Brittany Hotaling, MA, CFRE, is a fundraising strategist, educator, and pracademic with more than a decade of nonprofit leadership experience. She serves as faculty with The Fund Raising School and is a graduate of the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Her work focuses on rural inclusion, philanthropic systems design, and the role of fundraising infrastructure in advancing organizational values. Drawing from lived experience growing up hidden homeless in rural Appalachia, alongside academic research and frontline practice, she challenges leaders to examine how governance, capital allocation, and participation models shape who philanthropy includes and who it leaves behind.
