LaShawn M. Hoffman
LaShawn M. Hoffman is a civic ,community and public health leader who advocates safe, healthy, and economically viable communities. LaShawn leads a boutique consultancy focused on smart community development, , public health, strategic neighborhood planning, community building and civic engagement, traditional and non-traditional land-use, community engaged research and successful, influential non-profit management.
The intersection of public health and community development is a crucial factor in LaShawn’ s approach to comprehensive community revitalization and development. In 2010, LaShawn was elected Chairperson person of the Morehouse School of Medicine Prevention Research Center Community Coalition Board. LaShawn is the recent Past Chair of the CDC PRC Network Community Committee. LaShawn’s public health leadership is evident through his appointments to local and national taskforce and committees, leading a diverse group of community advocates, academic partners, and agencies in strategies that reduce health disparities and promote partnerships using the community-based participatory research model.
LaShawn has spearheaded a wide range of programs focused on community improvement, public health, and economic growth. LaShawn has stepped up to facilitate the community-based planning necessary to achieve sound conservation and growth strategies. He has navigated some of the most extreme fallout from the foreclosure crisis and recession to protect vulnerable homeowners and has promoted neighborhood preservation and socio-economic and cultural diversity through housing development, public health, social services, civic engagement, and advocacy. Through this work, LaShawn was awarded the Loeb Fellowship at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, class of 2015 for his achievement in community economic development. LaShawn was elected President of the Loeb Fellowship Alumni Association in November 2022. He leads 500+ alumni who are shaping the built and natural environment by drawing upon the full range of people who live, work, and play there, globally.