Biography

Brenda Gerber Vincent currently serves as the Chief Impact Officer at Greater Fort Wayne Inc. She is committed to creating quality and equity of place for all through economic development, programming and leadership.

Brenda served as a Governor appointed, Indiana Bicentennial Commissioner, and serves on numerous committees and boards including, The United Front Initiative, The Board of Governors for the Richard G. Lugar Excellence in Public Service Series, Vera Bradley Foundation, The Carriage House, Love Fort Wayne, and the Parkview Health Systems Board.

Brenda was the only representative from NE Indiana, appointed by Governor Holcomb, to serve on the newly created Opportunity Zones Task Force, a federal initiative to bring private-sector investments to low-income areas in Fort Wayne and NE Indiana.

Brenda is proud to be a fourth generation Fort Wayne native. She received her bachelor’s degree from Indiana University, where she continues to serve on the Indiana University Board of Associates for the Student Foundation. Besides her husband and children, she considers her single greatest achievement being a founding board member of the Carriage House, a rehabilitation facility established to restore seriously mentally ill persons to maximum social and employment functioning.

Brenda is an alumna of the “Aspen Institute” for Global Leadership, the first woman in NE Indiana to be awarded the prestigious “Heart of Indiana - Torchbearer Award”, and in 2016 received the Sagamore of the Wabash, Indiana’s highest civilian honor.