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Paul Rockower is the Executive Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Phoenix.  He is formerly the Executive Director of Levantine Public Diplomacy, an independent public diplomacy organization. He has managed the U.S. Department of State’s American Music Abroad and Next Level programs in dozens of countries around the world, including many countries in conflict.  He has partnered with numerous U.S. diplomatic posts to run public diplomacy programs–in countries ranging from Algeria to Iraq to Venezuela to Zimbabwe. Rockower has worked on public diplomacy with multiple Foreign Ministries, including Israel and India, and was an International Visiting Fellow at a think tank in Taiwan. He holds a Master’s of Public Diplomacy from the University of Southern California, and a Bachelor’s from Brandeis University. 

He can be reached at: paul.rockower@jcrcphoenix.org

Read some of Rockower’s op-eds:

• Jewish Communal Public Diplomacy
• The Soft Power of our Jewish Community
• Safeguarding our Jewish Community through community relations
• When global health issues arise, solidarity is an antidote
• In the kishkes
• Fighting antisemitism with public diplomacy