Belita Nguluwe
Program Officer, Thriving Communities Grantmaking Program
Belita is a Program Officer for GHHI’s Thriving Communities Grantmaking Program (TCGM). In her role, Belita collectively works with a team dedicated to providing environmental justice grants to historically disinvested communities in EPA’s Mid-Atlantic Region 3. She has extensive experience reviewing grant proposals geared toward environmental justice and awareness initiatives.
Belita is an expert in synergistic, human-centered program development, management, and partnership development. She has co-executed initiatives such as an SDGs 2030 informed community-serving initiative and directed CSR engagements with Goldman Sachs while functioning as a member of several committees such as the American Fisheries Society Hutton Junior Fisheries Program, EvalYouth North America P2P, served as Ecology Co-Chair with the Bronx River Alliance and Institute for NonProfit Practice Alumni.
She is an advisor for WE (Wise Eagles) Lead Sports, Inc., a youth development organization that uses tennis, leadership, and college/career readiness programs to build characters and empower youths to rise above adversity and soar high in all areas of their lives.
In her leisure, she collects Afrofuturistic diasporic folklore on ubuntuisum and innovative adapted, indigenous African spirituality/mysticism in the U.S. and the Caribbean.
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