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Cristina Benitez, Program Coordinator
Cristina Benitez is glad to join the SAIS community as the Program Coordinator
for the Energy, Resources, & Environment Program. Ms Benitez has worked for
Georgetown University’s Center for Social Justice advancing service learning and
community-based research among the DC Consortium of Universities. Her most
recent work has covered a variety of projects for public and private ventures
including constituent communications for a government agency and the strategic
start-up of a local business.
Cristina Benitez attended Trinity Washington University for her BA in Public
Policy and the Georgetown University Public Policy Institute for graduate studies
in Nonprofit Executive Management.
Shonda Hurt, Administrative Coordinator
Shonda Hurt is the new Administrative Coordinator of the Energy, Resources and
Environment Program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced
International Studies. She has a diverse background in consulting and
project/event management and has acquired over 10 years of experience
planning and executing hundreds of events for major corporations. A project that
she is particularly proud of is the “Why Can’t We All Just Buckle Up” campaign
that she helped to create and execute in a joint partnership with the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
She holds dual BA degrees in Business and Communications from the University
of Pittsburgh.
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