Joaquin Alvarado

Joaquín Alvarado Senior Vice President for Innovation and Diversity at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Previously he was the Founding Director of the Institute for Next Generation Internet at San Francisco State University. In 2004 he began architecting the National Public Lightpath as a framework for public media, education and community leadership in the future of the Internet. In 2005 he formed San Francisco’s Digital Media Advisory Council and founded the Digital Sister Cities initiative to connect leading communities worldwide in common efforts to stimulate economic development, innovation and diversity. In 2008 he launched CoCo Studios to develop media collaboration and information platforms for fiber networks. In addition to his leadership role in education, Joaquín Alvarado is also an award winning writer, producer and director. His films have been featured in numerous film festivals, including the AFI Los Angeles International Film and the San Francisco Independent Film Festival.
Joaquin Alvarado is the author of Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art Volumes I & II, published by Bilingual Review Press. He is a contributing author in Teaching Ethnic Diversity With Film: Essays And Resources For Educators In History, Social Studies, Literature And Film Studies, published by Mcfarland & Co. The Silent Cross, for which he wrote the screenplay, is Joaquín Alvarado's first feature film as a director and made its debut at the Cine-Latino Film Festival in 2004.
Mr. Alvarado holds a B.A. in Chicano Studies from U.C. Berkeley and an M.F.A. from the UCLA School of Film, Television, and Digital Media. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Bay Area Video Coalition, the California Council for he Humanities, CineGrid, TechSoup Global, and Latino Public Broadcasting.