Associate Vice President of Workforce Development Programs

After working 7 years in various direct service and supervisory roles, including Senior Director of Education and Training, for a non-profit agency in New York, Brittany now serves as the Associate Vice President of Workforce Development at Exodus Transitional Community. Brittany brings over 15 years of experience to this role, beginning her reentry career in 2007 while an undergraduate at Harvard University, where she was an intern in an alternative-to-incarceration program. Her role encompassed supporting youth and female participants through group and induvial sessions, promoting a sense of positive self-worth, and developing stronger relationships with each other, their families, and their communities. 

 

Brittany is committed to social justice, equity, and improving outcomes for people that have been marginalized, which led her to pursue a Master of Social Work degree from Columbia University. She completed her MSW in 2021, focusing on Management and Leadership. Brittany utilizes her academic knowledge and lived experience to provide transformative leadership in her current role, designing participant-centered programming and interventions to overcome barriers to success in all work readiness programs, reentry services, and youth development programs at Exodus. She contends that collaboration and collective leadership are essential to her role and imbeds these practices with the teams and programs she oversees. Furthermore, she feels implementing trauma-informed, person-centered approaches in direct services while promoting social-emotional learning and the development of soft skills and technical skills are essential to participant success. 

 She aims to provide a synergic form of programming that includes participant input and support with resources to help overcome barriers present in re-entry services.