Green Party Speakers Bureau

Alan Kobrin

 

Office or Campaign experience

Co-Chair, Outreach Committee of the Green Party of the United States (GPUS); Spokesperson, Green Party of Florida; Member, International Committee of GPUS

Available to speak on the following subjects:
Green Vision For America
"Selling" Green Party Concept
The Green Narrative -- Why We Need it and How it Relates to You
Need and Relevance of Green Party Growth to Community Needs
War / Occupation / Peace
The Imperative Of Impeachment
Media / Information - How They Keep Us In A Political Corral
Healthcare - Why Single-Payer?
"Third Party" / Electoral Reform Issues
Fair Trade vs. "Free" Trade

Bio
Alan Kobrin is currently co-chair of the Outreach Committee of the Green Party of the United States and a spokesperson for the Green Party of Florida. He was state coordinator of the 2000 Ralph Nader campaign in Florida and was a founding member of the Miami-Dade Green Party. A member of the GPUS International Committee, Kobrin was one of two GPUS representatives to the 2003 World Social Forum in Porto Alegre and to the Hemispheric Federation of Green Parties in Curitiba in 2004. He has served on the GPUS Steering Committee and coordinated GPUS activities for the 2003 FTAA Ministerial Meeting in Miami. He has co-founded three peace/civic action groups in the Miami area.

Kobrin has done radio/TV interviews, hosted a bilingual radio program and speaks English, Spanish and Portuguese. As part of his work on the International Committee, he has translated documents and interpreted for interviews, including for Marco Antonio Mroz of the Brazilian Green Party who attended the GPUS 2007 meeting in Reading.

Kobrin operates an Internet consultancy and develops creative courses, campaigns and training projects for multicultural learning environments. He has a postgraduate specialization in Visual Anthropology from the University Catolica de Goias (Goiania, Brazil), master's work in Communications at Florida International University, and a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Kenyon College (Gambier, Ohio).

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