Overview
Work History
Education
Community Outreach, Facilitation, and Workshops
Skills
Other Relevant Experience
Timeline
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Britt Korn

Philadelphia,PA

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

Philly Food Rescue Food Recovery Coordinator

Share Food Program
12.2021 - Current
  • Supervise daily food rescues throughout the Philly region, provide top-tier direction and communication to donors, nonprofit partners, and volunteers; saved 6 million pounds of food from landfills in 2024. Develop successful PFR volunteer outreach and retainment programs; expanded volunteer base by 69% in 2024. Collaborate on social media and communications management. Expand community impact and reduce barriers by extending program to over 300 nontraditional food distribution sites. Manage projects across other teams at Share as well as community partnerships. Organize and direct Share Community Fridge and other projects across collaborative Share teams.

Community Organizer

ACT UP Philadelphia
01.2022 - Current
  • Spearhead distribution of food and resources at weekly outreach initiative at Office of Homeless Services Intake Center. Organize community members and peer activist groups in actions addressing social and legislative change for Philadelphians with HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ+ identities, drug users, and unhoused population. Collaborate on grant writing and facilitate meetings of non-hierarchical intergenerational group.

Racial Equity Coordinator

YWCA Lancaster
06.2021 - 06.2022
  • Collaborated with team members to develop a data-informed training curriculum for student Racial Equity Institute. Facilitated effective conversations about difficult systemic and intersectional issues such as gender and race; directed white caucus in discourse of white people's responsibilities in dismantling structures of racism. Developed spaces for engagement and learning by building trust and establishing and upholding standards.

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts - Writing, Literature, & Publishing

Emerson College
Boston, MA
12-2017

Community Outreach, Facilitation, and Workshops

Board of Directors, Northwest Mutual Aid Collective (2024-present)

Director of Volunteers for grassroots, non-profit food resource hub that supplies seniors, disabled residents, cancer patients, and low-income families in Northwest Philadelphia with healthy and nutritious surplus food. Volunteers provide monthly home delivery for 150 residents and and support various other food justice and food waste projects.

W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction (2024)

Trained as a movement organizer towards revolutionary change. Used framework of history, political economy, strategy, and skills to develop understanding of mutual constitution of capitalism, slavery and colonization, and patriarchy to provide roadmap for deconstructing oppressive systems.

White People Confronting Racism & Confronting White Supremacy (2023-2024)

Engaged in intensive workshops for white activists and organizers to strengthen anti-racist work. Increased understanding of how racism functions in nonprofits, organizing groups, and other community spaces. Built concrete skills to be an accountable accomplice to people of color, work in anti-racist coalitions, and address racist situations at work and home. Increased ability to support other white people's work towards racial justice.

Skills

Multilingual (fluent English, French, elementary Spanish); community organizing; grant writing; program development & facilitation; project management; data management; strategic planning; communications & writing; social media; leadership & relationship-building. Google Suite, Microsoft, Mailchimp, EveryAction, Salesforce.

Other Relevant Experience

Jewish Voice for Peace Philadelphia, Member-Organizer (2023-present)

Food Not Bombs, Member-Organizer (2024-present)

Save Chinatown Coalition (2024-present)

Timeline

Community Organizer

ACT UP Philadelphia
01.2022 - Current

Philly Food Rescue Food Recovery Coordinator

Share Food Program
12.2021 - Current

Racial Equity Coordinator

YWCA Lancaster
06.2021 - 06.2022

Bachelor of Fine Arts - Writing, Literature, & Publishing

Emerson College
Britt Korn