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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. 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