Noa Isabella
As the Office and Operations Manager, Noa creates a warm and welcoming environment at Outright's space so that everyone who comes through our doors can experience a sense of community and belonging. Noa brings tremendous organizational skills, energy, and creativity to their role supporting program staff with events, trainings, donor visits, day to day operations and finance, and creating responsive systems to support the work and the people who make it happen.
After graduating from Hampshire College with a BA in Social Justice Education, Noa went on to receive certifications in Trauma-Informed Teaching Practices from the Stockton Rush Barthol Foundation, and Intentional Peer Support from the IPS Institute.
They have learned and grown as a system-maker and organizer through their work with young people, which has included directing a city-wide university afterschool program, organizing grassroots Black liberation schools, and summers as a queer joy and art-ist champion at Education Justice Coalition’s Camp Free to Be. Many remember Noa from their prior roles at Outright, overseeing social and support groups, directing Camp Outright (2018-19), and growing our thriving Vermont GSA Network. Noa loves to teach and learn, and has offered trauma-informed social justice-based executive coaching and sustainable system creation to community organizers, teachers, executive directors, and LGBTQIA+ youth and their families.
Noa is a summer camp kid through and through: they play a fab campfire song and can even whittle a spoon! When they’re not making journals from old books or organizing family potlucks, you can find them eating a creemee in their car, kayaking with a book, or caring for their chihuahua, Spoon.
