Marla Shaivitz
Hi, I’m Marla Shaivitz, a solutions-driven digital strategist with proven success in orchestrating and implementing comprehensive strategies to foster innovation and improve operational efficiencies.
Hi, I’m Marla Shaivitz, a solutions-driven digital strategist with proven success in orchestrating and implementing comprehensive strategies to foster innovation and improve operational efficiencies.
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I have spent my career leading and empowering teams to foster a culture of digital innovation, collaboration, and agility. Integrating design thinking into my work, I lead and develop employee training and development programs focused on digital literacy and new technologies (AI anyone?) to empower staff in adopting digital solutions to create workplace efficiencies.
My experience lies in integrated communications, online community, web and app development, content creation and project management for web-based software. Currently, I work for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Center for Communication Programs, as Director of Digital Strategy. Prior to this position, I 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.) I spent nine years as the Web Technology Director at The Horizon Foundation, a proactive, strategic philanthropy where I 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, I was a founding member of Ellipsis Partners, a strategic consulting firm focusing on the online needs of nonprofit organizations and associations. Additionally, I 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, I have interviewed entrepreneurs across the United States and Africa.
Enabling Data-Led Communications about Preventing the Spread of COVID-19
November 10, 2020
Medium
(co-authored with Amanda Makulec)
Is a Liberal Arts Education Worth It?
December 23, 2019
Medium
Artificial Intelligence and its Promising Application in Global Health
April 18, 2019
Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
How to Use the New Mosquito Emoji
October 30, 2018
Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
In the face of another winter COVID surge, will Marylanders be willing to compromise?
Baltimore Sun
December 17, 2021
Q&A with Marla Shaivitz and Dominick Shattuck: Data on Behaviors and Beliefs Empowers Countries to Combat COVID-19
Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center
Oct. 13, 2021 (Interviewed)
The Newest Emoji Say as Much About Us as Actual Words
Wired
Feb. 12, 2018 (Mention)
Mosquito emoji with a serious message
BBC News
Oct. 3, 2018 (Interviewed)
iPhone update to include emoji touted by public health experts
Becker’s Hospital Review
Oct. 3, 2018 (Quoted)
New mosquito emoji scratches itch of public health workers, smartphone users
Baltimore Sun
Feb. 9, 2018 (Interviewed)
Why There’s A Lot Of Buzz About A Possible Mosquito Emoji
NPR
Oct. 18, 2017 (Interviewed)
Mosquitoes spread deadly diseases, and public health experts hope to fight back with this new emoji
LA Times
Sept. 22, 2017 (Quoted)
2 public health care workers want to create mosquito emoji
Chicago Tribune
Sept. 21, 2017 (Sort of mentioned, lol)