Marla Shaivitz has in-depth knowledge of new media technologies and trends and is interested in data visualization, machine learning and how web technology creates efficiencies in operations, particularly in global health/nonprofit organizations.

Her experience lies in integrated communications, online community, web development, content creation and project management for web-based software. Currently, she works for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Center for Communication Programs, as Director of Digital Strategy. Prior to this  position, she worked in the B2B software world in digital marketing, crafted numerous websites as a front-end developer and wrote by-lined and ghost-written articles on tech topics (here’s a Pinterest board of articles.) She spent nine years as the Web Technology Director at The Horizon Foundation, a proactive, strategic philanthropy where she provided counsel and direction on how web technology could best achieve organizational goals in addition to directing activity for the Foundation’s web properties and social media.

Prior to the Foundation, she was a founding member of Ellipsis Partners, a strategic consulting firm focusing on the online needs of nonprofit organizations and associations.  Additionally, she worked in public relations for the National Aquarium in Baltimore and the Kennedy Krieger Institute, an internationally recognized institution for children with developmental disorders.

As a contributing writer for a popular tech blog focused on technology companies and their founders, she has interviewed entrepreneurs across the United States and Africa.