Belinda Chiang
11 March 2008

Biography:

Britt Bravo grew up in Connecticut, and moved to the Bay Area after finishing a B.A. in Sociology at Vassar College. She has taught create career workshops based on the book Creating a Life Worth Living at venues across the country, and has coached hundreds of individuals on how to live their creative dreams. Britt has also worked for socially responsible businesses and nonprofits. Her experience includes running the juice donation program at Odwalla, organizing a “Shop Smart” campaign with the San Francisco Recycling Program, and teaching and eventually becoming Program Director and Manager of Volunteers at Streetside Stories, an arts education nonprofit. Now, she is a writer specializing in stories about individuals and organizations that are creating social change. She writes for blogs, produces podcasts and teaches people how to blog and podcast. Using her 17 years of experience working with nonprofits, socially responsible businesses, and artists, “Britt uses her counseling, organizing, blogging, podcasting, community outreach and communications skills to work with individuals and organizations to realize their ‘Big Vision’ for a better world.”

Quote from Beth Kanter at Beth’s Blog (beth.typepad.com):
“By profiling individuals and organizations who enact various visions of utopia, Oakland's Britt Bravo expresses her own hope for a better world. Through Big Vision, she broadcasts interviews with many of the East Bay's most successful activists for social change. Since its debut in early 2006, Big Vision has profiled more than twenty local visionaries, including Priya Haji (CEO and founder of fair-trade gifts and accessories store World of Good), Melinda Kramer (cofounder of Women's Global Green Action Network), and Eric Fenster and Ari Derfel (founders of organic catering and outdoor adventure company Back to Earth). The name of another of Bravo's blogs, “Have Fun * Do Good,” may be her daily mantra, but "big vision" is an equally apt tagline — beyond her writing, teaching, and podcast production work, she provides consulting services to nonprofits and individuals looking to create their own positive change.”

Current Projects:

She provides consulting to nonprofits and indivuals seeking to achieve their “Big Vision,” writes for the blogs Have Fun • Do Good, NetSquared, BlogHer, and Basic Blogging for Women, and produces podcasts for Big Vision and NetSquared. She was a mentor to young women bloggers as part of the Young Caucasus Women Project and the Blogs for African Women project. In Spring 2005, she spoke at, “Blogging for Business: An Insider's Look at How to Use Blogs at Your Company, Business or Nonprofit” produced by the Alliance of Technology and Women. She was recently interviewed for articles about women and blogging for the Contra Costa Times and Bay Area Business Woman.
Questions to be Raised During Visit:

1. What started you onto this path of creating positive social change as your life work?
2. Tell us about the career workshops you lead based on Carol Lloyd’s book, Creating a Life Worth Living. Why this book and not any other?
3. What’s a typical day like for you?
4. Can you expand on your two “mantras,” “Have Fun, Do Good” and “Big Vision.”?

Further Resources:

1. About: http://www.brittbravo.com/about.html
2. 10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs: http://havefundogood.blogspot.com/2006/03/10-ways-nonprofits-can-use-blogs.html
3. 7 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Podcasts: http://havefundogood.blogspot.com/2006/04/7-ways-nonprofits-can-use-podcasts.html
4. Six Steps to Everyday Activism: http://havefundogood.blogspot.com/2006/08/six-steps-to-everyday-activism.html

Blogs:

Sole Blogger, Have Fun • Do Good, http://havefundogood.blogspot.com/
A blog for people who want to make the world a better place AND have fun!

Community Builder, NetSquared, http://www.netsquared.org/
Remixing the web for social change

BlogHer Nonprofit and NGO Contributing Editor, BlogHer, http://www.blogher.com/
The community for women who blog. You say it. We share it.

Sole Blogger, Basic Blogging for Women, http://basicbloggingforwomen.blogspot.com/
Basic blogging tools and lessons for women wanting to start a Blogger blog

Podcasts:

Sole Author, Big Vision Podcast, http://bigvisionpodcast.libsyn.com/
Interviews with individuals & organizations creating positive change

Author of “This Week in NetSquared News,” NetSquared, http://netsquared.libsyn.com/
Remixing the world for social change

Website:

Consultant, Big Vision Career & Project Consulting, http://www.brittbravo.com/index.html
Helping individuals and organizations create positive change

E-mail: britt@brittbravo.com