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Paul Crespo

Part-Time Fellowship-2003

Project: "Dueling Allegiances: Multiculturalism vs Patriotism after 9/11"


Bio:

Paul is a former officer in the US Marine Corps and Managing Director of Crespo Communications, LLC focusing on public relations, public affairs and advocacy. He also is President of Civica Americana, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit foundation that promotes integration, patriotism, good citizenship and entrepreneurship in the Hispanic community, and explains America's constitutional system throughout Latin America. In 2010 Paul ran for Congress as a Tea Party Republican in South Florida and is currently running for the Florida Statehouse. Bilingual in English and Spanish, he was an editorial writer and columnist for The Miami Herald and has written for the Washington Times, NewsMax, American Legion magazine and other venues. He also co-hosted a daily Spanish-language radio show for Univision Radio and taught U.S. politics at the University of Miami. Paul has appeared often as a conservative political commentator on CNN, Fox News, Sky News, Telemundo and Univision. As a Marine he served in combat arms units and staff positions in the U.S., Europe and aboard ships in the Far East. As an intelligence officer and military attaché Paul also was posted at U.S. embassies in the Balkans, Persian Gulf and Latin America. A graduate of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, he also holds a master's degree in War Studies from the University of London and a second master's in International Relations from Cambridge University in the U.K.