DONNA HOFFMAN is a communication and community organizing professional with other thirty years’ experience in the non-profit sector. As Communications Coordinator for the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club, she produced over 30 press events, wrote or edited over 200 press releases, pitched stories published in local, state, national and international publications. She curated a photo exhibit from photographers across the State, presented at the Texas State Capitol during the 2011 Legislature. In 2013, Hoffman brought together the leadership of historic Blackshear Elementary School and Huston-Tillotson University to co-found the nonprofit group Blackshear Bridge. The organization has built community in central East Austin by providing weekly outdoors sustainability education, sustainable food access, and big fun, community garden workdays including the planting and maintenance of 23 trees, the building of two large rainscapes, and an overhaul of the Elementary School track. Hoffman serves as Sustainability Coordinator and Director of Blackshear Bridge. Blackshear Bridge is currently working on creative place keeping – commissioning a mural and organizing a reunion of former Blackshear Elementary School community members while reaching out with affordability resources to current vulnerable residents.  View Donna Hoffman’s work here.