Vision Driven Consulting (VDC) supports the visionary work of artists, community organizers, cooperatives, and not-for-profit organizations by providing consulting, facilitation, and training services.

Brittany Campese, Principal & Founder

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Brit Campese (she/her) has been working in the nonprofit sector for more than 20 years and combines her education in women's studies and nonprofit management to provide holistic support to change-makers and artists. As a white, cis woman who was raised in rural Western New York, she considers herself both an ally and an accomplice in the struggles for racial justice.
 
Through Vision Driven Consulting (VDC), Brit has provided consulting and training services to hundreds of individuals and organizations across the United States. VDC offers support to grassroots, community-led groups and large, national organizations - always utilizing a sliding scale fee structure to ensure accessibility. In a given week, Brit can be found working with various partners across different cultural communities, providing deeply personalized support. She is also a Co-Founder & Co-Lead of Securing the Roots (STR), a fellowship program designed to expand the fundraising capacity for community-based organizations (particularly those led by BIPOC and gender-oppressed leaders) with budgets up to $1 million.
 
Brit is dedicated to love, social justice, and collective liberation, and works hard every day to help build skills and secure resources with individuals and communities that are doing the most visionary work. She recently moved from West Philadelphia (Lenaii Lenape land) to Ithaca, NY (Haudenosaunee and Cayuga land). 
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Contact: [email protected]
VDC is frequently a collaboration between Brit Campese and other colleagues who have shared values. Collaborations provide clients with additional support, alternative perspectives, and connections to more people, ideas, and resources. Individuals listed below have been or are currently collaborators. ​
Dr. jumoke warritay
Dr. Jumoke Warritay (she/her) is a consultant, culture worker, facilitator, and educator. She works with communities and organizations to transform culture and structures into inclusive, equitable, antiracist and just work environments. In addition to conducting assessments, skill building and strategic planning with clients, Jum uses embodied healing practices, storytelling, dialogue, and self-reflection as tools to build empathy, understanding, and connections across different perspectives and lived experiences. Jum has worked with municipalities, community colleges and universities, radio stations, tech and health companies, and international NGOs. She holds a doctoral degree in Sociology from Cornell University and a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University. In addition to cultivating our collective liberation, Jum enjoys dancing, playing volleyball, and eating pie. 

Contact: [email protected]
noelle warford
Noelle Warford (she/her). I am a Philadelphia-based organizational consultant and coach who is passionate about fostering courageous leadership, well-resourced and cohesive teams, and organizational cultures and partnerships rooted in care, clarity, and collective purpose. Over the years, I’ve served as a social worker, teacher of non-traditional students, and non-profit leader. Each role has shaped my worldview and strengthened my belief that individuals working collaboratively toward a shared goal can make the seemingly impossible possible—especially when they’re willing to take bold leaps, learn from mistakes, and regenerate together. This belief is grounded in my direct experience as a practitioner. For over a decade, I’ve engaged in local and national organizing efforts to advance racial and economic justice in food systems and alternative-institution building. As Executive Director of the Neighborhood Land Power Project—a community-based food and land justice nonprofit in West Phily—I led a colective process to rearticulate our mission, vision, values, and theory of change; develop strategic goals; and build the systems and infrastructure to carry them out. Our 8-year organizational transformation is documented in Many Hands, Light Work, a self-published case study series written by staff and partners that demonstrates how incremental changes can lead to transformative impact.  I value the development of socio-emotional capacity as a cornerstone of leadership, and I support emerging and seasoned leaders and teams to confidently and skillfully carry out impactful work. 

Contact: [email protected]
jamila medley
Jamila Medley (she/her) is a changemaker and relationship weaver who helps organizations transform. Jamila thrives when working with start-ups and well-established organizations - non-profits, foundations, and cooperatively owned businesses - on the precipice of emergent and designed change. As an organizational development practitioner, she supports organizations in operationalizing their values through highly participatory processes related to governance, strategic planning, resource generation, leadership development, project management, and more.

