Brianna O

Director of Community Engagement & Impact at Rise Above Foundation
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(386) 825-5501
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United States, US

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Credentials

  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace Certificate
    USF Corporate Training and Professional Education
    May, 2021
    - Oct, 2024

Experience

  • Rise Above Foundation
    • United States
    • Non-profit Organization Management
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Director of Community Engagement & Impact
      • Jul 2021 - Present

      Rise Above works with the over 10,000 children in the Massachusetts foster care system. As the Director of Community Engagement and Impact at the Rise Above Foundation, it is my responsibility to: -Manage Rise Above’s strategy and execution of outreach efforts to the community, targeting key audiences that include social workers, foster parents, and youth through an equity lens. -Spearhead Rise Above’s first-ever Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) plan and oversee the Board of Directors DEI committee. -Manage the organization’s special projects and events for youth and young adult programming with a focus on uplifting lived experience. -Manage and oversee the organization's social media and marketing plan. -Support the Executive Director with fundraising, grant proposals, and event planning. Show less

  • Town of Amherst, MA
    • United States
    • Government Administration
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Co-Founder of the Community Responders for Equity, Safety and Service (CRESS) & CSWG Co-Chair
      • Sep 2020 - Sep 2022

      The Community Safety Working Group (CSWG) was appointed to make cutting edge recommendations through an equity lens to serve the 40,000 residents in Amherst, MA. As the Co-Chair of the Community Safety Working Group (CSWG) I: -Studied the complex issues of delivering community safety services to ensure racial equity, recommending reforms to the current organizational and oversight structures, and examining existing Town funding priorities for delivering community safety services. -Led forums for community stakeholders, launched research and recommendations to local and state political leaders and the greater community. -Developed and implemented two municipal departments and a long-standing Social Justice community committee to provide measurable efforts to ensure equity and inclusion amongst the Town of Amherst and community. -Developed and implemented Massachusetts first unarmed civilian response service to approach safety service through an anti-racist and trauma-informed lens known as Community Responders for Equity Safety and Service (CRESS). Show less

  • FOCUS- Friends of Children Inc
    • United States
    • Individual and Family Services
    • Director of FOCUS
      • Aug 2019 - Jul 2021

      FOCUS is a program to help young adults 18-26 who have experienced foster care navigate adulthood. FOCUS offers 1:1 mentoring, emergency funds for financial crises, and life skills classes to aid young adults in financial literacy, health and wellness, and career development. The program aids the 2,000 youth and young adults with foster care involvement in Western Massachusetts. As the Director of FOCUS, I: -Worked with community partners statewide to provide workshops for young people who experienced foster care in subjects such as health and wellness, career development, and financial literacy. -Recruited and trained volunteers on an ongoing basis in areas such as intersectionality in the child welfare system, racial equity, domestic violence support and prevention, and gender and sexuality. -Pursued community outreach, recruitment, marketing, volunteer management, event coordination, founding and facilitating the FOCUS Leadership Board, and advocating for Foster Care policy reform through the Children’s League of MA and lived experience-led press conferences. Show less

  • UMass Amherst
    • Higher Education
    • Diversity Consultant through the Academic Diversity Fellow Program
      • May 2018 - May 2019

      The Academic Diversity Fellows Program was designed to empower underrepresented voices to be heard to make resources more accessible to traditionally marginalized students at UMass Amherst, as a Diversity Consultant I: -I advocated for the needs of non-traditional students in the Legal Studies department by coordinating events and advocating for disadvantaged students to locate resources on and off-campus. The Academic Diversity Fellows Program was designed to empower underrepresented voices to be heard to make resources more accessible to traditionally marginalized students at UMass Amherst, as a Diversity Consultant I: -I advocated for the needs of non-traditional students in the Legal Studies department by coordinating events and advocating for disadvantaged students to locate resources on and off-campus.

Education

  • University of Massachusetts Amherst
    Bachelor's degree, Legal Studies, General
  • Framingham State University
    Nonprofit Management Certificate

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