Brittany Gleixner-Hayat

Brittany joined CPPF in September 2008. A New York native, she earned her BA degree in Political Science and French from Hunter College as a member of the Thomas Hunter Honors Program. Prior to joining CPPF Brittany worked as a Fellowships Assistant at the SSRC. In 2006 she was awarded a Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship to conduct six months of research in rural India on girl child rights initiatives under the auspices of the M. Venkatarangaiya Foundation, a NGO that fights child labour by advocating for universalisation of education. In 2005, Brittany was the co-coordinator for an international conference on conflict prevention at the United Nations.