Brittany Collins is a trusted, strategic advisor and social impact strategist with over a decade of experience in urban public education, community development, and the non- profit sector. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation in Atlanta, GA. Prior to joining the philanthropic sector, she served as the Founding Director of PAACT: Promising All Atlanta Children Thrive, a citywide alliance of public and private partners focused on improving outcomes for young children in Atlanta. Under her leadership, she deployed a $2 million rapid response grant fund to stabilize the childcare sector and support families with young children during the pandemic. She was also instrumental with supporting Atlanta Mayor Andre Dicken’s administration to develop a comprehensive early childhood strategy that led to the development of a historic $20M investment fund to improve early childhood access across Atlanta neighborhoods. Prior to joining GEEARS, she served as the Managing Director of Program for OneGoal Metro Atlanta. In that role, she was chiefly responsible for setting, defining and managing the overall direction of the OneGoal program in Atlanta, ensuring efficiency and efficacy in delivery of the model. Before joining OneGoal, Brittany served as a Community Development Advisor at Purpose Built Communities, a non-profit, community development consulting firm that works with local leaders to implement a holistic approach to revitalizing distressed neighborhoods. She managed approximately 18 start-up backbone organizations seeking to replicate and implement a national model. She specifically supported the development and identification of resources to deploy targeted housing, education, and community wellness intervention strategies to improve neighborhood health and life outcomes in over 18 cities; and developed tools to formalize public-private partnerships with a focus on scaling high quality early learning programs.