Otile McManus
Otile McManus is retired from a 45-year career as a journalist and communications consultant with specialties in community outreach, strategic planning, and market research.
In her last post, McManus served as a project director at Corcoran Jennison, a Boston-based developer of mixed-income housing. During her 15 years at the company, she had a number of responsibilities including the production of “A Decent Place to Live,” a community history of Columbia Point published by Northeastern University Press in 1999 and reissued in 2017 with a new foreword by MIT professor Lawrence Vale.
Prior to her stint there, McManus worked for almost twenty five years at the Boston Globe in a number of capacities, including reporter, editor, columnist, and member of the newspaper’s editorial board. A graduate of Wells College in Aurora, NY, she served on the boards of Historic Massachusetts and the Emerald Necklace Conservancy. She was also a founding member of the Conversation Project, a public engagement end-of-life-care initiative now housed at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Cambridge, MA.
Married to the late Robert L. Turner, long-time Globe political opinion writer, she has two grown daughters and four grandchildren.