Business senior Lucy Gold founded Gold Student Sitters in October 2025. The network bridges the gap between University of Michigan students seeking babysitting jobs and Ann Arbor families searching for child care by providing a platform for students to advertise their services and families to hire them. The service started with 20 registered sitters and has since grown to 70.
In an interview with The Michigan Daily, Gold said she hoped to facilitate connections between families and students who didn’t have a way to easily find each other.
“I babysat a lot in high school, and when I got to (the University of) Michigan, that was my main source of income,” Gold said. “I didn’t know how to continue it, and the same was for a lot of my friends. We didn’t want to just put our faces on Facebook, and there’s a lot of families who want to tap into U-M students but don’t know how to do it, so I’m like the matchmaker.”…