Carlos Pedraza is the Chief Technology Architect for SEA Change, an organization formed to bridge existing networks, and support newly created networks, of social entrepreneurs. SEA Change serves as a magnet for those individual social entrepreneurs who are working alone and are not formally associated with any particular network.
Previously, he was Training and Technical Assistance Officer at the Corporation for National Service, the federal agency that operates AmeriCorps, the national and community service program established by Congress in 1993.
As a training officer, Carlos directed the Corporation's development of the Web-Based Reporting System (WBRS), a national Internet database that tracks the accomplishments and financial
status of AmeriCorps grantees. He also directed efforts by national organizations to provide training and technical assistance to national service programs around the country, including development of the Corporation's first online and interactive training products.
Carlos previously worked as a teacher, a reporter for the Associated Press, deputy press secretary for the governor of Washington state, and as a trainer in organizational development. He is a graduate in journalism and history of the University of Montana, and did his graduate work in gifted education and curriculum development at the University of Southern Maine.
Carlos brings to SEA Change his experience in building an infrastructure on which social entrepreneurs can rely to build their capacity and seek resources for in novation. That experience includes working collaboratively with hundreds of non-profit organizations to use technology to improve their management and accountability, as well as managing cadres of consultants providing technical assistance to those agencies.
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