Brooke Lindsey Kimbrough
Oak Park,USA
Summary
Personable and highly organized professional with a strong ability to foster positive relationships and create engaging developmental programs. Demonstrates solid understanding of leadership principles and possesses excellent communication and project management skills. Committed to driving impactful leadership growth within teams and individuals.
Overview
2025
2025
years of professional experience
Work History
Detroit Organizer
Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition (MEJC)
- Partnership Building: Established and nurtured partnerships with local justice organizations, coordinating regular outreach and collaborative efforts that strengthened community support networks.
- Branding and Communications: Created a cohesive branding and communications strategy for MEJC's pilot Organizer-in-Training program to significantly enhance targeted efforts to create a membership base that is representative of the most marginalized populations.
- Program Development: Designed the template for a 9-month Organizer-in-Training program to work collaboratively with Black Mothers in Detroit to become strong advocates for utility justice within their neighborhoods.
Field Director
Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition (MEJC)
08.2024 - 11.2024
- Management: Directly supervise 8-12 canvassers in targeted voter contact.
- Field Goals: Provide analysis on performance and implement plans to maximize results.
- Community Empowerment: Activate individuals to act on progressive policy demands by sending letters, emails, making phone calls, signing petitions, attending meetings, etc.
Program Manager
Umoja Debate League
05.2025 - 08.2024
- Management: Supervise and mentor interns throughout the summer program, ensuring they are effectively contributing to program goals and gaining valuable experience. Leads weekly meetings, where interns are provided with individualized feedback on areas of strengths and opportunities for growth.
- Program Development: Develop and facilitate African-centric speech curriculum for the Umoja Debate Summer Camp program. In addition, this position is responsible for general scheduling, logistics, and communication with participants, parents, and staff.
- Mentorship: Develop strong connections with students to help facilitate their growth as researchers, debaters, and community organizers.
Learning Facilitator
Agile Learning Center of New Orleans (ALCNO)
08.2022 - 03.2023
- Learning Offerings: Be in community with youth learners to observe their interests. Create offerings (games, informational sessions, etc.) based on their interests. Also created offerings based on my skillsets.
- Communicate with Community: Support intra-center issues with restorative conflict management tactics. Intervene during conversations around sensitive topics such as racism, heterosexism, classism, etc.
- Culture Creation: Actively create a culture of trust, integrity, respect, and love amongst the youth learners in the center and the broader community.
- Archiving the Learning Journey of Youth: Track the games, activities, and field trips which youth pursue in the center and creatively organize it so that it can be referenced for further support.
Student Leadership Council Manager
Bay Area Urban Debate League (BAUDL)
07.2020 - 11.2021
- Curriculum and Instruction: Create and execute a curriculum for practice content. Establish a plan to manage multiple experience and skill levels. Coordinate with the Executive Director to generate a budget for occasional guest lectures.
- Youth Recruitment: Work with BAUDL programming staff and teacher/coaches at all BAUDL schools to recruit students to participate in SLC and make sure students are aware of SLC opportunities and commitments.
- Mentorship and Development: Build strong relationships with students to improve competency in policy debate, public speaking, and civic activism. Maintain contact with students and send out reminders/notices of SLC activities via social media, email, text messaging, and phone calls in advance of events.
- Retention and Leadership: Create and distribute incentives for students and teams for participation and excellence in SLC activities.
- 1:1 Coaching: Schedule individual meetings with students throughout the week. Answer student questions via email and chat as they arise.
- Collegiate Pathways: Develop university and college relationships (DeCal, University of California Berkeley, San Francisco State University, San Francisco City College, Chabot College, etc.).
- Best Practices: Work with the Executive Director to develop procedures for safe interaction between guest lectures/outside coaches and students including background checks and best practices.
Community Youth Organizer
Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children (FFLIC)
01.2020 - 06.2020
- Increasing Constituent Capacity - Building the power and skills of youth and families to advocate on their own behalf, through the release of a Let Kids Be Kids Toolkit and trainings. The toolkit contained information on relevant Orleans parish data on the school to prison pipeline.
- Increasing Institutional Partnership and Collaboration - Attend and build relationships at community meetings.
- Mentorship and Leadership Development - Creation of programming curriculum and implementation for young black boys and girls ranging from 10-24.
Summer Lecturer
University Debate Institutes
06.2015 - 08.2018
- Research: Directed extensive research projects on a variety of topics. Some of those topics were political science, international affairs, rhetorical/communication theory, and philosophy.
- Curriculum: Scheduled and planned entire curriculum for 7 weeklong course (UMich)/ 4 weeklong course (Dartmouth).
- Argumentation Coaching: Honed and taught the skills of argumentation, rhetoric, and effective communication to juniors and seniors from elite national high schools.
- Branding: Organized extensive branding, advertising, and social media networking (Facebook, Twitter,) to attract a maximum applicant pool to a new incarnation of the program.
- Public Speaking: Lectured 200+ person audiences on rhetoric, philosophy, critical theory, and policy controversies.
Community Programming Assistant - AmeriCorps
Johnson County Social Services
01.2017 - 01.2018
- Conference Organization - Provided administrative support for the Spring 2018 'Urgency of Equity Conference: Ending Racial Bias in Youth Serving Institutions' sponsored by Iowa's Disproportionate Minority Contact Committee.
- Anti-Abuse Advocacy - Organized the 'Kites for Kids' annual event to raise awareness of child abuse in Johnson County, by providing free kites and treats to families.
- Responsive Youth Programming - Provided mentorship and curriculum support for G!World; a gender responsive, culturally informed after-school programming for girls of color in Johnson County high schools.
- Juneteenth Commemoration - Annual Johnson County commemoration of the emancipation of enslaved Africans in America featuring free food, games, live performances to residents.
Administrative Assistant
Women's Debate Institute (WDI)
01.2016 - 01.2017
- Database Management: Storing/organization of donors by date, gift size, and classification of gift type (one-time, recurring, and new).
- Advertising and Recruiting: Producing promotional material to incite staff applications, student applications, and recruiting new donors.
- Summer Camp Logistics: Collecting students/staff and transporting them to the Audubon Center of the North Woods from the Minneapolis Airport, arranging dietary needs of participants with facility cooking staff, manage student conflicts, oversee classes and camp-wide practices.
Education
B.A. - African American Studies, Gender and Women's Sexuality Studies
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA01.2018
Skills
- Analytical decision-making
- Distributed team coordination
- Team collaboration management
- Proficient in coordinating events
- Community engagement
- Talent acquisition
- Thorough quality assurance
- Effective volunteer coordination
- Relationship building expertise
- Presentation design and execution
Timeline
Program Manager
Umoja Debate League
05.2025 - 08.2024
Field Director
Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition (MEJC)
08.2024 - 11.2024
Learning Facilitator
Agile Learning Center of New Orleans (ALCNO)
08.2022 - 03.2023
Student Leadership Council Manager
Bay Area Urban Debate League (BAUDL)
07.2020 - 11.2021
Community Youth Organizer
Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children (FFLIC)
01.2020 - 06.2020
Community Programming Assistant - AmeriCorps
Johnson County Social Services
01.2017 - 01.2018
Administrative Assistant
Women's Debate Institute (WDI)
01.2016 - 01.2017
Summer Lecturer
University Debate Institutes
06.2015 - 08.2018
Detroit Organizer
Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition (MEJC)
B.A. - African American Studies, Gender and Women's Sexuality Studies
University of Iowa
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