As part of a multi-year succession planning process, the Democracy at Work Institute announced the promotion of Senior Managing Director Vanessa Bransburg to co-executive director of operations and programs. Bransburg will lead the organization alongside DAWI founding Executive Director Melissa Hoover, who will become co-executive director for partnerships and growth until transitioning to a new role in 2023.
"As DAWI celebrates ten years of powerful work, we are consciously undertaking a shift in leadership that will support our growth into the next phase," said Hoover. "Vanessa has been essential to building DAWI from almost the beginning, and I can think of no better steward for our organizational culture and values."
Bransburg has 15 years of cooperative development experience and has spent her time at DAWI developing innovative solutions for excluded workers and shaping the organization's human-centered, high output workplace.
She has developed nationally-recognized models for worker cooperative growth throughout her career, including building Center for Family Life's Cooperative Development Program, helping establish New York City's Worker Cooperative Development Initiative, and innovating to meet the needs of excluded workers through DAWI's Rapid Response Cooperative model. Bransburg joined DAWI in 2015 to lead the organization's Immigrant Cooperative Initiative.
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