Meet Our Team

Get to know the dedicated individuals behind our mission, including our founder, co-founder, and director.

Janine Brignola Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Frederick Brignola Director of Youth Strategy & Partnership

What is the origin story?

The Brignola Foundation began with a moment of clarity in 2019, when our founder took her son to an animal sanctuary in Georgia and envisioned a model for community-driven change. Officially established in 2023, we are building trauma-informed, disability-led sanctuary ecosystems that restore land, uplift youth, and empower women to lead transformation from within their own communities. Our mission is to end generational harm and rebuild human connection through care, authorship, and systemic reform.

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What is the legacy language?

We appreciate any support through donations or volunteering to further our mission.

Legacy language is the intentional use of words, phrases, and frameworks that preserve the origin, authorship, and emotional clarity of a movement, model, or mission. The language that refuses to dilute lived expertise, that threads trade work, fieldwork, and authorship into one coherent arc. It’s how The Brignola Foundation speaks not just about what it does—but why it exists.

Legacy language protects your intellectual property, honors your emotional lineage, and ensures that every initiative—from The Puppetized Framework™ to Holistic Housing—is not just described, but declared. It’s the difference between saying “we help communities” and saying “we build sanctuary ecosystems led by women native to each region, where care becomes infrastructure and mentorship becomes legacy.”

It’s language that cannot be co-opted because it’s rooted in lived truth. It’s how you name what others erase—and how you ensure your work is remembered, replicated, and respected on your terms.

The Brignola Foundation was founded by Janine Brignola, a systems architect with over 15 years of global experience in community-based research and structural reform. Our mission is to build trauma-informed, disability-led sanctuary ecosystems that restore land, uplift youth, and empower women to lead change within their own communities. Through licensed frameworks, mentorship pipelines, and holistic housing models, we aim to end generational harm and rebuild human connection.

Janine Brignola is a globally immersed systems architect, lived experience researcher, and the creator of The Puppetized Framework™—a proprietary methodology for exposing and interrupting systemic control, performative inclusion, and the erasure of lived authorship. With over 20 years of experience, she has conducted immersive fieldwork across six continents, integrating emotional clarity, relational integrity, and pattern fluency into frameworks for institutional transformation.

Her expertise spans ADA compliance, civil rights law, intellectual property protection, and ethical systems design. She has testified before Congress, served on national HIV equity boards, and contributed to public health research, including genetic testing and trauma-informed curriculum development. Her work is licensed, copyright-protected, and designed for replication across AI ethics, public health, education, and equity infrastructure.

Janine’s journey includes trade work in cosmetology and barbering, AmeriCorps service, and strategic consulting across nonprofit, academic, and advocacy sectors. She is also the author of derivative concepts such as Authentic Intelligence™, Outcome Fidelity™, and The Puppetized Collective™—each part of a larger ecosystem of structural repair and authorship protection.

Her leadership is not symbolic—it is structural. Every initiative she builds is designed to transfer power, protect lived expertise, and rewrite the systems that harm.