Regina Barboza, Senior Associate

Regina Barboza has been a communications professional for more than 15 years and has focused on a variety of issue areas including technology, online advertising, e-commerce, consumer, financial services, business-to-business, healthcare, media, entertainment, and education. For the past several years she has focused on philanthropy.

Regina managed media and communications efforts for the New York Regional Association of Grantmakers, where she worked in support of tsunami and Hurricane Katrina relief on behalf of its members, including Pfizer, Citibank, the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. In the higher education sector, she has written articles in support of Columbia University's $4 billion capital fundraising campaign. Additionally, she has served as consultant to the Coalition for New Philanthropy and the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation.

For five years, Regina served as vice president in Fleishman-Hillard New York’s Management Communications Group, which primarily focused on corporate positioning for companies. She supported IBM's Internet Division, ran Microsoft's Eastern Region anti-piracy campaign for two years and worked on a variety of accounts including The Wall Street Journal, pressplay online music venture, Columbia University's Fathom.com, Intergraph Corporation, Sony PlayStation, Yahoo!, Baan, KPMG, and AOL.

Regina has secured positive coverage for a number of clients on CNBC and Bloomberg and in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Investor's Business Daily, Chronicle of Higher Education, Chronicle of Philanthropy and Philanthropy News Digest.

She has taught corporate communications at City College of the City University of New York and holds a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelor's degree from Boston University.