Nora Chovanec is an award-winning creative director, marketing and communications specialist, and multidisciplinary designer. Her experience spans work on environmental conservation, LGBTQ+ advocacy, health equity, and food systems. She is adept at wearing many hats — from setting organizational vision to overseeing paid and earned media campaigns to aligning teams with industry best practices. She loves to collaborate with clients, creatives, and technologists to guide intentional, thought-provoking, and accessible work that elevates an organization’s storytelling capabilities across a wide range of media and platforms.
Through the five-year combined-degree program, Nora holds a BFA in Fine Art (with concentrations in photography and printmaking) from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and a BA in International Women’s Studies with Honos Civicus distinction from Tufts University. Her background includes over a decade of work as a designer and researcher for architect Maya Lin’s science-based, Webby award-winning art memorial What Is Missing?, seven years supporting the team at Texas Farmers’ Market and organizing the Austin Fermentation Festival, and two decades of creative directing Anthem award-winning multimedia stories as both a freelancer and in-house at the digital agency Threespot. Nora is currently the VP, Marketing & Communications at Iroquois Valley Farmland, REIT, a certified B Corporation that provides financing and support for organic farmers across America.
As a creative director, Nora has built a diverse catalog of clients, including the National Network of Abortion Funds, Planned Parenthood, The Gates Foundation, The Trevor Project, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, National Parks Trust, the U.S. Department of State’s National Museum of American Diplomacy, and others. Nora’s work has been featured in the New York Times, PBS, Bon Appétit, Domino Magazine, Food52, Vice, and more. Sometimes, Nora writes short thought pieces about creativity, design, and nature, which you can read here. In addition, Nora is an active member of The Communications Network and a judge for the Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Contest.
Nora is passionate about helping communities build sustainable practices that support and conserve the natural environment. She believes the space for understanding and change begins with conversation and creativity. Raised an Oregonian, she currently lives in Washington D.C. with her husband, the Arabic and Turkish scholar Matthew Chovanec, their beloved cat named Pamuk, and a plethora of pollinators in their native garden patch.
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