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Emiliano Reyes (born March 31, 1984) is an American business executive, humanitarian activist, and Wikipedia author.
Early life and education
Reyes was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Kathleen McBride, a Swedish-American journalist, and Alexander Reyes, a bureaucrat and former activist of Mexican and Yaqui Indian origin. He grew up primarily in Berkeley, California and attended Berkeley High School with actor Eli Marienthal and poets Chinaka Hodge and Rafael Casal. He attended Fordham University where he graduated summa cum laude. In 2006, he was inducted into the exclusive Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society, the highest honors for business students that is equivalent to Phi Beta Kappa honors. From 2008 to 2010 he attended the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna where he graduated cum laude. He is believed to be the first Mexican-American to be accepted into the exclusive school.
Career
Beginning in 2005, Reyes began working and volunteering in international foundations, organizations, and institutions. In 2005, he worked with the Humanitarian Group the Free Burma Rangers along the border of Burma and Thailand. In 2006, he interned at the Clinton Foundation where he primarily handled President Bill Clinton's scheduling requests. Later in the year, he was awarded the Pamela Harriman Fellowship and worked in the Economic Section of the American Embassy of London under Ambassador Robert Tuttle. In 2006, he appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews.
After graduation, he worked briefly at Young and Rubicam in the company's Latin American subsidiary The Bravo Group. In 2007, he was awarded The Congressman Jose Serrano Scholarship for Diplomatic Studies under the veil of the Fulbright Fellowship to attend the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. While there, he interned at the United Nations assisting the then Under-Secretary-General Antonio Maria Costa. He is an expert on the Asian Private Sector and has published articles for international encyclopedias on the subject.
Activism
Reyes has been involved in a number of different humanitarian initiatives over the past decade through a number of different projects.
- 2010 Haitian earthquake
In April 2010, he served as a director of the Diplomatic Academy Haiti Initiative which raised money for the children in Haiti after the 2010 Haitian earthquake.
- Filmmaking
From 2006 to the present, Reyes has been actively writing screenplays across a number of genres. In 2012, he was a finalist at the Beverly Hills Film Festival and the Phoenix Film Festival.
- The Tomorrow Project
In 2012, Reyes founded the Tomorrow Project: the independent campaign for President Barack Obama. The project was a way to energize the national voters that were primarily members of the millennial generation who were unemployed, amassed in student debt and felt lost due to the constraints of the 2008 financial crisis. The project centered on a film entitled "Tomorrow" which was a fictional account of a 21-year-old Barack Obama on that night when he receives the revelation that he will become president. It also depicts his visions of events that will occur in the future, such as the September 11th Terrorist Attacks and the Iraq War. The film was to provide millennial voters with a personal connect with Barack Obama citing that he went through a similar crisis of fate that they are experiencing now.
Personal life
Emiliano is received his Masters in Business Administration at Emory University's Goizueta Business School in May 2014. He was in a relationship with Czech model and journalist Katerina Kombercova.
