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Jaime Zapata (Labor Department spokesman)

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Jaime Zapata
EducationBA, Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service
MA, media and public affairs
Alma materGeorgetown University School of Foreign Service
George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs
TitleDeputy Director, Channel Strategy and Audience Engagement
Websitehttps://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/leadership/jaime-zapata

Jaime Zapata is Deputy Director for Channel Strategy and Audience Engagement at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He is a former partner at GMMB, a public affairs marketing firm. He was previously the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Labor.[1]

He was the Reading Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives from July 2008 to June 2009, and the first ever Hispanic in this position.[2] He has also worked as Communications Director for the House Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship and as a spokesman for both the NABE and the American Federation of Teachers.

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  1. ^ "The Leadership Team". U.S. Department of Labor. Retrieved May 5, 2011.
  2. ^ "Pelosi Announces Jaime Zapata as Reading Clerk for the House of Representatives – First Hispanic Ever in This Role" (Press release). July 14, 2008.