Bruni Pizarro (she/ella) combines her creative and advocacy skills as the Director of Brand Strategy and Co-Founder of For La Diáspora, a cultural branding and design studio rooted in the Latine experience and centered on amplifying the narratives of diasporic communities. From 2020-23, Bruni served as Executive Director of Junta for Progressive Action, the oldest Latine social services in the Greater New Haven, CT area.
Bruni is also a writer and social science researcher. She connects her lived experience as a Puerto Rican from the diaspora with research and visual storytelling to bring forth a racialized and class-based understanding of the downstream impacts of climate disasters on oppressed communities of color. Bruni’s most recent and collaborative work on the effects of climate-induced disasters on Puerto Rican women was published in the University of Connecticut Law Review (2023).
She received a Master’s of Environmental Science from the Yale School of the Environment and completed her undergraduate studies at Vanderbilt University. Bruni serves on the Fellow Advisory Committee for the Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation. She co-chairs the Environmental Justice/DEIJ committee as a Board member of Save the Sound, an organization committed to environmental advocacy. She also supports equity efforts for the State of Connecticut as a member of Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro’s Hispanic Advisory Committee and as Board Advisor to the Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity, & Opportunity.
