Paul Monteiro named to guide the governor’s new company
ANNAPOLIS, MD – In the present day, Governor Wes Moore introduced the appointment of Paul Monteiro as first secretary of the newly created Division of Service and Civic Innovation.
“Paul’s nomination is the results of a months-long, nationwide search to seek out somebody with the imaginative and prescient, the expertise, the integrity, and the talent to unleash the complete potential of this new division.” stated Governor Moore. “Service breaks down variations creating unusual bonds. With Paul’s management, this primary of its sort division will encourage our youth to dream greater whereas giving again to Maryland.”
The Governor was joined by Lt. Governor Aruna Miller, and company together with Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, first lady Lt. Governor of Maryland, Tim Shriver, chair of the Particular Olympics Worldwide Board of Administrators, and John Gomperts, former director of AmeriCorps.
“Paul is a lifelong public servant who understands the which means of service. He additionally has the experience and the imaginative and prescient to place the precept of service into observe,” stated Lieutenant Governor Miller. “Paul’s management over this historic company will assist foster a tradition all through Maryland the place each particular person feels impressed to serve their group.”
“It’s my honest honor to be Governor Moore’s nominee as the primary secretary of the Division of Service and Civic Innovation,” stated Paul Monteiro. “I look ahead to main an company that will rejoice the numerous methods Marylanders are already serving, because it builds new pathways for us to do much more and bend the arc towards stronger and extra resilient communities.”
On his first full day in workplace, Governor Moore signed his second government order creating the Division of Service and Civic Innovation. The mission of the workplace is to consolidate and elevate the businesses of state authorities that help service alternatives in Maryland. This division would be the dwelling of Maryland’s Service Yr Choice, by means of which highschool graduates may have the chance to serve their communities and their state, be paid for his or her work, and be taught expertise that may serve them of their futures.
Paul Monteiro, Appearing Secretary of Division of Service and Civic Engagement
Paul Monteiro served because the Director of the USA Division of Justice Group Relations Service (CRS). Monteiro returned to CRS after serving as chief of employees to the president and assistant vp of exterior affairs at Howard College.
Monteiro beforehand served because the CRS Appearing Director from December 2015 to January 2017. Throughout his tenure, he oversaw CRS’s work supporting communities as they labored to scale back tensions and to forestall and reply to bias incidents and hate crimes.
In 2014, earlier than first becoming a member of CRS, President Barack Obama appointed Monteiro as nationwide director of AmeriCorps Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), the federal anti-poverty program established in 1965 because the home counterpart to the Peace Corps.
Beforehand, Monteiro joined the White Home employees as an affiliate director within the Workplace of Public Engagement after serving on Senator Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential marketing campaign because the deputy director for spiritual affairs. In that position, he labored on President Obama’s Accountable Fatherhood and Wholesome Households Initiative, the My Brother’s Keeper mentorship program for younger males, and as a liaison to non secular and secular perception communities in addition to ethnic teams, together with Arab American and Afghan American teams.
Monteiro additionally served as an at-large member of the Prince George’s County (Maryland) Public Colleges Board of Schooling. He holds a B.A. in historical past from the College of Maryland and a J.D. from the Howard College Faculty of Legislation.
