About
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, Founder & Principal
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).
Contact: [email protected]
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).
Contact: [email protected]
Lead Collaborators
VDC is frequently a collaboration between Brit Campese and other colleagues who have shared values. Our collaborators provide additional support, alternative perspectives, and connections to people, ideas, and resources. Individuals listed below have been or are currently collaborators on specific client projects.
Jamila MedleyJamila 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. Contact: [email protected] |
Noelle WarfordNoelle 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 wiling 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.
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Dr. Jumoke WarritayDr. 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] |
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Ellie CrowellEllie Crowell (they/them) is a Philadelphia-based independent consultant and grassroots organizer who has spent the last decade working and volunteering in non-profit, co-operative, and movement-based community organizations. From 2019-2025, they worked for a Philadelphia food bank, Share Food Program, first running warehouse operations and then acting as the Program Director of the expansion of Share’s emergency food relief programming in Delaware County, PA. They are motivated to support teams and community organizations through participatory, anti-capitalist, and anti-racist program development.
Ellie has been involved in movement building towards systemic change for many years and currently volunteers with Juntos, a latine-led immigrant justice organization based in South Philadelphia. They hold a deep belief in abolitionist and healing principles, and consistently work to build a world that is actively pro-human, where no person is disposable and all people deserve the right to a dignified and safe life. They hold a BA from Cornell University. Contact: [email protected] |
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Allison Erdneka BudschalowAllison 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] |
Selina MoralesSelina Morales (she/her) is a Philadelphia-based public interest folklorist whose work focuses on urban folklife and the role of community aesthetics and heritage in social justice action. She consults on local and national projects. Selina worked at Philadelphia Folklore Project, one of the country’s premiere folklife organizations, for nearly a decade. As the Director, from 2013-2019, she tended the mission and vision of the organization. At the Folklore Project she collaborated on groundbreaking folklore and social justice initiatives such as: Honoring Ancestors – an ethnographic exhibition highlighting contributions of African and African American dancers and drummers, the Liberians Women’s Chorus for Change (including Assistant Producer for the Because of the War film), Soul Songs: Inspiring Women of Klezmer and La Ofrenda: Beauty Made Visible – training community artists in ethnographic processes to learn about Mexican home altars in Philadelphia’s undocumented Mexican community.
Selina completed her M.A. in Folklore at Indiana University -Bloomington, where she also completed PhD coursework and exams. Selina holds a B.A. in Anthropology from Oberlin College. Before joining PFP, Selina worked at Traditional Arts Indiana (2006-2010). Selina has been an invited speaker in University and community settings on social justice and folklore, public interest folklore theory and practice, Latino folklore, folklore and education and urban folklore. Selina is a faculty member at Goucher College’s Masters in Cultural Sustainability program where she teaches a course on ethical and effective cultural partnerships and another on non-profit leadership and management. Selina is the Board Chair of the Folk Arts Cultural Treasures Charter School and a member of the Advisory Council to the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. In 2017, Selina was honored as one of the Delaware Valley’s 50 Most Influential Latinos. Contact: [email protected] |