Deborah Silva Email & Phone Number

United States

As Youth Outreach and Special Projects Manager, Deborah leads strategic partnerships to promote youth engagement and civic participation, with a focus on increasing youth voter turnout in key states. She articulates futurevoice’s mission and research to executives and stakeholders, coordinating outreach to enhance awareness of youth civic issues. Deborah also oversees the Gen Z Advisory Council in collaboration with the creative team, managing agendas and logistics to ensure that youth perspectives shape the organization’s understanding of target audiences.

Selected into a leadership fellowship program in honor of the late Greg Ricks for young professionals working to further develop global leadership, design thinking, shared-value, and social enterprise know-how. Collaborates with fellow participants from diverse backgrounds, fostering global connections and broadening perspectives to develop personal projects aimed at driving positive change within local communities with monthly calls and two immersions; one in the US, and one in South Africa.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Launched a benefits package offering unpaid volunteers professional development opportunities, certificate programs, job support, and access to a professional alumni network. Develops and executes a strategic plan to expand mentor numbers, increasing volunteer inquiries by 65% yearly.

• Mentored children from the Somerville Subsidized Housing Community, fostering their development as young leaders • Orchestrated weekly 3-hour educational and empowering programs to address economic disparities • Provided diversity training and insights for mentors and mentees to promote inclusivity • Enhanced communication with mentees’ families by interpreting and translating documents to from English to Portuguese

• Advocates for inclusiveness on matters of diversity through training and insights, teaching both mentors and mentees • Translates documents from English to Portuguese, easing communication between mentors and the housing community families

• Plans and leads weekly 2-hour meetings incentivizing multiethnic fellowship and religious worship• Meets individually with members for weekly discipleship and mentoring, encouraging belief-building and self-development

• Informed company partners of students' testimonials through videos and social media posts, increasing annual sponsorships by 15%

• Served as the first-person contact for issues regarding grading, financial aid, credits, and other logistical student information • Converted and digitized older formats of sensitive student information, reducing staff work time by 10 hours a month • Organized transcripts, team rosters, financial aid documents, and graduation packets for staff across all Tufts-affiliated campuses

• Helps students plan their civic journey at tufts, increasing student service work in Somerville, Medford, and Greater-Boston • Teaches students civic competencies and well-being practices through weekly classes, edifying SEL in higher education

• Reassessed recruitment and fundraising goals based on past statics to increase team efficiency • Recruited mentors in Metro-Boston areas by hosting relevant outreach events• Streamlined recruitment & fundraising on Salesforce, Forms Assembly and ClickUp, increasing volunteer inquiries by 50% a month• Informed company stakeholders of success stories through blog posts, interviews, and social media posts, increasingsponsorships by 20% each year

• Co-authored a paper on parent willingness to vaccinate children in which the impact of misinformation is explored to encourage COVID-19 vaccination rates; Published online February 8, 2023• Conducted Key Informant interviews on Brazilian religious and health communities to better gauge mental health needs during the pandemic for community-intervention research

Brockton, Massachusetts, United States

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, International Relations And Affairs, Minors In Portuguese And Chinese, 3.81

Activities and Societies: Summa Cum Laude, Sigma Iota Pho, Honous Civicus

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Marching band, Advanced Concert Band, Peer Mediator, Tutor, National Honors' Society, Foreign Language Honors'.