For 20 years, Calvin Dark has built his reputation as an insightful and engaging communications strategist, analyst, and commentator on US & international affairs for TV, radio, print, and online media.Calvin is a NC School of Science & Mathematics and Duke University graduate who was a Fulbright Scholar to Morocco and does media appearances, analyses, and commentaries in English, Arabic, French, and Spanish. Calvin has authored or been quoted as an expert in dozens of articles and segments in US and international media, including Al Jazeera, CGTN, RT, BBC Afrique, Africanews, Medi1 TV, 2M Morocco, Channels TV/TVC Nigeria, HispanTV, UNO TV, Citizen TV Kenya, Burkina Info TV, SABC South Africa, among others.Calvin is president of RC Communications, a branding and crisis communications firm in Washington, DC, where he advises his high-level clients, from US government agencies and foreign heads of state to human rights advocates and multinational corporations, on crisis management, media relations, and communications strategies.Before founding RC Communications in 2014, Calvin held several leadership roles where he advised foreign governments, embassies, international organizations, foundations and corporations. Calvin has managed multimillion-dollar trade & investment promotional campaigns for the Kingdom of Morocco & the Republic of Ecuador, the award winning “Free Them Now” campaign to liberate Moroccan POWs in Algeria (International Public Relations Association) as well as successful Millennium Challenge Corporation campaigns for Togo and Burkina Faso. He has also been an elections advisor in Mali, Indonesia, Gabon, and Benin.Calvin is a member of the Duke University Library Advisory Board (2023-2026) and served as secretary of the Board of Directors of Fulbright Association National Capital Chapter. Calvin is also a recognized researcher and author on African-American history, focusing on his family in central North Carolina. He has written numerous articles and essays that have appeared in the North Carolina Folklore Journal, the Journal of American Historians, Duke Magazine, among others.
Listed skills include Strategic Communications, Social Media, International Relations, Media Relations, and 19 others.