Paula Bock Email and Phone Number
Paula Bock is an award-winning communications professional whose work has earned three nominations for the Pulitzer Prize, 50 journalism awards, and generated large-scale support for communities in need—creating social impact through journalism, digital financial services, corporate engagement, and health and civil society organizations. As co-founder of She Mobilizes, a Digital Sisterhood initiative supported by the Gates Foundation and others, she has conducted qualitative and quantitative research around DFS usage among women in low-income countries and has deep understanding of behaviors, barriers, and incentives along the value chain. Paula has focused on marginalized peoples in Asia and Africa since 1996 as a veteran Seattle Times journalist, Mae Tao Clinic volunteer, and Partners Asia staff. She’s served in senior editorial roles at global nonprofit PATH and Pacific Science Center. Paula earned a college degree from Harvard University, studied as a Rotary International Ambassador in Taipei and serves on PATH's Institutional Review Board. Her documentary photographs were awarded laurels at Women Deliver 2023 and are featured in the Smithsonian Institution's online exhibition, A Day in the Life of Asian Pacific America, and in newspapers, magazines, and nonprofit publications.Gender equality | women's economic empowerment | financial Inclusion | digital financial services | mobile money | journalism | storytelling | writing | documentary photography | strategic communications | speech writing | op-eds | blogging | science writing | feature writing | profiles | TED talks | emerging markets | ethnographic research | Myanmar | Cambodia | Kenya | Thailand | India
She Mobilizes
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Chief Communications Officer And Co-Founder | She MobilizesShe MobilizesSeattle, Wa, Us
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Chief Communications Officer & Co-Founder | She MobilizesShe Mobilizes 2018 - PresentLead communications and resource strategy and advise on programmatic innovation to accelerate financial inclusion, women economic empowerment and advanced digital use cases (health, education) through support of responsible digitized payments (G2P, B2P and P2P) in Myanmar, Cambodia, and Kenya. Lead communications with philanthropic investors, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, documenting best practices to enable adoption and scale-up by local, national and global stakeholders.
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Research Ethics CommitteePath Mar 2017 - PresentSeattleAs a voting member, Paula is responsible for the ethical review of PATH’s biomedical and behavioral research to ensure the protection of human research subjects. Certified in Human Subjects Protections Training, National Institutes of Health. -
Senior Writer/EditorPath Sep 2016 - Jul 2018SeattleAs a strategic storyteller on the Corporate Engagement and Content teams, articulated PATH’s work and approach in shared value partnerships to drive action from current and potential corporate partners, governmental bodies, and international health and development organizations. Conceptualized and created high-level marketing materials, op-eds, speeches, blog posts, proposals, presentations, and case studies.
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Co-Author | Mobilizing Myanmar: A Smartphone Revolution Connects The Poor With Economic OpportunityPartners Asia 2017 - PresentSeattleMobilizing Myanmar, a 2017 research report commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, explores the momentous transformation underway in a once-isolated country where cell towers sprouted faster than bamboo. As primary writer, editor, and photographer, I conducted ethnographic research in rural and urban areas, interviewing more than 150 people about mobile phone usage, financial lives, challenges, and hopes. Our country-level diagnostic also leveraged data from the Central Bank, Ministry of Communications, telecom companies, Facebook, Viber, UNFPA census and survey of 7,500 households. -
Senior Editor And Content ManagerPacific Science Center Dec 2012 - Jul 2016Greater Seattle AreaManaging editor for the Science Center’s news blog; founding editor of Wellbody Blog to rally healthy behavior change following the launch of $7.8 million Wellbody Academy exhibit. Authored the president’s speeches and senior leaders’ TED talks, op-eds, position papers, annual reports, and a weekly e-newsletter that increased circulation by 65 percent over three years. -
Director Of External RelationsPartners Asia Dec 2009 - Dec 2012Seattle, WaPartners Asia formerly Foundation for the People Of Burma and Community Partners InternationalResponsible for external and internal communications and development for a nonprofit that distributed $1.5 million annually to community-led projects to strengthen civil society in Burma/Myanmar and bordering countries, then the largest U.S.-based nonprofit dedicated to humanitarian work in and around Burma/Myanmar. Led strategy to share field partners’ work with a global network through print and broadcast channels on earned media and social media.
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Senior Staff Writer, Pacific Northwest Sunday MagazineThe Seattle Times 1990 - 2008SeattleKnown for award-winning stories and multimedia projects that moved readers and policy makers to act on behalf of Burmese refugees (www.seattletimes.com/burma); women with AIDS in Zimbabwe (www.seattletimes.com/aids); the helicopter door-gunner who stopped the My Lai massacre; plastics in the Pacific; Amerasians from Vietnam. Nominated for Pulitzer Prizes for Feature Writing (twice) and International Reporting. Senior staff writer for Pacific Northwest Sunday Magazine, 14 years; chief education reporter, 3 years; led Newsroom Writers’ Group, 5 years. Collaborated with photographers, artists, web designers and editors from concept through publication. -
Visiting FacultyPoynter Institute 1999 - 2006Authored “Mission and Meaning in Journalism” in Values, Craft, American Journalism: Essays from the Poynter Institute. Served as writing coach and instructor for professional journalists at national workshops and on Florida campus. -
Staff WriterThe Patriot Ledger Jun 1988 - Jun 1990Quincy, MaNominated for Pulitzer Prize in Public Service for a 12-part team series about the burgeoning Asian-American population in Quincy, MA that led to improved community services for immigrants.
Paula Bock Education Details
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Harvard UniversityEnglish And American Literature -
Rotary International Ambassador Scholar - National Taiwan Normal University
Frequently Asked Questions about Paula Bock
What company does Paula Bock work for?
Paula Bock works for She Mobilizes
What is Paula Bock's role at the current company?
Paula Bock's current role is Chief Communications Officer and Co-Founder | She Mobilizes.
What schools did Paula Bock attend?
Paula Bock attended Harvard University, Rotary International Ambassador Scholar - National Taiwan Normal University.
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