John Aravosis
| John Aravosis | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 27, 1963 United States |
| Occupation | lawyer |
| Known for | www.AMERICAblog.com |
John Aravosis (born November 27, 1963) is an American Democratic political consultant, journalist, civil rights advocate, and blogger. Aravosis, an attorney who lives in New York City, is the founder and executive editor of AMERICAblog.
Aravosis has a joint law degree and master's degree in foreign service from Georgetown, where he studied under former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. He also has an undergraduate degree in Rhetoric from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Diplôme Supérieur from the Cours de Civilisation Française of the Sorbonne, in Paris, France.
Aravosis worked on Capitol Hill in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a foreign policy adviser for Ted Stevens, a Republican senator from Alaska, before becoming a Democrat. He subsequently worked at the World Bank, the Children's Defense Fund, as the US Politics editor at About.com, and as a stringer for The Economist. In 1997, Aravosis started, and still runs, his own political Internet consulting business. He has a speciality in using the Internet for political advocacy and international development that has brought him to Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
In 2004, Aravosis launched AMERICAblog, a progressive news blog dealing in politics (because, according to its masthead, "a great nation deserves the truth"). In March 2015, Aravosis announced that he was leaving blogging, taking a new job at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and relinquishing his role at AMERICAblog. In 2016, Aravosis returned to his role as executive editor of AMERICAblog.
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