GREEN & GROWING SPEAKER Working to Strengthen Amani Audra Brennan works with the Northwestern Mutual Foundation to provide support for resident-led change
Dominican Center believes in the power of collaboration, and we could not do the work we do in Amani without the support of Northwestern Mutual and we could not celebrate this work without their generous Presenting Sponsorship for this event. On behalf of the organization, Au- dra Brennan will present today’s awards. Brennan has nearly 25 years of non-profit and public policy experience at the fed- eral, state and local level. Audra currently serves as the Senior Director of Strategic Philanthropy for the Northwestern Mutual Foundation, which provides more than $20 million annually to strengthen com- munities and improve outcomes for kids with cancer and their families. In that role, she oversees the team responsible for grantmaking and strategic partnerships across the Foundation’s priority areas as
well as employee and field community engagement. Brennan’s prior experience includes education, health and tax equi- ty policy roles at the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, State of Wisconsin, City of Milwaukee Public Schools and the Con- gressional Budget Office in Washington D.C. Audra Brennan grew up Peoria, Illinois, the daughter of two public school educa- tors. She graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in Mathematics and Economics. She was selected as a Harris Fellow at the University of Chicago and earned a master’s degree in public policy from University of Chicago’s Har- ris School of Public Policy in 1999. Audra Brennan lives with her husband Joel and two teenage children in the Brewers Hill neighborhood.
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