Iván Román Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc

Directed and managed programs and staff for a 1,600-member non-profit association with annual budget ranging from $1.3 to $2.1 million. Worked hands-on with 6 to 13 staffers to produce NAHJ’s annual conventions; advocate for media diversity and fair media public policy; organize training for professional and aspiring journalists; award $1 million+ in scholarships; recruit/monitor community advocates for improved news coverage; supervise research on lack of coverage and inclusion of Hispanics on national TV news; other programs.• Served as advocate and NAHJ spokesman on media-related issues on English- and Spanish-language broadcast outlets and publications. Topics included: negative impact of unfair immigration coverage; fight for fair and open Internet for people of color; link between poor coverage of race/ethnicity and discrimination.• Directed fundraising from corporations, foundations, individuals, and special events that brought in more than $13 million over eight years.• Directed and implemented communications. Among tasks: plan navigation and produce content for revamped website; grow social media to a network of 5,000-plus people; produce and/or edit reports and press releases in English and Spanish; draft marketing materials and implement social media for events and advocacy work.• Intensified advocacy among Latino journalists, colleagues of all ethnic groups, and national Latino groups for fair media public policy. Engaged officials at Capitol Hill and the FCC on preserving a free and open Internet, opposing increased media consolidation, other issues.• Strengthened internships and training for 600-plus mostly Latino journalism students at NAHJ conventions, and by creating unique paid internships at Spanish-language newspapers to cover local communities and Hispanic affairs.• Supervised expansion of NAHJ’s Parity Project, which created a network of Latinos across the U.S. to monitor news and work with local media to improve coverage.

San Juan, Puerto Rico

A wide-ranging beat covering Puerto Rico’s economic issues and intense politics that spur street protests in the tens of thousands, to other news and features exploring growing civic environmental protection efforts and people’s complex notions about race and identity. Included assignments and enterprise work throughout the Caribbean. Also produced weekly perspective/feature column in English and in Spanish on Puerto Rico politics and culture published in the daily newspaper and in the El Sentinel Spanish weekly. Coverage highlights: the years-long protests to end U.S. Navy bombing exercises on Puerto Rico’s Vieques island; the violent general strike by the opposition to Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez; the detentions of enemy combatants in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; the benefits and vast inequalities of a booming economy throughout the Dominican Republic.

San Francisco, California

Directed and managed programs and staff for this journalism education, mentorship and diversity advocacy center, housed in SFSU's Journalism Department.• Expanded the NewsWatch Project, in which African American, Hispanic, Asian American, Native American and gay and lesbian journalists and editors joined forces to research and advocate for diversity in news media and improved coverage of communities of color.• Founded and hired staff for the Community Press Consortium, the nation’s first training project for journalists in the ethnic press, which increased the visibility of the San Francisco Bay Area’s ethnic print media and launched collaborations with colleagues from mainstream media outlets.• Supervised semester-long coaching and mentoring programs for 50-75 SFSU journalism students; implemented career resources and training activities for the journalism department.• Marketed SFSU journalism students nationally to prospective recruiters seeking interns or new hires at newspapers, magazines, national and local radio and television outlets.

Miami, Florida

Morning daily in Spanish, 110,000 circulation. Intense beat reporting on the South Florida region’s Nicaraguan, Puerto Rican and Dominican communities; their complex economic, exile and migration issues; their growth and local community development; and their interconnected local/international politics and culture. Created the newspaper’s national Hispanic affairs beat during the 1992 presidential campaign and produced a weekly column about the Nicaraguan community. Also covered breaking news involving Cuban exile politics and Dade County electoral politics. Assignments abroad included the political transition in Nicaragua after the contra war; the Cuban rafter crisis of 1994; an earthquake in Costa Rica; various stories about Puerto Rico politics and its political status; and a series on the impact of the AIDS bridge between Puerto Rico and New York City.

Miami, Florida

Intense micro-local beat reporting on almost all of the Miami metropolitan area’s inner city and its African American, Puerto Rican, Cuban and Dominican communities for a section published twice a week. Monitored and wrote about the communities’ dynamic immigration issues; integration into U.S. society amidst the area’s quickly-shifting demographics; the struggle to rise from poverty; clashes between community politics and city government; and heightened racial and ethnic conflict, among other news and feature topics. Wrote occasionally for the local news section and was one of the main reporters who covered Miami’s civil disturbances in 1989.

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Morning daily, 35,000 circulation. General assignment reporter covering politics, police, education, health, government, courts, and other topics. Assignments abroad included an award-winning series on the smuggling of immigrants from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico in small boats.

Rochester, New York

Evening daily, 102,000 circulation. As the newspaper’s first minority affairs reporter, created a beat breaking ground on economic, political and social issues affecting African American, Hispanic, immigrant, and gay and lesbian communities; political splinter groups, Latin American advocacy organizations; the sanctuary movement; and certain service agencies in the city. Also shaped and led the newspaper’s outreach to these communities via town hall meetings and communications and networking initiatives.

Knight Wallace Journalism Fellows

Studies in Latin American history and politics, cultural anthropology, Caribbean music and dance history, economic globablization.

B.A. In Journalism, Journalism, Communications

Completed bachelor's degree at Temple University to pursue journalism after transferring from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.

Business Administration, Economics, Communications

Three years of studies in business, economics and communications before transferring to Temple University.