Jennie Brotman
Board Member
Jennie Brotman is a consultant working at the intersection of education and mental health to support organizations dedicated to youth and family wellbeing. She partners with nonprofits, foundations, and programs in areas such as strategic thought partnership, program design, learning & improvement, and professional writing.
Jennie has been working to promote quality and equity in the education field for over twenty years, as a nonprofit programmatic leader, professor, researcher, curriculum writer, coach, professional learning facilitator, and middle school teacher. She has designed and scaled programs that have impacted thousands of students and teachers (as Director of Service Design at Teaching Matters), secured multi-million dollar grants to bring creative, equity-centered initiatives to life (from institutions such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), and contributed to the learning of the field through published academic research (based on a PhD in Science Education from Teachers College, Columbia University). She is also a passionate advocate for mental health agendas and a peer support for struggling parents with Other Parents Like Me.
Jennie comes to Wayfinders as both a professional and a parent with firsthand experience of how nature connection, paired with social-emotional learning and community building, can powerfully support the mental health and identity development of young people.