Debora Hoffman Email & Phone Number

Boston, MA, US

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Manage and update the IMAP website and social media channels with new content
• Edit research videos for posting to the web and/or social media
• Manage events: coordinate with BU departments; order supplies; assist with set-up and clean-up
• Manage invitations and RSVPs to events
• Draft regular IMAP newsletters and manage the IMAP mailing list
• Add graphic design and/or images to text-content provided by IMAP researchers

Remote

• Reporting to the executive director, represent the organization in interactions with 250 members, seven local chapters, sponsors, allies, and the greater community
• Launched a public education initiative: created a slide deck, reach out to local allies in climate and sustainability, schedule 10-minute presentations about Passive House, and follow up on potential.
• Engage closely with leaders of local chapters to co-organize monthly meetings, send email notifications, and pitch agenda topics based on organizational goals
• Created a template for a monthly newsletter with chapter updates and a feature article about a member of interest: interview subjects and polish their cover stories

Waltham, MA, USA

• In 2020, hosted the library’s first virtual events: in 22 months, hosted 60 events, including live streams via Zoom to YouTube; see the library’s YouTube page
• Ideated and executed nine programs as part of the A Year of Black History series that included HBCUs, Juneteenth, Jim Crow, mass incarceration, and Black music history
• Selected the theme (Hamilton) and coordinated a summer full of events for the 2018 Watch Read Listen series, including the opening day event; most notably, sourced colonial-era costumes for library staff from a local.
• Created Welcome Back video when the library reopened after pandemic closure
• Designed and managed the weekly newsletter and produced marketing materials
• Active member of the equity team, which vetted an equity, diversity, and inclusion consultant

• Correspondent, Belmont Citizen Herald, 2012 to 2019
• Writer & Meeting Scribe, Interaction Institute for Social Change, 2013 to 2015
• Editor & Researcher, Youth Detention Center Curriculum Guide, Commonwealth Corp., 2012
• Reporter, The Swarthmorean (community newspaper), 2005 to 2011
• Copyeditor, Forensic Case Files (Author: David Smith, PhD), 2009

• Over the summers of 2015, 2016, and 2017, organized annual Fall Festival, an event that attracted over 400 people
• Spearheaded planning group of community members and REACH staff

Master Of Public Health (Mph), Health Services

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), English