Daisy Rosales (she/her/hers)

Daisy is the Co-founder and Executive Director of Brio, a nonprofit that advances global mental health and wellbeing through design and collaboration with local organizations. Through partnership, training, and resource creation, Brio co-creates effective initiatives that resonate in local contexts and scale through local systems. Since 2018, Brio's collaborative approach has directly helped more than 130,000 people build psychological flexibility.

Passionate about social impact leaders across the globe, Daisy helps lead the Mental Health Collaboration at Catalyst 2030, and the Foundry community at Acumen Academy. Her work through Brio has been recognized by Yale University, Acumen, Poets and Quants, One Young World, The Stanford Social Innovation Review, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Daisy holds a BA cum laude from Harvard and an MBA from Yale. She is inspired everyday by the power of proximity, the mutuality of compassion, and processes that reflect the dignity of all people.
My passion for social impact has taken me from the rural woods of New Hampshire where I worked in addiction care, to the dusty libraries of my undergrad studies on historic social movements, to artisan workshops in Guatemala where innovative financing strategies empower women leaders. Prior to graduate school, I led marketing at Fuller Youth Institute, a think tank equipping youth workers and parents with research-based resources on adolescent development and wellness. In 2018, I co-founded Brio, a nonprofit that enables access to quality mental health care through design and partnership with community organizations in low-resource contexts. As Brio's executive director, I am inspired every day by the power of proximity, the mutuality of compassion, and processes that reflect the dignity of all people.

My husband Aaron and I recently moved back to California, where we look forward to spending our weekends between redwood forests and coastal bluffs. I enjoy writing, exploring, developing new recipes, and gathering friends around the table.