Brianna Puckett elected Board President of Constructing Our Future

Written By Michelle Daniel

We are proud to announce that Brianna Puckett has been named the new Board President of Constructing Our Future (COF)!

Brianna is a strategic healthcare consultant and maternal health equity advocate with deep expertise in value-based care, insurance navigation, and outreach operations. She brings a powerful blend of executive insight and relational care to her work, consistently driving measurable impact across underserved communities.

As a dedicated board member and former Director of Operations at COF, Brianna has already played a vital role in advancing our mission. Her leadership is rooted in data, compassion, and a commitment to dismantling systems that have historically excluded vulnerable populations—while expanding access to opportunity for the women we serve.

We are excited to step into this next chapter under her leadership and vision. Please join us in congratulating Brianna on this well-deserved role!

Michelle Daniel

Michelle Daniel Jones, ABD is a sixth-year doctoral student in the American Studies New York University. Michelle’s dissertation focuses on creative liberation strategies of incarcerated people. As an organizer, collaborator, and subject matter expert she creates opportunities to speak truth to power and serves in the development and operation of taskforces and initiatives to reduce harm and end mass incarceration. She has joined Second Chance Educational Alliance as a Senior Research Consultant and the Women Transcending Oral History Project as a co-researcher. and serves on the boards of Worth Rises and Correctional Association of New York and advisory boards of the Jamii Sisterhood, the Survivor’s Justice Project, The Education Trust, Urban Institute and ITHAKA's Higher Ed in Prison Project.

She is Executive Director of Constructing Our Future, a housing organization created by incarcerated women in Indiana. Michelle author and co-editor of the award-winning Who Would Believe a Prisoner: Indiana Women’s Carceral Institutions, 1848-1920, published by the New Press. As an artist, Michelle finds ways to funnel her research into theater, dance and photography. Her co-authored play, “The Duchess of Stringtown” was produced in 2017 in Indianapolis and New York and her artist installation about weaponized stigma, “Point of Triangulation,” ran in New York 2019 and 2020, Philadelphia 2021 with a public mural. “Makes Me Wanna Holla: Art, Death and Imprisonment, explores COVID-19 in prisons, ran in Chicago 2023 and producer on the film, Degrees of Freedom that premiered in 2024.

https://www.michelledanieljones@gmail.com
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