Brienne Bellavita

Brienne Bellavita is a Senior Program Officer with the Walton Family Foundation, where she leads several focus areas, including education R&D, data systems, and career pathways. Throughout her career, she has dedicated herself to building coalitions and channeling local demand to advance systems-level change toward increasing education equity and improving economic mobility. Brienne led the creation of the Community Funding Accelerator (CFA) and the Alliance for Learning Innovation (ALI). She has also served as the Director of Operations for Democrats for Education Reform (DFER), where she managed the senior leadership team. Brienne received her MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business and two Bachelor of Arts from the University of Rochester in Political Science and Philosophy.