Eboney Hearn

Eboney Hearn was named the new executive director of the MIT Office of Engineering Outreach Programs (OEOP). She assumed her role on August 22, 2016. An alumna of the Department of Chemical Engineering with deep knowledge of the Institute, Hearn previously served as assistant dean for graduate education and diversity initiatives at the Office of the Dean for Graduate Education (ODGE) from 2014 to 2016 and as program director of the Broad Institute's diversity initiative from 2008 to 2014. In both roles she provided strategic direction and coordination to increase student diversity and academic success at all levels.

At ODGE Hearn oversaw retention and recruitment efforts of underrepresented minority graduate students, staff training, budget management, and in collaboration with the foundation relations and development offices, secured contributions to support existing efforts and to create new ones such as the University Center for Exemplary Mentoring at MIT.