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Ten days after the violence of October 7th, Shira Hoffer founded the Hotline for Israel/Palestine (HIP), a texting hotline promising multipartisan, judgement-free answers to questions related to the region. Four months later, HIP has grown to include 27 volunteers from around the world, who have answered over 300 questions. Shira will address the Ethics Monday series audience virtually from the UK, speaking about the inspiration and process of founding this organization, lessons and takeaways she’s learned from running it, and how she intends to expand the impact of her mission through her founding of HIP’s parent organization, the Institute for Multipartisan Education.
Shira Hoffer is the Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Multipartisan Education, which includes the Hotline for Israel/Palestine. A junior at Harvard College studying Social Studies and Religion, she served on Harvard Dean Rakesh Khurana’s Intellectual Vitality Committee for two years, advising and presenting on new strategies for promoting curious and constructive disagreement inside and out of Harvard’s classrooms. She is a former fellow and research assistant at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics’ Intercollegiate Civil Disagreement Program, and a practicing mediator in Massachusetts courts.
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