Brigette Rouson

Brigette Rouson, JD, MA, CPC (she/li/ella), principal of Rouson Associates, brings more than 25 years’ experience building capacity to create a just society. Brigette seeks to connect self-transformation to social transformation. She has consulted to over 250 groups, independently or with nonprofit capacity building groups. Her organizational development focuses on BIPOC/global majority-led liberation groups, especially governance, organizational assessment, and change processes. A graduate of Blooming Willow’s Black Conductors program, and certified by the International Coaching Federation, she supports changemakers to grow and heal toward collective liberation. Earlier, as Alliance for Nonprofit Management program director, Brigette co-founded a capacity-builders of color network that sparked field-wide equity initiatives. Previously at Ms. Foundation for Women, she directed girls’ and young women’s leadership grantmaking with a $4 million collaborative focused on gender justice, racial equity, and intergenerational power-sharing. Brigette is a co-founder and board member of Diverse City Fund, which makes grants for social justice work by BIPOC/global majority people in the nation’s capital, and served as an early co-convenor of a regional funders’ group, Resourcing Radical Justice. She is involved in local organizing and activism, including faith-based initiatives. A graduate of Howard University (B.A.), Georgetown University (J.D.), and University of Pennsylvania (M.A.) she completed all coursework toward a Ph.D. in communications with cultural anthropology approaches.