Swearer Center for Public Service

• M.A. Intercultural Relations, Lesley University
• B.A. History and Literature, Harvard College

As Manager for Community-Engaged Learning, Francie supports students in advancing community change through social innovation, organizing, activism, and advocacy. She is responsible for managing programs, initiatives, and partnerships related to community-engaged learning and campus-wide democratic engagement, including the Social Innovation Fellowship, Civic Engagement Fellows and Brown Votes. A special focus of Francie’s role is designing programming that builds community among student cohorts. 

The daughter of Haitian immigrants, Francie has dedicated her work to championing students from equity-deserving communities and creating cultures of belonging in higher education. She earned her Master's degree in Intercultural Relations from Lesley University, where her research examined experiences of belonging and disbelonging among Black and Brown women in elite STEM environments. Her research grew out of her role supporting students from historically excluded populations in STEM at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she worked for seven years. A mother of three and children’s book author, Francie also co-founded the Boston-based social innovation project, Wee The People, which partners with schools, libraries and museums to explore racial justice topics with children K-8 through children’s literature.


“We are dancing and grieving at the edge between the collapsing world we know, and the liberated world we are co-creating.” – adrienne maree brown