Anthonine Pierre
A Brooklyn‑born Haitian facilitator, patternist, and storyteller, Anthonine guides organizations in building sustainable structures for realizing their visions. As Nova Sustainability Studio’s Principal + Lead Facilitator, she organizes custom teams of facilitators, researchers and designers to bring each project to life.
Since 2019, Anthonine has been researching the sustainability of the nonprofit social justice movement. She advanced this work as a Community Fellow (2023‑2025) in the Mellon Initiative for Inclusive Faculty Excellence at The New School.
Anthonine served as the Executive Director of the Brooklyn Movement Center (BMC) for three years, concluding nearly fourteen years of overall service to the organization in 2025. From her early days as Lead Community Organizer to her tenure as Executive Director, she acted as a frontline organizer, researcher, policy advocate, spokesperson, and social justice movement leader.
Anthonine has also held roles at the Advocacy Institute, the Manhattan Borough President’s Office, the Children’s Defense Fund-NY, and the Prospect Park Alliance. A self-proclaimed “governance girlie,” Anthonine also sits on the boards of the Strozzi Institute, the Center for Anti-Violence Education and Recess.
When she’s not trying to move dope people, you can find her taking slow walks in her native Flatbush and photographing the sun.