Director of Marketing and Communications Shannon Murphy (she/her) received her MS in Public Policy & Management from the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, and a BA in English from Chatham College.

Murphy has more than 15 years' experience working in the non-profit and public sectors where she led numerous marketing initiatives, wrote grants, and helped administer innovative programs. She spent more than five years living and working in Latin America where she taught Marketing and Business classes, and worked as Director of Marketing for a multi-national company based in Ecuador.