Brigitta has extensive experience working at acclaimed organizations focused on responding to natural and man-made disasters, alleviating global poverty, empowering women, improving access to health care and sanitation, and providing education. She has worked diligently to align the needs of organizations with the priorities of foundations, corporations, and US Government donors to have the greatest shared programmatic impact.

Over the last 16 years, Brigitta has worked for nonprofits to develop relationships with a range of donors to raise support for humanitarian programs and projects around the world. Her work frequently involved close coordination with program colleagues to ensure timely program delivery, monitoring, and reporting.

Most recently, at Junior Achievement of Greater Boston, Brigitta managed the organization’s relationships with foundations to generate support for K-12 financial literacy, career readiness, and entrepreneurship programs. Her efforts resulted in the organization securing the largest grant in its 72-year history.

During her time at Management Sciences for Health, Brigitta managed the proposal development and submission process for multi-million-dollar bids for global health projects in Central America, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Ukraine, and Zambia. While at CARE USA—and later at Oxfam America—she played a key role in raising funds for humanitarian emergencies, while also coordinating essential health and education projects for women and children in Nepal and Honduras.

Brigitta was born in Budapest, Hungary and spent most of her formative years living and studying in Hungary prior to attending college in the US. During her college years, she interned at Peace Corps, American Civil Liberties Union, AmeriCorps, and Kis Tigris Vocational High School. She received her MA in International Development and Social Change, and her dual BA in Psychology and International Development and Social Change from Clark University in Worcester, MA.