Shira Hoffer is the founding Executive Director of the Institute for Multipartisan Education. A member of the Harvard College Class of 2025, she served on Harvard’s Intellectual Vitality Committee for two years, is a former fellow and research assistant at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics’ Intercollegiate Civil Disagreement Program, and is a practicing mediator in Massachusetts courts. Her senior thesis explored the contemporary relationship between religious identity and speech behaviors on US college campuses.