Aimee Bravo-Noffsinger - Founding Member & Theatrical Initiatives Advisor

One of the project’s first volunteers, Aimee Bravo-Noffsinger believes that a vibrant creative sensibility is as crucial to social justice movements as it is to the arts.

As a founding member of The Voices and Faces Project with a “step up wherever I’m needed” mindset, Aimee has supported The Voices and Faces Project in a variety of ways and places over the years. A rare creative person who is also a detail-oriented administrator, Aimee has helped with organizational outreach, fundraising, grant development, digital design and event planning, among other things. Put another way: Aimee always does what it takes to help our organization excel and grow.

Currently, Aimee serves as the Theatrical Initiatives Advisor to the project, helping to drive our newest Voices and Faces Project effort, Louder Together, a crowdsourced poetry and performance series. This community-driven, creatively compelling poetry project – inspired by an exercise featured in our Stories We Tell Writing Workshop, seeks to address a range of human rights and social justice issues through the power of poetry and spoken word. In that role, Aimee helps us reach new audiences by supporting the creation of poetry performances that leverage media in unexpected ways and places.

Aimee also continues to play a key role in The Voices and Faces Project’s Ugly Truth anti-trafficking campaign, an award-winning, multi-media advertising effort that has made over 600 million audience impressions in cities across the United States, contributing to changed state and federal law.

A passionate advocate who cares deeply about individual and global wellness, Aimee is also the co-founder of Kids Heart Yoga, which provides programming for kids of all ages in the Chicago area, helping them thrive through yoga, mindfulness, and the arts. She brings that focus on wellness to all she does at Voices and Faces, contributing to an organizational culture that is inclusive, respectful and healing.

“At The Voices and Faces Project,” Aimee says, “we bring artists, writers, storytellers and activists together with those with world-class communications experience. Getting these players in one room can be magical. The ideas that emerge through that type of collaboration inspire me.”

Aimee will serve as the project coordinator for the find the right words initiative.