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Maria Caminos-Medina, EEO Officer
Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, RITA/USDOT
617/494-2452 | Maria.Caminos-Medina@dot.gov

María A. Caminos-Medina is the Equal Employment Opportunity Officer at the Volpe Center, as well as National Hispanic Employment Program Manager for the U.S. Department of Transportation's Research and Innovative Technology Administration in Washington.

She is an expert trainer/facilitator of Cultural, Diversity, and EEO Issues Seminars and has extensive experience in public speaking at the local and national levels in both the public and private sectors.

Her background includes holding concurrent positions of Director of Community Relations, Producer, Host, and Newscaster at WNAC-TV, Channel 7, the former CBS affiliate in Boston. She was responsible for producing and hosting a weekly one-hour interview program, a daily newscast in Spanish, and special assignment reports on the English newscasts. She is the recipient of an EMMY Award for a program she produced, hosted, and filmed on location in Puerto Rico.

Before joining Channel 7, María worked for the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as Director of the Bilingual Information Center. Her major efforts during this period included promoting full participation of Hispanics in the electoral process, including filing a bill (which became law in 1972) to provide for bilingual (Spanish-English) voter registration; production of multi-lingual (English-Spanish-Portuguese-Italian) election law information; and being co-editor of the State Secretary's quarterly publication "Synopsis."

María's expertise also extends to advertising, marketing, and public relations. She was General Manager of a Boston advertising agency and Manager of Operations for the U.S. and the Caribbean at a New York-based advertising agency.

María's professional and civic commitment is exemplified by her far-reaching volunteer involvement with local and national organizations during the last three decades. Among these are: League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and its National Training Institute; Religious Ed. Teacher, and Choir Member at St. Mark the Evangelist Parish, Londonderry, NH; Cambridge College Board of Trustees; Region I Director, National Image Inc.; the Massachusetts Governor's Advisory Council; Chair, New England Council of Hispanic Employment Program Managers; the Minority Opportunity and Women's Opportunity Committees; North Atlantic Region Council of Equal Opportunity Officers; Boston Partners in Education International Cooperation and Understanding Chair, District 33K, Lions Club International; National Council of Hispanic Employment Program Managers.

Born in El Salvador, María has lived in the U.S. since her boarding school days at Newton's Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, Newton, MA. She holds a Master's Degree in Education with a Major in Management. Her greatest source of pride is being the mother of five grown children, and grandmother of ten. María and her Colombia-born Civil Engineer husband, Edgard, live in New Hampshire.