Statesman Texas Social Media Awards
The Austin American Statesman rolled out the digital carpet on March 14 to honor 25 Social Media Award Winners. Our engagement Capitan, Armando Rayo was among the list.
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BIO: Mando Rayo’s work spans multiple roles, and social media is a major instrument in this toolkit. As vice president of engagement at Cultural Strategies, Mando offers clients insights into the Hispanic community as well as strategic and effective ideas that enable clients to enlist more Hispanics to their cause. As director of community engagement at United Way Capital Area/Hands On Central Texas, Mando specializes in creating opportunities for community engagement, with a focus on leadership development and social innovations. In both these roles, he’s developed innovative cultural programming for a variety of clients, including MPower Foundation/RISE Conference, Tate Austin Hahn, Lance Armstrong Foundation, Goodwill Industries of Central Texas, CASA of Travis County, The Cipher-Austin’s Hip-Hop Project, ACTIVE Life and the Greater Austin Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. Social media allows exponential outreach for his mission by empowering like-minded community members with information they use to build this community together. His alter ego, as Austin’s resident taco ambassador for TacoJournalism.com, brings flavor and fun to his work.
Judges’ Comments: Mando Rayo is all about doing good work and eating good tacos. His day job is to use technology to build support for the United Way, but he’s also a creator of TacoJournalism.com, a great site dedicated to finding Austin’s best food wrapped in a tortilla.
Congratulations Mando!
