Divinia Shorter is a DMV-born-and-raised theater artist and writer. A proud queer Black Latina, Divinia is excited to bring her background and EDI work to both her artistry and the LINK team as a Senior Associate.

At LINK, Divinia takes a hands-on approach with our clients, leading in areas that combine her art experience with her professional expertise. From national non-profits to private universities, Divinia pairs strong coordination and planning skills with connected storytelling to support clients in social media content planning, video series creation, and web rebranding. With event management skills ranging from local school events to national galas, she can tackle the big and small with fine details. As a core part of LINK’s media team, she is adept at localized pitching, story development, and connecting clients to relevant outlets. In her role on LINK’s production team, she leads on production coordination and planning for strong visual storytelling. 

After starting her working career in DC’s Department of General Services, Divinia pursued writing and theater in college, where she began her artistic career. Divinia’s long history of dramaturgy work in the theater started with a cold-reading group in the university’s theater department, followed by a lasting career with youth and regional theaters in the Baltimore and DC areas. Her field work has created a varied know-how of work systems across the region and nationally. With a writer-centered approach to her work, Divinia focuses on fostering connections, sharpening thematic clarity, and landing the messages of stories—both professional and artistic. With a background in novel writing, unusual storytelling is her specialty.

Divinia co-founded Greatest City Collective, a Baltimore-based non-profit that focused on uplifting artists and the social causes they care about. The business branched off to a successful and now independent podcast series, Sleepless Nights, a companion piece to the Collective’s original podcast Bus Ride Talks, which she hosted. She now uses her entrepreneurial skills to provide business and career coaching to fellow independent artists, offering expertise in career advancement, producing, field navigation, and personal branding. A writer of many forms, her current focus is her full-length play Queens and a YA novel. When she’s not writing or talking about writing, she can be found with her normal-sized horse, Faith, or her very tiny cat, Artemis.