Jamila is a part of Solidarity Resource, a multi-racial collaborative of co-op developers, educators, and labor organizers that builds the tools co-ops need to launch with intentionality.  She has also been a collaborator with the Solidarity Economy Principles Project and Securing the Roots. 
​From 2012-2021, Jamila served in governance roles and then as executive director of the Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance (PACA). She is the founder of the Black Women at Home Project which visibilizes the ways in which Black women embody, make meaning of, and celebrate home. 
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Contact: [email protected]
joseph ahmed
Joseph Ahmed (he/they) is an arts administrator, Certified Diversity Professional®, and multi-disciplinary performance artist based in Philadelphia, PA. He has spent a decade in the administration of nonprofits, cooperatives and grassroots movement-based organizations. 

From 2019-2023, he worked with Young Audiences of New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania, rising to the position Director of Artist Services and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access (DEIA). In that role, he developed new systems for annual DEIA planning, guided the work of a board DEIA committee, and presented at multiple conferences on the integration of equity work into institutional practice. 

They are a co-founder of Obvious Agency, one of the few arts-focused worker-owned cooperatives in the nation, which is featured nationally in conversations about workplace equity and democratic practice. Obvious Agency produces innovative interactive art experiences, creates original commissions for major arts institutions, and more. Joseph is also a leader within the grassroots collective Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists, where he has supported membership engagement, strategic planning, and development. They are a 2021 Securing the Roots Fellow. 
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As a genderfluid, mixed Asian artist, they draw on their lived experience and artistic training to approach organizational change in a way that uplifts marginalized voices, challenges conventional thinking, and bridges gaps in communication. As an actor, director, writer, circus artist, and more, his artistic work has been seen throughout the region and at major institutions in Philadelphia such as the Arden Theatre Company, Theatre Exile, Opera Philadelphia, and Asian Arts Initiative. He has toured nationally as a teaching artist and taught circus and theater to children ages 4-15 for over a decade. They hold a BFA in Theatre Arts from Boston University.
allison erdneka budschalow
Allison Erdneka Budschalow (she/her) has spent over two decades working in the nonprofit sector, based in Philadelphia from which she hails. For the past 10 years, she has been the development director for community based nonprofit organizations, effectively increasing revenue with particular emphasis on diversifying funding streams and securing grassroots fundraising efforts with individual donors of all sizes.

Previous to her resource generation and mobilization work, she worked with the American Friends Service Committee bringing social justice programming to life around the U.S. and globally by organizing with and supporting movements of movements for dignity, justice, and human rights for all. Allison has served on the Boards of Directors for a number of Philadelphia-based organizations, including Women in Transition and the Media Mobilizing Projct (MMP). She is currently an associate with Dragonfly Partners. 

Allison received her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology/Anthropology from Earlham College and her Master of Arts in Sustainable Businesses and Communities from Goddard College. She is passionate about the power and support that grassroots fundraising can provide to build, sustain, and win campaigns for our communities to thrive and create the better world in which we want to live. As a member of the Kalmyk Mongol diaspora, she is excitedly investigating the intersections of food, gentrification, race, class, and story-telling.

Contact: [email protected]
shawn furst
Shawn Furst (she/they) is an independent consultant who works at the intersection of business and community, and wrestles with the systems, histories and values that are involved. She's passionate about supporting organizations to create practices that express their deeply held values and vision for systemic change. She thinks in terms of strategy, governance, facilitation, finance and operations, and loves exploring the richness of data-based approaches to research and discovery.

Shawn worked for over 12 years in democratic workplaces in Portland, Oregon using consensus process in both the non-profit and cooperative sectors. She received an MBA in Sustainable Systems from Presidio Graduate School in 2021 and earned her B.A. in Community Development and Anthropology from The Evergreen State College. In her day-to-day, she loves finding participatory and fun ways to involve community members in creative projects. In her work, she’s finding the best ways to use her skills and experience to disrupt our current economic systems.

Contact: [email protected]