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Donna Okubo<\/strong> serves as STM’s Community Engagement Consultant.<\/p>\n

Donna works closely with a diverse range of stakeholder groups across the STM universe, including STM members, funders, allied organizations, and partners. Her charge is to enhance our community by listening, learning, and discovering new ways to collaborate and advance trusted research together. Donna brings with her over 20 years of experience in science and data publishing. Her expertise spans community and member engagement, membership program development, strategic partnerships, and fundraising.<\/p>\n

Before joining STM, Donna was instrumental at Dryad, a research data publisher, where she laid the groundwork for their institutional membership program and collaborated with funders and researchers on their strategic initiatives. Her career also includes over 14 years at the Public Library of Science (PLOS), where she served in various roles, from Institutional Relations Manager to Senior Strategic Partnership Manager, working closely with institutional members, funders, and policymakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12491,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-8507","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nDonna Okubo - STM Association<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/stm-assoc.org\/people\/donna-okubo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Donna Okubo - STM Association\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Donna Okubo serves as STM’s Community Engagement Consultant. 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