Brandy Hudson (she/they)

Advisory Board Member

Brandy Hudson is an advocate, strategist, and national consultant working at the intersection of child and family well-being, philanthropy, and systems transformation. She is known for bridging lived expertise with professional practice to advance solutions that shift power, strengthen communities, and support families in defining their own futures. 

Over the past two decades, Brandy has worked across philanthropy, nonprofit leadership, public systems, and national consulting to strengthen family leadership and improve outcomes for children, youth, and caregivers. Having spent years pursuing reform within child welfare systems, Brandy ultimately came to understand that transformation requires more than improving existing structures. It requires dismantling systems rooted in surveillance, punishment, and family separation, and building community-based alternatives grounded in care, mutual aid, and collective power.

Brandy currently serves as Program Director at the Weissberg Foundation, where she supports efforts to redistribute resources and build the organizing, economic, political, and narrative power of Communities of Color so they can shape the futures they envision for themselves.  She also provides national consultation to organizations and jurisdictions seeking to move beyond traditional approaches to child welfare by centering the leadership and expertise of directly impacted children, youth, parents, and caregivers.

Brandy's work is grounded in the belief that the systems we inherit are not inevitable. As a self-described"reformed reformist," Brandy is committed to advancing abolitionist visions that reimagine safety through connection, prevention, mutual support, and community power rather than coercion and family separation.