Community Coalition
Briana Walker is a dedicated professional with experience in program coordination and faculty services, currently serving as a Program Coordinator at Community Coalition since April 2023. Previously, Briana worked as a Faculty Services Specialist at UMass Global, managing faculty assignments and overseeing course scheduling. Experience also includes serving as a Docent at Chapman University, where responsibilities involved assisting with administrative tasks, as well as internships in social media marketing and organizing for the Black Lives Matter movement. Briana's academic credentials include a Bachelor of Arts in Peace Studies from Chapman University, completed in 2022.
Community Coalition
Our Mission: To help transform the social and economic conditions in South LA that foster addiction, crime, violence and poverty by building a community institution that involves thousands in creating, influencing and changing public policy. Who We Are: Community leaders, including U.S. Congresswoman Karen Bass, founded Community Coalition as a non-profit organization in 1990 in response to the 1980's crack cocaine epidemic that devastated South LA. The goal was to provide preventative community-centered solutions to the drug problem. Community Coalition works with African American and Latino residents to build a prosperous and healthy South LA with safe neighborhoods, quality schools, a strong social safety net and positive economic development in order to reduce crime, poverty and substance abuse in our community.