As Program and Grants Officer, Brandi Lasch advances grantmaking across Environment Now’s water, climate, and environmental rights programs and oversees grants infrastructure.

Brandi brings more than a decade of philanthropic experience to this role. Previously, she was a Program Officer at the Heising-Simons Foundation, where she led an organizational resilience and capacity building portfolio and partnered with grantees across all of the foundation’s program areas, including climate and clean energy, science, education, human rights, and journalism. She also directed emergency and disaster relief grantmaking, including wildfire response. 

Earlier in her career, Brandi served as an Associate Director of Program Services at the March of Dimes, where she managed grantmaking and community health programs, and has also worked as an independent consultant. 

Brandi holds a B.A. in Psychology from New College of Florida.