Bruni Pizarro (she\/ella) combines her creative and advocacy skills as the Director of Brand Strategy and Co-Founder of For La Di\u00e1spora, 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a> (2023). <\/p>\n\n\n\n She received a Master\u2019s 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\u2019s Hispanic Advisory Committee and as Board Advisor to the Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity, & Opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5692,"menu_order":0,"template":"","sub_commission":[37],"class_list":["post-5691","board-members","type-board-members","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","sub_commission-latino-and-puerto-rican-sub-commission"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/cwcseo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/board-members\/5691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/cwcseo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/board-members"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/cwcseo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/board-members"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/cwcseo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/cwcseo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"sub_commission","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/cwcseo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sub_commission?post=5691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}