Profile

Max Benavidez

Max Benavidez has more than 15 years experience in strategic communications, public policy development, workshop facilitation and media relations. He served as the head of communications at UCLA (1999-2002) and as the director of media relations at Caltech (1992-1999).  He is a frequent speaker on public policy issues and leadership development and serves as a communications advisor for executives in the non-profit and for-profit sectors. His clients have included the Annie E. Casey Foundation, California Community Foundation and Claremont Graduate University. Benavidez is a former essayist for the Los Angeles Times, a former TV/radio producer (KNBC-TV and KCRW-NPR) and taught at the Chavez Center at UCLA from 1994-2002.  He is currently the president of Public Communications Strategies, and the Director of the Polanco Fellowship for the California Latino Caucus Institute.