Brianna was born in Massachusetts to a fine art sculptor and a tile-setter. She often helped her father on the job and spent many weekends volunteering at fine art shows with her mother, so she simultaneously learned the value of precision and perfection when laying tile puzzle pieces into grout, and the freedom of artists learning all the "rules" of their medium just so they can more uniquely break them to create a one-of-a-kind creature of beauty.
A Girl Scout Gold Award recipient, Brianna's final project was the writing and publication of a 40-page walking tour through Massachusetts' Wrentham Centre Cemetery, complete with a scale map of the cemetery's historical section and profiles on 28 cemetery "residents." Mostly focusing on historical residents about whom little was known, Brianna embarked on a journalistic journey to discover and fit together every tiny piece of information she could find to form a creative narrative that brought life to the dead and long-forgotten. Learn more here and here.
Brianna's history of non-profit involvement and service through her younger years earned her the Bonner Scholarship through Earlham College in Indiana. Bonner Scholars complete 280 hours of community service each academic year (an average of 10 hours / week), two summers of full-time service, and a cornerstone project over the course of the four-year program. The Bonner Scholar program provides valuable skill-building lessons and multiple opportunities for leadership, with many Bonner Scholar graduates taking on leadership roles in non-profit organizations soon after graduation.
Brianna graduated from Earlham College with a Bachelor of Arts, for which she designed her own "Creative and Expository Writing" major to learn the skills needed to successfully wield any form of writing. Her additional "Focus" in psychology further grew her fundamental understanding of human nature to better represent the human experience through writing.
She was first hired as a non-profit grant-writer in 2012, and she has since carved out a niche specialty of developing and implementing comprehensive institutional grant relations strategies to support organizations with no prior formal grant program. She is currently the Corporate and Foundation Relations Officer at Gilchrist Hospice Care, Inc. in Maryland. Learn more here.
Brianna lives in Maryland, where she is the emotional support human to Halby, a neurotic, now-geriatric rescue dog who may in fact be a cat in the wrong body.
A Girl Scout Gold Award recipient, Brianna's final project was the writing and publication of a 40-page walking tour through Massachusetts' Wrentham Centre Cemetery, complete with a scale map of the cemetery's historical section and profiles on 28 cemetery "residents." Mostly focusing on historical residents about whom little was known, Brianna embarked on a journalistic journey to discover and fit together every tiny piece of information she could find to form a creative narrative that brought life to the dead and long-forgotten. Learn more here and here.
Brianna's history of non-profit involvement and service through her younger years earned her the Bonner Scholarship through Earlham College in Indiana. Bonner Scholars complete 280 hours of community service each academic year (an average of 10 hours / week), two summers of full-time service, and a cornerstone project over the course of the four-year program. The Bonner Scholar program provides valuable skill-building lessons and multiple opportunities for leadership, with many Bonner Scholar graduates taking on leadership roles in non-profit organizations soon after graduation.
Brianna graduated from Earlham College with a Bachelor of Arts, for which she designed her own "Creative and Expository Writing" major to learn the skills needed to successfully wield any form of writing. Her additional "Focus" in psychology further grew her fundamental understanding of human nature to better represent the human experience through writing.
She was first hired as a non-profit grant-writer in 2012, and she has since carved out a niche specialty of developing and implementing comprehensive institutional grant relations strategies to support organizations with no prior formal grant program. She is currently the Corporate and Foundation Relations Officer at Gilchrist Hospice Care, Inc. in Maryland. Learn more here.
Brianna lives in Maryland, where she is the emotional support human to Halby, a neurotic, now-geriatric rescue dog who may in fact be a cat in the wrong body.