About the Author

Jeff is a writer and technologist with a wide variety of nonprofit and corporate leadership experience.

Here are a few of his recent projects:

  • Helping The Herbfarm raise $330,000 to feed doctors, nurses and hospital staff during the early Covid pandemic.
  • Brush of Seattle and Portland Wild, a visual guide to Portland, Oregon’s hundreds of public art murals, special Heritage Trees and Little Free Libraries and Seattle’s covid and public art murals.
  • Black Women in Politics, a database of black women running for office in 2018, now closed.

In 2020 – 2021, Reifman was the Director of Technology at LOANtuitive, a commercial real estate startup. He jumpstarted the technology team on a tight budget, launched its service offerings and made introductions which directly led to its first $650,000 from its $1.1 million funding round.

Jeff is a three time grant recipient of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. He’s known in Seattle for his earlier not for profit coffeehouses, coverage of Microsoft’s tax dodging and the overwhelming impact of Amazon’s growth.

He is an avid snowboarder, photographer and traveler. He has more than 700 hours of yoga teacher training and previously volunteered teaching teens in substance recovery with Street Yoga.