Débora Menieur Núñez serves as Truman- Albright Fellow at the Office of Communications and Outreach (OCO). With over 8 years of digital marketing and communications experience for national and Latin American markets, she joined the Department after serving as Communications Manager for the Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC), a unique public-private partnership advancing regulatory science in the medical device industry for patient benefit.
Before joining MDIC she served as Marketing and Communications Account Manager at Health2 Resources, an award-winning healthcare communications and public relations consulting firm. She also served as a Communications Specialist at Excelencia in Education, where she supported the organization’s efforts to advance evidence-based practices for Latino student success in higher education.
As a volunteer, she served as Co-founder and Executive Director of The Hope for Us Charity Puerto Rico, and until this year led their efforts to advance equitable access to education and resources to K-12 students of the public school system in Puerto Rico.
Débora graduated Summa Cum Laude, double majoring in Entrepreneurial and Managerial Development and Human Resources with a Minor in Psychology from the Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Arecibo where she became the first Truman Scholar. In 2018 she published her first book “Movilidad Estudiantil en Acción” [Student Mobility in Action], as a way to facilitate conversation about study abroad programs. Her efforts led to legislation being introduced to the Puerto Rico House of Representatives (P. de la C. 2166; pending) to facilitate access to information about available programs. She recently published “Art of Procrastination: Coloring & Activity Book” celebrating the importance of taking a break for mental health, the book is available on Amazon in Spanish and English.