Joaquín Alvarado is the founder of Studiotobe, a media production and consulting firm dedicated to journalism, storytelling, and community-based impact.
Prior to Studiotobe, Joaquin served as CEO of The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) 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 many leading media companies and non-profits, including Microsoft, Univision, NBC News, the Ford Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the James B. McClatchy Foundation. His recent work with Microsoft and its local journalism initiative is available on the Microsoft Journalism Hub.
In 2007, Joaquín launched CoCo Studios, an early VR media collaboration platform for fiber and mobile networks. Joaquín was the founding director of the Institute for Next Generation Internet, which launched in 2005 from San Francisco State University.
A veteran of many non-profit boards, Joaquin currently serves on the boards of Consumer Reports, the James B. McClatchy Foundation, Rebuild Local News Coalition, Aurora Sentinel Community Media and 826 National. He is the co-author of the two-volume “Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art” (Bilingual Press, 2002). Joaquín holds a bachelor’s degree in Chicano Studies from UC Berkeley and an MFA from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.