Farra Trompeter (she/her) is Co-Director and Worker-Owner at Big Duck, a worker-owned cooperative that builds strong brands, campaigns, and teams for nonprofit organizations, foundations, and government agencies. As Co-Director, Farra helps make sure that Big Duck is healthy and thriving. In addition to her Co-Director role, Farra directs Big Duck’s marketing and business development efforts, seeking to build relationships with nonprofits who want to use communications to achieve their mission. Farra has led dozens of organizations through major brand overhauls, fundraising campaigns, and much more since joining Big Duck in 2007. She’s a frequent speaker around the country, training nonprofit staff and board members on branding, communications planning, and engaging donors at all giving levels. Farra previously served as a board member for NTEN, an organization working to create a world where nonprofits fulfill their missions through the skillful and racially equitable use of technology, and for the NYC Anti-Violence Project, an organization that mobilizes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and HIV-affected communities and allies to end all forms of violence through organizing and education, and supports survivors through counseling and advocacy. Farra is also an adjunct associate professor of public service at NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and adjunct lecturer at Baruch College's Marxe School of Public and International Affairs. She received her B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Interdisciplinary Studies in Health Education from American University and holds a Master of Science in Nonprofit Management from The New School.