Meet The Team

Brianna Cummings

Coordinator

Brianna joined Burness as a coordinator in October 2021. She provides communication support to several health and nonprofit organizations including Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Brianna earned her BA in International and Global Studies from Brandeis University. She also received a minor in English. During college, Brianna studied abroad at the University of Edinburgh for a semester.

She previously worked at GovLoop, an online social network for people in and around government, where she was an Editorial Events Fellow. She also has experience as a Research Assistant at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, where she investigated wrongful convictions in the Boston area.

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Letting Go of the Fear of Racism

I’ve won academic awards, traveled abroad, graduated from college and lived in my own apartment. If I had let fear of racism hold me back, I would not have achieved these accomplishments. I refuse to dress and act a certain way to be perceived as “acceptable” or “safe” and I am not going to hold myself back from opportunities out of fear of impending racism.

Brianna Cummings

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Letting Go of the Fear of Racism