Barbara Fant

NEXT TEAM MEMBER

Youth Network Advisor

Barbara Fant provides youth network development services to Cause Communications in support of community-driven impact projects. She is a passionate artist, facilitator,
program director, and administrator with over a decade of experience in the nonprofit sector, and is part of Cause’s trusted network of experts. An advocate for the transformative power of the arts, Barbara is the founder of both Bloom Life Arts LLC and Bloom Life Foundation Inc., where she strives to bring light to dark places and healing to the wounded through trauma-informed and healing-centered programming and facilitation.

Barbara’s career path includes a combination of building and bridging the arts with the world of philanthropy and community. As part of her work using the arts as a strategy for
healing, Barbara has developed expertise designing and implementing programs that center youth and the power of their voices.

Through her 15-year career as a performance poet, she has written and performed poetry nationally and internationally and has authored two poetry collections. For over
12 years, she has led healing-informed poetry workshops for both youth and adults who are incarcerated, those in community, adults in recovery, and survivors of human trafficking and domestic violence.

Barbara is certified as a Healing Centered Engagement specialist and holds both an MFA in Poetry and a Master of Theological Studies.