Brittney Lee

About Brittney Lee

Brittney Lee experienced over seventeen foster placements in the span of just over seventeen years of her childhood. Their current aspiration is to utilize their growth and knowledge gained from resilience, community involvement and employment opportunities with youth who have experienced foster care and child welfare practitioners. Brittney consistently involve themselves in community conversations on child welfare and engages in opportunities where they can increase their understanding on how to best leverage their experience and meet their goals. One of those major goals is to become more educated on the subject of racial disproportionality in the child welfare system. Brittney hopes to work to come up with solutions to counteract racial inequality and institutionalized, structural racism that affects all youth involved in child welfare systems today. Having grown up living with dozens of other children in the system from various backgrounds and at all kinds of emotional, mental and spiritual levels, Brittney has unconditional compassion in their heart to give back to the youth in the communities similar to those in which they grew up in as well as on a national and global level. They wish to be a role model and source of support to youth experiencing foster care; to help them navigate all the ups and downs; to be the someone that Brittney needed when they were younger.\" I especially want to be able to advocate for all foster youth and give special focus to foster youth who have no one else willing to go above and beyond to speak for them and their rights. I am seeking career opportunities to advocate for, serve and empower primarily foster youth, but for youth of color, youth experiencing and/or at risk of homelessness, undocumented youth and/or LGBTQIA2-S+ youth as well as many other vulnerable populations. Through a blend of my ancestry, lived experience, formal & informal education and more, I excel in policy writing & public speaking, relationship building, youth and family advocacy & program development, community leadership and trauma-informed care and more. I am seeking opportunities to coordinate youth programs that are social-emotional learning and trauma-sensitive based. I enjoy public speaking, being on panels, and I am always interested in intro-level law and policy writing positions, research or workshop building, grant writing, policy writing and youth support positions. Lastly, I am passionate about both conference, campaign and organizational building.

Experience

1. Dei Facilitator

   Amara

   Sep 2022 — Present

Education

• Tacoma Community College

  Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS, SOCIAL SCIENCES

  2015 — 2017

• Tacoma Community College

  High School Diploma

  2012 — 2014

• University of Washington Tacoma

  Bachelors in Ethnic Gender and Labor Studies, Alumni

  2018 — 2021