Brandy Kramer is the Program Manager for Project SHINE, a program that connects elderly refugees and immigrants to health care, while engaging them in health wellness activities and teaching health literacy in the communities where they live. Kramer earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, NC, and spent four years teaching ESL abroad to medical providers and contracted with companies that were relocating employees to the United States. After returning to the United States, she taught at Front Range Community College in Fort Collins prior to beginning at Spring Institute in 1997.