Joaquin Alvarado

CEO

Joaquin Alvarado worked at The Center for Investigative Reporting until September, 2017. Before joining CIR, he was senior vice president for digital innovation at American Public Media and founding senior vice president for diversity and innovation at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. He also has been a strategic consultant for a number of leading media companies and nonprofits, including Univision, NBC News, the Ford Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He founded CoCo Studios, which promoted education and collaboration through game development for fiber and mobile networks. Alvarado was the founding director of the Institute for Next Generation Internet, which launched in 2005 from San Francisco State University. In 2004, he began the National Public Lightpath, advocating high-speed fiber-optic networks as the next generation of the Internet. Alvarado holds a bachelor’s degree in Chicano studies from UC Berkeley and an MFA from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. A veteran of many nonprofit boards, he currently serves on the boards of TechSoup Global and Consumer Reports. He is the co-author of the two-volume “Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art.”

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