About.

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). 
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Contact: [email protected]

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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 Medley

Jamila Medley (she/her) I am a leader and consultant who for over 20 years has supported mission-based organizations in the non-profit and cooperative business sectors.  I am passionate about supporting individuals and teams through highly participatory processes focused on leadership development, governance, and participatory management.  Diversity, inclusion, equity, and justice-seeking strategies are centered in my approach to moving organizations toward transformational change. 

From 2012-2021, I served in governance roles and then as executive director of the Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance (PACA).  At PACA, I partnered with other cooperators, elected officials, movement organizers, and funders to position cooperatively-owned enterprises as a robust and equitable economic development solution to economic and racial injustice in the Philadelphia region.  

I hold a M.S. degree in Organizational Dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania and earned my B.A. degree in Urban Studies from Connecticut College. I was an inaugural 2020 fellow in Securing the Roots Fellowship and was the 2018 Philadelphia Community Fellow for the Shared Economics in Equitable Development Fellowship. 
Currently, I serve on the board of directors for Independence Public Media Foundation, Movement Alliance Project as well as on the advisory boards of An Economy of Our Own, Quioveo, and All Together Now PA. 
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Contact: [email protected]

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]
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Selina Morales

Selina 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. 
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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.

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]

Anne Harrison

Anne Harrison (she/her) has been working for children and families for over 20 years. She got her start running a teen employment training program and afterschool programming with Congreso de Latinos Unidos in 2000. From there she went on to led and managed programming for children and youth for the School District of Philadelphia, The Mural Arts Program, and Fleisher Art Memorial before returning to Congreso to run the Children and Youth Division in 2013. Under her leadership at Congreso, she expanded programming, partnership, revenue and pioneered expansions to Norristown School District. 
Anne started consulting with a focus on community engagement, youth development, arts integration and non-profit organizations, working in Philadelphia and nationally. Anne joined the City of Philadelphia, Office of Children and Families in 2018 to support the OST training, technical assistance and fund distribution where she worked until leaving to run The Monkey & The Elephant, a non-profit café dedicated to employing and supporting youth aging out of foster care. At M&E, Anne doubled program participation and tripled grant revenue while developing new revenue lines and increasing individual giving. In 2023, Anne happily returned to consulting with the goal of sharing what she has learned from being a programmer, funder, Executive Director and human to help and support organizations build and sustain in healthy and dynamic ways.

Contact: [email protected]