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Raphael is an Associate Professor of Communication at Santa Clara University.  He earned his PhD from Northwestern and BA from Harvard. He has facilitated numerous stakeholder workshops that have brought together representatives of environmental groups, industry, and government to discuss solutions to the environmental and health issues raised by the technology industries. Raphael has chaired the boards of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC), an environmental organization, and the Jessie Smith Noyes foundation, a national funder of environmental justice organizing. Raphael advises nonprofit organizations on their communication strategy. He also has a background in community organizing on labor and affordable housing. Raphael contributed research to investigative reports produced by PBS and the Center for Investigative Reporting in San Francisco. His research focuses on environmental communication, the role of the news media in the political process, and how to design new media to engage youth in civic life.

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