--- title: The First Ever Insurance Nerds Gift Exchange - InsNerds.com description: "2019 is coming to a close, and the team here at Insurance Nerds had a crazy idea. . . What would be a fun way to celebrate the our growing community of passionate insurance professionals? How about a \"Secret Santa\" style gift exchange? We've never tried anything like this before, but a friend of ours" --- [Insurance Nerds - Insuring Tomorrow ](https://insnerds.com/insights) # [The First Ever Insurance Nerds Gift Exchange - InsNerds.com](https://insnerds.com/insights/the-first-ever-insurance-nerds-gift-exchange) Written by [Carly Burnham](https://insnerds.com/insights/author/carly-burnham) | Dec 5, 2019 5:00:00 AM # The First Ever Insurance Nerds Gift Exchange by Carly Burnham 2019 is coming to a close, and the team here at Insurance Nerds had a crazy idea. . . What would be a fun way to celebrate the our growing community of passionate insurance professionals? How about a “Secret Santa” style gift exchange? We’ve never tried anything like this before, but a friend of ours thought up a way to facilitate it online, and we thought, let’s try it! So, here is how it works: 1. Visit this [site](https://www.adjusterid.me) by 12/13/2019! 2. Click on Secret Santa, and tell us a little about yourself. . . Your hobbies, likes, favorite foods.  This will help your Santa shop for you. 3. After registration ends, you will receive information the following day about who you’ll be shopping for. 4. Log back in to the site by 12/20 to mark your gift sent. A few things: 1. Due to shipping costs, we are limiting this to participants in the U.S. 2. We know our timing is cutting it close, so we don’t expect that participants will receive their gifts before the major holidays, but that’s ok! It’s fun to receive a surprise in the mail any time. If you have any questions, email us at [insnerds@gmail.com](mailto:insnerds@gmail.com). We are so grateful for your support this year, and we hope this is a fun way to get to know fellow nerds! ### About Carly Burnham Carly Burnham began her insurance career in 2004 as an office assistant at an agency in her hometown of Duluth, MN. She got licensed as a producer while working at that agency and progressed to serve as an office manager. Working in the agency is how she fell in love with the industry. She saw firsthand the good that insurance consumers experienced by having the proper protection. When Carly moved to Des Moines in 2010, she decided to commit to the industry, and she completed her CPCU in one year finishing it in 2012 and attending commencement in New Orleans. She completed her MBA at Iowa State University in 2014. During this time, she and Tony founded a Gen Y Associate Resource Group at Nationwide in Des Moines. After they had both left Nationwide, Tony recruited Carly to co-author and manage InsNerds.com. She has the difficult task of keeping his constant flow of crazy ideas focused and helping to flesh them out into useful articles. Carly enjoys sharing knowledge and ideas about the future of the industry and finds the website a good outlet for this passion. Carly is involved in the the CPCU Society Underwriting Interest Group. She also writes "Next Wave" a monthly column in the "Perspectives" section of Best's Review. - - ##### [ Carly Burnham](https://insnerds.com/author/carly-burnham/) + posts Carly Burnham began her insurance career in 2004 as an office assistant at an agency in her hometown of Duluth, MN. She got licensed as a producer while working at that agency and progressed to serve as an office manager. Working in the agency is how she fell in love with the industry. She saw firsthand the good that insurance consumers experienced by having the proper protection. When Carly moved to Des Moines in 2010, she decided to commit to the industry, and she completed her CPCU in one year finishing it in 2012 and attending commencement in New Orleans. She completed her MBA at Iowa State University in 2014. During this time, she and Tony founded a Gen Y Associate Resource Group at Nationwide in Des Moines. After they had both left Nationwide, Tony recruited Carly to co-author and manage InsNerds.com. She has the difficult task of keeping his constant flow of crazy ideas focused and helping to flesh them out into useful articles. Carly enjoys sharing knowledge and ideas about the future of the industry and finds the website a good outlet for this passion. Carly is involved in the the CPCU Society Underwriting Interest Group. 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