Robert brings more than five years of experience in communications, online strategies, and public advocacy. Most recently, he served as a communications consultant for Urban Strategies, where he coordinated the efforts of web maintenance and e-newsletter content. Previously, he joined the online communications team at the Center for American Progress, where he worked on an array of activities, including copyediting and web content management through CMS and CRM systems, social media administration, email and e-newsletter delivery, and the translation of web content for the Center’s version in Spanish.
Prior to this, he joined the International Budget Partnership, a project from the Washington, D.C.-based Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, in which he focused on e-newsletter content, database management and segmentation, internal blogging, and video editing. In 2008, he joined the United Nations’ Department of Public Information, where he worked on database management systems to better outreach Model UN groups and think tanks across the world, as well as generating online material for the UN Chronicle, a quarterly publication.
An avid public policy blogger, Robert has written online materials ranging from immigration, labor and business issues, and U.S.- Latin American relations for the Center for American Progress, the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, and the World Policy Institute. He holds an M.A. in Public Relations from Iona College, a B.S. in Communications and a B.A. in International Relations from Florida International University. He’s fluent in Spanish and French.
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