Brittany Stuart serves as the Implementation and Systems Building Program Specialist at the Help Me Grow National Center. Prior to joining the HMG National Center, Brittany worked at the YWCA of Western Massachusetts as a Violence Prevention Project Coordinator. She established their Youth Violence Prevention program called the H.E.R.E Project (Healthy, Empowering Relationships and Education) providing group facilitation on human trafficking prevention, healthy relationships and bystander intervention to 12–18-year-olds in Springfield, MA.

Brittany was a ‘Getting to Zero MA’ Coalition and Fenway Health – Activist Academy fellow formerly working on the Sexual Health Education Team. She recently participated the APHA and CDC’s Champion for Change Cohort focusing on Empower to Educate: A Sustainable Approach to Addressing ACEs, Overdose, and Suicide Through Trainer Development. 

She holds a Master’s in Public Health with a concentration in Community Health Sciences from Tulane University, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Communications focused on Intercultural Communications from Westfield State University.