Brita Belli

Brita Belli is an award-winning writer leading communications around diversity and inclusion for the Yale School of Medicine. She previously covered alumni and health sciences for the Yale University Office of Public Affairs and managed communications for the Yale Office of Public Affairs and the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale. She has experience covering healthcare, technology, and innovation, and wrote The Autism Puzzle: Connecting the Dots Between Environmental Toxins and Rising Autism Rates (Seven Stories Press) as well as a 50-page digital playbook "Elevating Women in Entrepreneurship" sponsored by JP Morgan Chase and InBIA. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, National Geographic, the Union of Concerned Scientists, Environmental Health News, MSN.com, and Alternet.com, and she has led marketing efforts for several large-scale events and initiatives at Yale, including the Yale Innovation Summit, Startup Yale, and the year-long celebration of women at Yale known as 50WomenAtYale150. She is also an experienced copywriter, and has written press releases, thought leadership pieces, SEO content, and articles for companies including GE, OptimumRx, Lemon Perfect and 2U. She also wrote a series of blogs for Revel, a startup for women 50 and over.