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Brian Biery
Director of Community Organizing

Brian plans and coordinates Flintridge Center’s community and collaborative projects. His responsibilities include developing and overseeing the operations of the Pasadena/Altadena Apprenticeship Preparation Program, which prepares hard-to-employ men and women for apprenticeships with the construction trade unions. Brian also contributes his leadership and team building skills to the Vision 20/20 Initiative which is focused on improving community safety through prevention, intervention and outreach programs.  He is involved in the development and implementation of two of these programs: the Pasadena/Altadena Reintegration Council and the Community Violence Intervention-Prevention Institute.

Before joining Flintridge in 2007, he managed the City of Pasadena’s Neighborhood Connections office for more than 11 years where he planned and administered neighborhood programs, services, activities and networks. He also organized numerous grassroots neighborhood associations and conducted community trainings to develop leadership abilities and organizational structure. Brian was a Peace Corps Youth Development volunteer in Guatemala and later taught Spanish to middle and high school students in the South Pasadena Unified School District. He graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara with a B.A. in Communications and holds an M.A. in Spanish from Middlebury College in Vermont.

Brian received the Jim Stivers Award for Lifetime Community Service from the Pasadena Police Department (PPD) in May 2011. The award recognizes demonstrated enduring service to the community, especially in matters dedicated to advancing public safety, and for exemplifying the PPD’s highest standards of excellence, innovation and integrity.

Photo: Orly Olivier