Catherine Pierre is director of communications for SNF Agora. She joined Johns Hopkins University in 2003 as associate editor of Johns Hopkins Magazine and became editor in 2007. She has since served as publications director, editorial director, director of communications, and senior director of integrated marketing and branding in the university’s central Office of Communications. Before coming to Hopkins, she was the manager of public relations at the Walters Art Museum, an internationally renowned institution located in Baltimore. Prior to that, she spent five years as an editor at Baltimore magazine, where she covered the arts, health, and other topics of interest to a general readership. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature from the University of Maryland and a master’s in English literature from Indiana University
