Ricky Cortez

Ricky Cortez has worked as Director of Technology for OWN Charter School, where he also was involved with community outreach, and a teacher media training initiative. He was the Professional Services Manager at Tekserve and Volchok Consulting as manager of the onsite and help desk teams. Ricky is the founder and current Board President of LGBT Families and has worked with the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's Run/Walk. He also started Media Star Productions, a multi-media video production company, which is where he developed his technical skills using online, video, audio, graphic and social media tools to reach a global network.