Brooklyn Community Services CEO and leadership

Alba Rodriguez is currently the Chief Strategy and Data Officer of Brooklyn Community Services. As CSDO, she is responsible for overseeing data, external relations, fundraising and IT, and for leading the development and execution of organizational strategy. Prior to joining BCS, Alba served as VP of the Posse Institute at The Posse Foundation, one of the largest youth leadership development and college success organizations in the country. Alba has also managed projects for Firefly Education, LLC; led major youth-assessment initiatives serving low-income students for the College Success Foundation; and provided strategic consulting for elite colleges and other organizations on their diversity programs. Alba holds a B.S. in philosophy and biopsychology from Tufts University and an Ed.M. in human development and psychology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Angela currently serves as the Chief Program Officer, overseeing their 42 programs across the borough. She is a New York state licensed LMSW who completed her graduate MSW at New York University and her Social Work undergraduate studies at University of California, Berkeley. She has worked both in the US and overseas as a social worker, mainly in the areas of youth development, chemical dependency, homelessness and disaster recovery. Prior to becoming the Chief Program Officer, she served as their Deputy Chief Operating Officer and Division Director of Youth Services, starting with BCS in 2013.

In 2018, Janelle Farris became the Executive Director and President of Brooklyn Community Services. The former Chief Operating Officer, Janelle is a long-time and experienced non-profit leader with a passion for solving systemic inequity in Brooklyn at its root cause. Former roles include the Associate Director of Operations at the Pratt Center for Community Development, as well as director of the largest single-occupancy supportive housing facility in the country, The Times Square at Common Ground. Janelle holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Spelman College and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Harvard University.

Luke brings more than twenty years of talent leadership experience with social service organizations supporting underserved New Yorkers in need of housing, jobs, family support, education, economic opportunity, health care and maintenance, recreation and a variety of life changing services. He has experience in talent development; organizational design; compensation; benefits; employee relations; recruitment and retention; compliance and employment law; HRIS and information systems; diversity, equity and inclusion; and nearly every aspect of human resources. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University at Albany SUNY and a Masters of Information and Library Science from Pratt Institute as well as SHRM-CP and SPHR certification. Luke knows he is fortunate to be able to support hard working (and almost always underpaid and underrecognized) human services non-profit professionals at BCS.