Bryn VanAlstyne
Upon graduating high school, Bryn spent two years as an AmeriCorps member for City Year Boston. Continuing her work as a change agent in Massachusetts, she worked for the City of Cambridge, spending nine years in various roles in and eventually running one of the five Cambridge Youth Centers. Bryn returned to City Year Boston as Director of School and Community Partnerships, ensuring the fidelity of the service model implementation, and creating sustainable partnerships with the Boston Public School District, where she oversaw more than two hundred young adult volunteers and staff members. Before leaving Boston, she worked as a Campus Director for Citizen Schools, a non-profit that promotes STEM learning for middle school students.
Once in the Bay Area, Bryn served as the Director of Larkin Street Academy where she oversaw the organization’s art, education, employment, and youth leadership programs which include, job readiness, individual employment coaching, courses to career pathway’s, GED classes, college readiness, college scholarships, post-secondary counseling, and youth advocacy work. She left Larkin Street for several years to expand her professional experience at the nonprofit Summer Search Bay Area in the role of Regional Program Director and eventually served as the Co- interim Executive Director role before returning to Larkin Street in her role as Chief Operating Officer.
Bryn received her undergraduate degree in American Studies from the University of Massachusetts Boston and a graduate degree in public policy from Tufts University. She has committed her life’s work to creating change for the greater good and continuously looks to influence positive social change on an increasingly larger scale.