Aimee Bravo

A founding member of The Voices and Faces Project with a “step up wherever I’m needed” mindset, Aimee has been a part of our organization since its earliest days. Our very first volunteer – who went on to become a trusted board and staff member – Aimee is that rare creative person who is also a detail-oriented manager. Over the years she has been involved in virtually every aspect of our work, including community outreach, creative program development, public performances, digital design, marketing, and overall program direction. Put another way, Aimee does what it takes to turn innovative ideas into sustainable, community-relevant programs.

Aimee, who has a theatrical background, played a critical role in the development of two key Center for Story & Witness creative initiatives. She collaborated with our organizational co-founders to launch Louder Together, a crowdsourced poetry and performance series, and also helped lead the ensemble of world-class theatrical talent that adapted Anne K. Ream’s Lived Through This for the theater. The co-founder of Kids HeArt Yoga, which provides mindfulness programming to Chicago-area kids, Aimee has a passion for creating a truly inclusive, wellness-focused arts space.

“As a Puerto Rican woman, it’s critical to me that our programming at Center for Story & Witness is trauma-informed, creatively ambitious, and accessible, in the broadest sense of that word,” Aimee says. “As Managing Director, this is the lens through which I view all of our programming.”