Joel Goudeau is Creative Director at the Charles Butt Foundation, where he leads the foundation’s brand, marketing, and communications and serves on its leadership team. He sets the foundation’s creative and brand strategy and partners with leaders across the organization to carry its mission to educators, students, and communities statewide.
Joel has spent the better part of two decades within mission-driven nonprofits, building brands across Texas education and advocacy. Before joining the foundation, he spent more than seven years leading brand and creative for Raise Your Hand Texas, where he directed the creative on its highest-profile legislative campaigns and architected the digital platform behind its statewide grassroots network. He brings that builder’s instinct to the foundation, shaping its brand along with the systems and team that sustain it.
Joel holds a BFA in graphic design from Abilene Christian University. Brazilian-born, he is a husband and father of three who enjoys backyard soccer games, travel, and photography.