Maura Schorr Beaufait

Maura in a wheelbarrow Maura Schorr Beaufait is the Distance Learning and Outreach Coordinator at New Entry. In this role, she has translated the long-standing Farm Business Planning Course into an online format intended to engage a broader audience that may experience barriers to traveling to Lowell for the weekly classroom sessions. Through the flexibility offered by the distance learning module, New Entry hopes to make the course available to many more students each year. Maura holds a Master of Science degree from the Agriculture, Food, and Environment Program at Tufts University and a Master of Public Health from the Tufts School of Medicine.

Before joining the New Entry team in 2007, Maura worked for Cornell Cooperative Extension Dutchess County managing a quarter-acre urban farm in Poughkeepsie, NY. In addition, she sits on the board ofHybrid Vigor Projects, a non-profit organization which designs, develops, and produces socially-engaged participatory public project in service of positive social change. Launched in 2011, the Boston Tree Party is Hybrid Vigor's first production.

Maura can be reached at maura.beaufait@tufts.edu.

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