About Brain Injury Services, Inc.
leader and consultant in non-profit and for-profit enterprises, she is skilled and highly valued for her innovative initiatives that resulted in exceptional team engagement, profits, and savings. First and foremost, as a non-profit leader, I understood the importance of two things: maintaining communication and transparency with all stakeholders and, valuing partnerships beyond transactions.
Over her career, Denise has raised more than $70 million dollars, led over 100 staff, mentored many, and rallied thousands of volunteers to advocate organizational missions.
Her early body of work includes creating and directing some of the most controversial and talked about campaigns for HIV/AIDS awareness and the Dont Try. We Comply tobacco ID retail campaign. She directed national advocacy and pharmaceutical campaigns targeting diabetes and insulin awareness, low dose birth control, and celebrity-endorsed hormone replacement therapies. She also created one of the first needle exchange programs in the District of Columbia, Prevention Works, that led to her national and international recognition in HIV/AIDS prevention and lectures in Europe and Russia with the Albert Schweitzer Institute, USAID, and the Clinton Administrations Office of HIV/AIDS Prevention.