About
A young organization, described accurately.
FRI is early-stage. Its first sessions are being scheduled, its advisory board has one confirmed member, and it has not yet received grant funding. Everything on this site is written to be defensible to a school administrator or a grant reviewer who checks.
Founder
Brooke Edelstein
Founder & Executive Director
Class of 2027
Brooke founded FRI as a rising senior. Before this she worked with the Brent Shapiro Foundation and Stand Up To Cancer, doing cold outreach, donor tracking, and prevention and screening outreach — the unglamorous operational side of health nonprofits rather than the visible side.
She is studying toward international relations, with related interests in political science and entrepreneurship. Three years of Spanish coursework put her close enough to fluent to be directly useful on the Spanish-language curriculum and community outreach work, rather than treating bilingual delivery as someone else's task.
The throughline across her work is a preference for intervening upstream — the point in a system furthest from the emergency, where a single decision changes the most outcomes. FRI is that instinct applied to fentanyl: naloxone in a student's backpack today, and an argument about precursor chemicals and trade policy in the same breath.
Advisory Board (forming)
Confirmed members
Dr. Neeraj Wadhwa
Health Educator, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
Seats in formation
These seats are being built out. They are listed by role because no one has been confirmed to them — no names appear here until they have agreed to serve.
Seat in formation
Public health faculty
Epidemiology; conversation in progress
Seat in formation
Spanish-language & community health
Promotora network liaison
Seat in formation
Drug policy / legal
Harm reduction legal expertise; outreach in progress
Seat in formation
Health nonprofit (BSF / SU2C-affiliated)
Seat in formation
Status
What is and isn't true yet
- School partnerships: none formally signed. Pilot conversations are underway; schools will be named here only once an agreement exists.
- Funding: no grant has been awarded. Applications in progress are not listed as funding.
- Program results: no sessions have been delivered yet, so no student, session, or outcome numbers appear on this site.
