Rosas and Ruiz join
“We are very fortunate to welcome both Chris and Joe to our board,” Rodriguez said in a statement. “My colleague, Laura Saldivar Luna, has done an excellent job working with members of our board to identify and recruit incredibly talented, knowledgeable and diverse candidates to our team.” “They’ve had super accomplished careers, and they also ask these brilliant questions,” Saldivar Luna said. “I think that the caliber of questions they’ll ask is really going to take us to the next level for our strategy and our impact.”is a native of Corpus Christi, but was raised in San Antonio. He has worked at Rackspace and at Clear Channel Communications before his position at Bumble, a social network app used for online dating, friendship building and professional networking.
Ruiz, a Uvalde native who was also raised in San Antonio, has worked in journalism in several places, including Washington, D.C., Seattle, Kansas City and Atlanta. He started his career at KSAT, has worked at NPR and CNN and served on the board of directors for the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
Also an avid reader of the San Antonio Report, he plans to bring his inside-the-newsroom experience to the board and help advocate for diversity not solely on race, but sexual orientation and gender, as well as be a champion for journalists’ mental health.