Larissa is a strategy, marketing, growth, and partnerships professional and consultant with experience facilitating marketing and social media campaigns, consulting/advising for entrepreneurs and early stage ventures from ideation through early stage growth, writing grants and proposals, data analysis, front-end web development, writing for and editing digital/print publications, fundraising, and business development. Currently, she works at Venture for America – a nonprofit entrepreneurship Fellowship for recent college graduates – as their Senior Partnerships Associate, and tackles corporate partnerships development as well as programming / execution for a variety of activities related to their Fellow-founded companies.
Prior to Venture for America, Larissa was the Social Responsibility Coordinator at White & Case LLP, a global law firm. She attended Yale University, and graduated in 2014 with a BA in Political Science and a concentration in Latin American & Caribbean Studies. She was born in Port-au-Prince, raised in Miami and New Jersey, and believes strongly in the ability and mission of the NAAHP.