Joseph Garcia

Experience

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  New Orleans Times-Picayune

  Jan 1984 - Jan 1986

  Staff Writer
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  St. Petersburg Times

  Jan 1985 - Jan 1986

  Staff Writer
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  The Dallas Morning News

  Jan 1986 - Jan 1996

  Senior Writer
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  CommunicationWorks LLC

  Jan 1996 - Jan 2001

  Senior Associate
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  Gannett News Service

  Jan 1996 - Jan 1996

  Correspondent
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  Achieve, Inc.

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2004

  Director, Public Leadership

  I led a team of three that drove advocacy for the organization's agenda of high expectations for all students, including the release of the report that launched the ongoing national conversation about students' college- and career readiness leaving high school.

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  Miami-Dade County Public Schools

  Aug 2004 - Aug 2006

  Chief Communications Officer

  I led all external and internal communications for an organization with more than 41,000 employees working at more than 400 sites serving more than 360,000 children across a 1,100-square mile county. My team significantly expanded outreach, including creating a nationally acclaimed Parent Academy and quintupling radio broadcasts to the Haitian-American community. The departments I led employed more than 120 people and commanded annual budgets of more than $10 million.

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  North Carolina New Schools

  Sept 2006 - Aug 2009

  Vice President, Advocacy and Communications

  I drove the policy and advocacy agenda of a non-profit supporting a network of more than 120 innovative high schools across the state and led business planning that envisioned the organization's successful transition to new funding sources.

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  Global Partnership Schools

  Aug 2009 - Aug 2011

  Senior Vice President

  I created a start-up's business unit to support districts and schools, developed its service delivery model to turn around chronically underperforming schools, won contracts within six months to work in three states, oversaw execution, and beat ambitious revenue targets by 10%.

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  Strategy.structure.story

  Aug 2011 - now

  Founding Consultant

  My consulting practice strategy.structure.story helps public, private and non-profit organizations work and communicate for greater impact. My clients have included data scientists at the world's largest academic clinical research organization, business leaders launching a statewide advocacy organization from the ground up, and the founders of a fast-growing education technology company rethinking its marketing.

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  GMMB

  Aug 2021 - May 2024

  Senior Vice President

  I helped people who are making a better world by improving education, the environment, public health, and space flight tell their stories. I advised clients on their response before, during, and after crises.-- Drove all non-scientific communications for national effort to track disease through wastewater, including earning coverage from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Time, PBS Newshour, NPR, Fortune, the MIT Technology Review and numerous regional and trade outlets as well as launching a website and social media.--Counseled and supported executive communications and thought leadership for the CEOs of two of the nation's largest environmental advocacy groups.--Designed crisis communications plans for a federal agency's key initiative, a commercial rocket company, and the nation's largest grassroots environmental group. Show less