Volunteer Brittany Orosco Embraces New Roles in Girl Scouting
In 2011, on the request of her kindergartner, Brittany Orosco signed the forms that would reshape the next 15 years of her life. The moment she went to the first meeting, she realized she wanted to help plan activities and soon became the co-leader of her daughter Brianna’s Daisy/Brownie troop. It didn’t take long before her older daughter, Isabella, who tagged along to a few meetings, saw how much fun and camaraderie the girls had working with a sister Junior troop and decided to join as well. Eventually Brittany moved into the role of troop leader for a multi-level troop and continued to learn more about the various ways she could be of service to the movement. “I had no idea how intricate the Girl Scout network was or how many ways we can work together to support these young women. I thought it was as simple as doing a few crafts and earning a few badges but with each passing year, the more interesting and creative I found the program to be and I learned just as much as the girls I was working with along the way!” She is now the proud mother of two Gold Award and Lifetime Member Girl Scouts — one with a BFA in musical theater and playwriting, and the other graduating this December with a BFA in Art and New Media. She has also aided local Girl Scouts from other troops as they embarked on their Girl Scout Gold Award journeys by offering support and volunteering at their events.
Brittany has taken on many Girl Scout roles over the years, including troop co-leader for a Daisy/Brownie troop, a troop leader for Brownies through Ambassadors, a service unit camp coordinator, and Service Unit 430’s World Thinking Day organizer. She has coordinated Girl Scout Sundays in fellowship with other Girl Scout troops and says she has been blessed to have have been able to coordinate Girl Scout service projects with her meeting host, Pilmoor Methodist Church, such as food pantry supply collection, church and beachfront clean ups, caroling, and crafts at a local nursing home.
At the Council level, she has served two terms as National Delegate for the 2020 and 2023 National Council Sessions. In that role, she worked closely with the delegate team to prepare for NCS and studied the language and mechanics of Parliamentary Procedure, as well as hosting Delegate Information Forums for potential and incoming delegates.
Her leadership has caught the eye of GSCCC’s CEO Tracy Keller, and she was invited to work with the Council's DEI Assessment Task Group, the Strategic Alignment Committee, and the Movement Governance Advisory Task Group.
Her love for working with Girl Scouts opened a door to act as a chaperone for teens on an overseas Girl Scout Destination to London with more than 40 Girl Scouts from all over the nation alongside our council's Destination Coordinator, Eileen Livick. Brittany also chaperoned a trip of Girl Scout Cadettes and Seniors to Washington DC for the launch of the Juliette Gordon Low quarter, part of the American Women Quarters™ Program, hosted by the Smithsonian National Postal Museum. This summer, she will be one of two chaperones for a group of four GSCCC Girl Scout teens selected to participate in the Global Citizen Summit, as part of a group of 100 teens from around the world gathering in Washington DC, an event held as part of the Girl Scouts Unite national convention.
Brittany is also interested in history and joined the GSCCC Archives Committee two years ago. She helps organize and preserve our Council’s past for future generations and supports volunteers who want to learn from and enjoy our archives collection. In March, she traveled to Edith Macy Conference Center for its closing ceremonies. A final pinning ceremony was held marking the end of nearly a century of Girl Scout gatherings at the historic New York venue. One of the highlights from Brittany’s first (and last) time at Edith Macy Center was visiting The Great Hall, a historic stone building with beautiful woodwork. Built in 1926, it was constructed of local materials with the stones coming from stone fences on the property and local pine and fir trees supplying the timber.
There was an urgency to get the Great Hall and all of Edith Macy completed to host the fourth International Conference in May 1926, attended by Juliette Gordon Low, Sir Robert Baden-Powell, Olive Baden-Powell, Lou Henry Hoover, and 56 delegates from 32 countries. One outcome of this conference was the creation of Thinking Day and its celebration on February 22. The fourth International Conference was also the last international gathering attended by Juliette, who died on January 17, 1927.
“Visiting Edith Macy Center at this time of my life, before taking part in the Global Citizen Summit, was an extraordinary opportunity,” Brittany said. “The history of our Movement and the focus on international understanding has encouraged me to continue on my journey of understanding more about our Movement and the ways we interact globally with our sister Girl Scouts and Girl Guides. It was truly overwhelming to learn the history of the incredible women whose shoulders we sit on today as we continue to find innovative ways to teach the next generation of young women, and to be reminded of how important Girl Scouting and our world Movement is to making the world a better place.”
