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 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 nonprofits, including Microsoft, Univision, NBC News, the Ford Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Seattle Times, and the James B. McClatchy Foundation.

His recent work with Microsoft’s Journalism initiative is available on the Microsoft Journalism Hub. A veteran of many nonprofit boards, Joaquin currently serves on the boards the James B McClatchy Foundation, Aurora Sentinel Community Media and 826 National. He is the co-author of the two-volume “Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art” (Bilingual Press, 2002).