Geronimo Rodriguez

Geronimo Rodriguez serves as Vice President of Diversity and Community Outreach at Seton Family of Hospitals in Austin, Texas, and an Adjunct Faculty member at St. Edward's University where he teaches Mass Media and Politics. He has over 15 years of public service experience advising federal, state, and local officials and helping to manage presidential, gubernatorial, and attorney general campaigns. From 2001 to 2006, he was with Leonard Frost Levin Van Court & Marsh, P.C., in Austin. From 1999 to 2001, Rodriguez was Counsel to the Solicitor at the U.S. Department of Labor. Earlier he served in the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs at the U.S. Department of Labor, in the White House Office of Congressional Affairs and Presidential Personnel during the Clinton administration, and in the Office of the Texas Attorney General. Currently Rodriguez is Chair of the Hispanic Bar Association of Austin Foundation, a member of the Board of Directors of the Texas Observor, the Texas Advisory Board of Environmental Defense, and a member of the American Swiss Foundation and the Embassy of Spain Young Leaders' Conferences. He graduated from St. Edward's University with a bachelor's degree, cum laude, attended the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and received his law degree from the University of Texas School of Law.