Geoff Brusca (he/him)

Director of Data Governance and Impact

Geoff got his start in social services working in community-based youth mentoring, and he joined MFS in 2015 after completing a nonprofit management MBA at the University of Portland. He chose that training because he believes nonprofits can be made more effective if they have the best information and tools to fight poverty and promote racial justice.

Geoff's passion is using data to discover which interventions truly help reduce inequality and how those interventions can be implemented in ways that are responsive to the needs and desires of the communities MFS serves. He works to create data gathering and analysis systems that are relevant, informative, and rooted in day-to-day lived experience. He strongly believes that using the best evidence makes for the most effective programs and the most meaningful improvements in people's lives.

An expat Midwesterner, Geoff grew up in St. Louis and is a diehard fan of the St. Louis Cardinals. He received his undergraduate degree at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he had enough of winter. He fled to Portland for the better weather, and now he never wants to leave. His new favorite thing is big, looping urban bike rides that touch all 5 PDX quadrants (with lots of coffee breaks built in). Geoff lives in NE Portland with his wife and two delightful daughters, one of whom described his job as "nonprofit math, graph person or whatever."