Brooke Richie-Babbage, Esq. 

Director of Network Initiatives, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation

Brooke Richie-Babbage is the Director of Network Initiatives at the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation.  Brooke has spent the past 20 years working as a nonprofit leader, social entrepreneur, and lawyer at social change organizations throughout the country.  She has founded and led multiple successful organizations and initiatives, including the Resilience Advocacy Project (RAP), where she served as Executive Director for 12 years.  Prior to founding RAP, Brooke worked as a Skadden Fellow, and then as a staff attorney and policy director in the areas of public benefits law and child care policy at the National Center for Law and Economic Justice. Brooke received her BA from Yale, and her JD and MPP from Harvard.