Marcus Escobedo, MPA

Vice President, Communications and Senior Program Officer

Marcus R. Escobedo, MPA, is Vice President, Communications and Senior Program Officer at The John A. Hartford Foundation where he develops and implements the organization’s communications strategy and oversees a grants portfolio of communications and special projects. He joined the foundation in 2006, and as a program officer, he has managed grant initiatives to improve emergency departments and surgical care for older adults, in addition to academic geriatrics training programs for specialist physicians.

Mr. Escobedo's career has focused on bringing about social change for underserved and marginalized populations. He previously worked at the Women’s Foundation of California, a statewide community-based foundation that invests in women’s and girls’ organizations in the areas of health, economic development, safety, and leadership. Prior to that, he was Resource Development and Communications Coordinator for Communities in Schools of Georgia, part of a nationwide network of nonprofit organizations connecting community resources to local k-12 schools. Mr. Escobedo taught elementary school in Oakland, California through the Teach for America program.

He currently serves on the board of Grantmakers in Aging and is a Steering Committee member for the Aging PCOR Learning Collaborative, which promotes the engagement of older adults in all aspects of research. He served for six years as a board member of Hispanics in Philanthropy, a national non-profit organization dedicated to increasing philanthropic resources to Latino communities. He served as a member of the Community Advisory Board of the Geriatric Emergency Department Innovations through Workforce, Informatics and Structural Enhancements (GEDI-WISE) project at Mount Sinai Medical Center. He has previously served on the board of One Stop Senior Services in the upper west side of Manhattan, as well as the Regional Health Equity Council as part of the Office of Minority Health’s National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities (Region II).

Mr. Escobedo received bachelor’s degrees in sociology and communications from the University of Texas at Austin and he earned his master’s of public administration in public and nonprofit management and policy at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service.