Karley Ausiello

Karley Ausiello is the Chief Community Impact Officer for United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley. She has been at United Way for 18 years and has worked in Community Impact and Volunteer Engagement. As the CCIO, Karley sets strategic impact direction to achieve United Way’s mission is to advance an economically just region where access to financial opportunity is universal and prosperity is shared across race and ethnicity. In leading Volunteer Engagement, Karley mobilized thousands of people to make a difference in their local communities through short-term and long-term volunteerism. Focused on driving long-term systemic solutions that communities can embrace, Karley leads grantmaking and programmatic efforts in the following areas: (1) quality, affordable childcare and out-of-school time care, (2) educational and career pathways for youth and young adults, (3) safe and stable housing, and (4) wealth building and financial inclusion. Before coming to United Way, Karley worked for 10 years at Massachusetts Campus Compact where she first served as an AmeriCorps*VISTA and then as their Associate Director, where she led mentoring, literacy and civic engagement initiatives and trained college faculty and students on ways to bring community problem solving into the classroom. She has a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University, a M.P.A. from Harvard University, and a M.S. in Education Administration from Syracuse University. Karley is married to artist, Matt Brackett, has two daughters, and lives in Jamaica Plain, MA.