Valery Jean

Valery has worked for and consulted with activist, progressive and human service organizations in the areas of community organizing, management, marketing, program evaluation and funding development for fifteen years. She came on board as FUREE's development director in 2006 and previously worked with the Student Liberation Action Movement (SLAM) at Hunter College, Neighborhood Youth & Family Services in the Bronx and The Brotherhood-Sister Sol in Harlem. Valery attended Hunter College focusing in Psychology and Africana, Puerto Rican & Latin Studies to study the devastating effects of racism, sexism, classism and misogyny on women of color. She is a Brooklyn born daughter of Haitian and Dominican working class immigrants and the mother of two children.