LEADERSHIP & STAFF

PUBLIC ALLIES CENTRAL FLORIDA LEADERSHIP

Prita Chhabra, Site Director

Motivated by her passion to give back to her community, Prita Chhabra is a graduate of Public Allies Central Florida’s class of 2013-2014. During her term of service she served as the Program Coordinator of High School High Tech funded by the Able Trust. In this position, Prita exposed students in high school who also live in foster care to different careers in the STEM field. Prita increased the number of students served by 200 percent and was able to expand the program to the tri-county area.

She now works at Embrace Families as a Program Manager for Public Allies Central Florida and enjoys using her talents to empower her Allies to find their voices.

In 2017, Pita was honored with a full scholarship to Herzing University, where she earned her MBA. Originally a recording artist with six music videos under her belt, her latest project “Unstoppable” won Best Music Video at the 2018 Melbourne Independent Film Festival and is dedicated to all the students and young adults she continues to work with. In 2021, Prita was recognized as Orlando Business Journal 40 un 40 award recipient as well as receiving the CREST award from Embrace Families.

Travis Hall, Program Manager

An Orlando Florida Native, Travis Hall grew up loving the people in his community. After joining Key Club International in high school, he exemplified the core values (Leadership, Character Building, Caring, and Inclusiveness) to such a degree that he quickly earned the unofficial officer position of Senior Class Representative.

After serving in both the sales and customer service fields, Travis found his way back to his passion of helping others. Serving as a Public Ally at Embrace Families very own Pathways to Home in both the 2016-2017 and 2018-2019 cohort, he developed and implemented processes and teams that expanded the pre-enrollment services Pathways to Home provides to families in the community. Upon graduating from Public Allies, Travis returned to school and was hired by Pathways to Home to oversee the processes he created. Currently majoring in Business and Organizational Leadership, Travis is excited to facilitate the professional growth of individual Public Allies as the Public Allies Program Manager.