Brittany Butler

Biography

Brittany provides strategic direction across the portfolio of activities for SICI. As Adjunct Faculty, she designs and teaches in SICI’s social impact accelerator as well as a course called Effective Implementation.

Brittany joined SICI after serving as Founding Executive Director of the education non-profit, Character Lab. Under her leadership, the organization created online content that reached 500K people and translated multiple evidence-based studies into products used by diverse schools across the US.

Brittany also launched and ran a non-profit in post-Katrina New Orleans, which created and trained a makeshift network of mental health providers to serve the city’s uninsured population. While the city’s public hospital was closed, this network of organizations and citizens delivered mental health and resilience services more than 100,000 times, trained hundreds of providers, and opened two Health and Resilience Centers that are still in operation today.

Brittany’s experience building socially focused organizations and creating collective impact is an important reference point as a mentor for other social innovators aspiring to drive system level change as well as when visioning and directing activities at SICI.

Finally, Brittany is keenly interested in advancing effective collaboration between universities and social actors. She fostered university-community relationships while Director of Partnership Initiatives for the RAND Corporation in the Gulf States, which paved the way for a new Rand Policy Institute in the region as well as cross-sector programming and community based participatory research efforts focused on equitable public health outcomes.

Brittany has an MPP from Harvard and a BA from Yale. She has presented about her work at the White House and through both peer reviewed and popular publications.