Joaquin Alvarado

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Mr. Joaquin Alvarado serves as Chairman of the Board at Consumer Reports. Mr. Alvarado served as Board Member at TechSoup (IT Consulting and Outsourcing). Mr. Alvarado is the Founder of Studiotobe, a media and consulting firm dedicated to journalism, storytelling, and community-based impact. Prior to Studiotobe, he served as CEO of The Center for Investigative Reporting until September 2017. Before joining CIR, he was the 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 many leading media companies and nonprofits, including Univision, NBC News, the Ford Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2007 he launched CoCo Studios, an early VR media collaboration platform for fiber and mobile networks. Mr. Alvarado was the founding director of the Institute for Next Generation Internet, which launched in 2005 from San Francisco State University. Mr. 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 also serves on the boards of TechSoup Global, Cityside, and the James B. McClatchy Foundation. He is the co-author of the two-volume "Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art" (Bilingual Press, 2002).