Bruni Pizarro, executive director of Junta for Progressive Action. Photos by Tony Fiorini.
The staff of Junta for Progressive Action
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By Karen Guzman
In March 2020, Bruni Pizarro watched from her office at New Haven’s Junta for Progressive Action as the world began locking down.
“Everything was unfolding in China, and then in Italy, and I knew it was just a matter of time until it was here,” says Pizarro, executive director of Junta, New Haven’s oldest Latinx-led social services agency, located in the Fair Haven neighborhood.
Pizarro, a 2019 graduate of the Yale School of the Environment, was new on the job and in the midst of working with the City of New Haven to resettle evacuees from recent earthquakes in Puerto Rico. As the COVID-19 pandemic spread, Pizarro knew her organization had to pivot, and quickly.
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Since 2018, Vida Plena has been empowering women in the Dominican Republic to break the cycle of poverty
Noelia Lombardo Gava, Editor-in-Chief
It is yet another rainy and cold day in Boston and Yung Winata, Ale Eguren and I (MBAs ’22) open our laptops to connect to Zoom. On the screen, Josh Porter smiles while updating us on the sunny, warm weather of the Dominican Republic. Since September last year, we have been having these monthly meetings as part of a Consulting For Impact Club pro-bono consulting project.
Porter started Vida Plena in 2018 as a ministry of 2nd Mile Missions, with a clear mission empowering women in the Dominican Republic to break the cycle of poverty. They do so by “providing artisan trade training, micro-finance programs, adult literacy classes, and dignified employment in a safe, secure, and Christ-centered environment.” Since then, 101 women have completed classes, 19 micro-loans have been given, 25 women have been employed and 11,124