaetz?

Ginger E. Luckey Gaetz is an American woman from Niceville, Okaloosa County, Florida, United States. She attended the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in Santa Barbara, California, USA and the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) in Berkeley, California.

Aside from Santa Barbara, Gaetz has lived in other parts of California including Newport Beach. She is 12 years younger than her husband Matt Gaetz, a Republican politician from Florida.

In 2014, Ginger’s older brother Palmer Luckey sold his virtual reality company Oculus VR to Facebook for $2 billion. In 2019, he married Nicole Edelmann.

In 2021, Ginger studied sustainable business strategy at Harvard Business School Online and in 2023, she studied future of technology at the UCB’s Walter A. Haas School of Business. Here are 22 more things about her:

1. From 2008 to 2013, she was a sailing coach at Alamitos Bay Yacht Club in Long Beach, California.
2. From 2012 to 2016, she attended the UCSB where she earned her bachelor’s degree in economics and accounting. 
3. From 2014 to 2016, she was a worship leader at Cru Global.
4. From June 2015 to August 2015, she was a tax intern at PwC in Irvine,  Orange County, California.
5. From September 2016 to June 2020, she worked as a financial analyst at Apeel in Santa Barbara.
6. From 2017 to 2020, she was a Big Brother Big Sister Foundation, Inc. volunteer.
7. In 2018, she attended Corporate Finance Institute (CFI), an online training and education platform for finance and investment professionals based in Vancouver, British Columbua, Canada
8. From January 2019 to June 2020, she was a revenue analyst at Apeel. 
9. On March 8, 2020, she first met Matt at a fundraiser Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago club  in Palm Beach, Florida.
10. From June 2020 to October 2021, she was a full-time sales operations and enablement analyst at Apeel.
11. On the evening of December 31, 2020, Matt proposed to her at Mar-a-Lago club.
12. On January 3, 2021, she was with Matt at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., USA.
13. On January 28, 2021, she and Matt attended a rally against Liz Cheney in Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA.
14. On April 9, 2021, she and Matt attended the Save America Summit at the Trump National Doral golf resort in Doral, Florida.
15. On August 21, 2021, she and Matt got married on Santa Catalina Island in Los Angeles County, California.
16. From October 2021 to September 2023, she was a senior associate at KPMG US and in October 2023, she became a manager at the same company.
17. On October 11, 2023, she and Matt attended a rally for Trump hosted by Club 47 USA at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida.
18. On April 19, 2024, she was with Matt at the House of Representatives on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
19. On June 15, 2024, she and Matt attended The People’s Convention at the Huntington Place Convention Center in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
20. On August 27, 2024, she turned 30.
21. On November 14, 2024, she and Matt attended the America First Policy Institute Gala at Mar-a-Lago.
22. On December 15, 2024, she and Matt attended the New York Young Republican Club’s annual gala at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City, New York.