Michael C. Camuñez, Executive Producer

Michael C. Camuñez is President and CEO of Monarch Global Strategies, a binational business advisory firm with an emphasis on Mexico and Latin America. He was Assistant Secretary of Commerce in the Obama administration and also served as the President’s representative on international economic issues to the U.S. Helsinki Commission. Michael is a trustee of both Stanford University and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and he is a director of the Pacific Council on International Policy and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Having experienced poverty growing up in a single-parent household in New Mexico, Michael has been a life-long, passionate advocate for the poor, for children and youth, and for national and community service, which he continued through his work as a director of City Year Los Angeles and the Center for Law & Social Policy. Early in his career, Michael was one of the key architects of the AmeriCorps program, through which over a million young people have been able to serve their country.