Hope Drummond BS ’91 is a Community Advocate and Board Member with 15 years corporate experience specializing in marketing, diversity and inclusion, human resources, and communications.

Hope is a trustee at RIT where she serves on several committees, including Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Student Life, University Advancement, and Executive Compensation. She is a board member of GEVA Theatre and serves on the Summer Curtain Call/Education Committee. Hope is a Board Trustee of the College Foundation to which she was appointed by the Governor of North Carolina in September 2020. She is a board member of the Charlotte Morrison YMCA where she participates on the Run! Ballantyne Committee. She serves as an advisory member of the Rochester Jamaican Organization focused on raising funds to provide scholarships for students of the West Indian Community. She is an active member of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church in Charlotte and tutors children in the Augustine Literacy Program.

Hope has a lengthy history of board and community service including serving as board chair of the former Sojourner House in Rochester, New York, and as a trustee at Monroe Community College. She also served on the Arts & Cultural Council of Greater Rochester and as a board member of Carolina Dance Theatre in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Hope is the co-founder of Dreamseeds, a children’s program at the former Carlson YMCA, Rochester, New York that provides structured activities in the performing and fine arts to foster children’s self-esteem, creativity, discipline, and life lessons through a greater appreciation of the arts. Since COVID-19, the group has been relocated to the Maplewood YMCA where the focus has been on Dreamseeds Jazz Band. As a result of Dreamseeds, Hope and her husband earned the Rochester Mayor’s prestigious Unsung Hero Award; June 2001, and the Sojourner House 2010 Philanthropy Award.

Prior to her community and non-profit board activities, Hope worked at Eastman Kodak Company for 15 years. She earned her associate degree from Monroe Community College, and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from RIT.