Cora Wright
Advocate Supervisor
Cora Wright is a graduate of Niagara University in Niagara Falls, NY. She graduated in 2017 with her Bachelor of Science in Social Work with a Law and Legal Jurisprudence minor. Cora is a recent graduate of Boston University, where she earned her Master of Social Work in 2022. Before joining Boston CASA, Cora interned with the Rose Bente Lee Ostapenko Center for Race, Equity, and Mission, where she mentored youth scholars through the Race, Education, Advocacy, College Credit Courses in High School (REAC3H) program. During this time, she was also responsible for organizing a series of student forums at Niagara University that brought students together to discuss and plan action towards racial justice. During her Master program, Cora interned for Possibilities Here, Inc., a nonprofit local to Boston, MA that reaches out to young women and female identifying persons in and from the foster care system to provide programming around aging-out and leadership development. Cora was also a volunteer for the Niagara Falls (NY) Health Equity Task Force in 2021. This task force was created to address concerns that Black and Latinx community members in the Falls were not receiving equitable resources to survive the pandemic. Cora has also worked for Buffalo Homeless Outreach through the Matt Urban HOPE Center and has volunteered for the St. Francis of Assisi food pantry in North Tonawanda, NY. She is passionate about working with young people and believes that they can do anything they set their minds to.