“Alberto is the right leader at the right time for NAHJ,” said Mekahlo Medina, NAHJ President. “He comes with decades of non-profit experience, exceptional organizational skills, sponsorship building and a history of elevating organizations to the next level.”
That extensive non-profit experience includes recently serving as the Regional Vice President with Jumpstart: Children First where he led the operations in California, Texas and Washington which served over 3300 children. He also served as the President and CEO of the Coalition for Clean Air, a California policy and advocacy organization, where he was the first Latino leader to run a statewide environmental organization.
In 2009, United States Senator Barbara Boxer honored Mendoza with the first ever U.S. Environmental Leadership Award. Alberto was also the founding Regional Executive Director for the Drug Policy Alliance- Southern California office and also led programs for Girl Scouts USA, Public Counsel and AIDS Project Los Angeles.
And as pleased as NAHJ was to name him on June 10 as their new executive director, he is just as pleased to be joining the organization.
Congratulations Alberto! I have no doubts that NAHJ is headed to the next level as a journalism organization with him in their executive director role that he will assume full time in September. I've known him for several years as one of my FB friends and couldn't be happier for him.
I'm looking forward to the day I finally get to meet him. May have to do so at that joint NAHJ-NABJ conference in Washington DC next year.
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