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FINDING PURPOSE
THROUGH PEACEPLAYERS:
BRITTANEE’S JOURNEY
FROM LOCAL TO GLOBAL
ROLE MODEL
BRITTANEE OAKLEY | PEACEPLAYERS LOS ANGELES
Brittanee Oakley is all about community. It was a community of family, coaches and teachers
who helped her journey into leadership. Rising up through difficult times, Brittanee now gets
to provide that same sense of community for the next generation of youth, as a coach, physical
education teacher and behavioral interventionist at PeacePlayers LA’ partner school, Inner
City Education Foundation (ICEF) View Park,. “It took a village for me, and so I was raised on
that, preached on that and just being able to be a part of a village that actually cares and with
folks that actually look like me.”
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