User:Artemio armenta

Summary Artemio Armenta is with the Office of Public Affairs/Media Relations at the California Department of Motor Vehicles.

Artemio was previously Government Affairs Associate at the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) and was based in PPIC’s Sacramento Center. Before coming to PPIC, he was a senior news & political producer for Univision. Prior to that, he served as a congressional intern in Washington, D.C., through the Leon & Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy. He was also an executive fellow at the California Environmental Protection Agency.

He holds a B.A. with a double concentration in international relations (political economy and development) and Hispanic literature and culture from Brown University.

Expanded Artemio Armenta has over ten years of combined professional experience in governmental affairs, communications & media. He is with the Office of Public Affairs/Media Relations at the California Department of Motor Vehicles. Previously, he was Government Affairs Associate at the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC).

At Univision he managed media and press coverage for five years. As a Senior Political Producer, Artemio produced Univision's only statewide, political talk show program Voz y Voto (Voice and Vote). He is fluent in reading, writing, and speaking Spanish.

Artemio graduated with academic honors from Brown University. Brown is an independent, Ivy League institution in the U.S. He double-concentrated in International Relations and Hispanic Studies.

As a Congressional Intern through the Leon and Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy, he interned at the Washington, D.C. office of the late Congressman Robert T. Matsui. He also served as an Executive Fellow in the Capital Fellows Program and had a one-year job placement at (Cal/EPA). Artemio also worked at the Smithsonian Institution Office of Public Affairs.