Pedro C. Moreno
Pedro C. Moreno is an author, artist, and speaker currently living with his wife Rael in Southern Spain. They both help displaced persons from the Greater Middle East with their housing needs, micro enterprises, as well as facilitating a class called Peacemaking Through Art .
He has served in the private sector as well as the Federal and State governments, managing large institutions. His extensive experience includes work on behalf of persons with disabilities, mental health and substance abuse issues, promotion of girls education internationally, working to help Veterans get treatment, training and employment, fighting trafficking in persons, supporting healthy families, combating illegal drug use among youth, facilitating the re-entry of ex-prisoners into society, helping with refugee resettlement, working for religious and ethnic reconciliation, and generally helping marginalized and low income individuals and communities get mainstreamed.
Moreno has served in the private and public sectors for 30 plus years, including as Deputy Commissioner for Rehabilitation in the Mississippi Department of Corrections, Deputy Secretary at the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, as Deputy Director for Operations at the Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities, Director of the Social Inclusion Hub at the US Agency for International Development (USAID), Principal Deputy Director at the Administration for Children and Families (HHS), Counselor to the Deputy Director for Demand Reduction at The White House Drug Policy Office (ONDCP, working on demand reduction among youth), Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Administration for Children and Families), Prison Fellowship International, The Rutherford Institute, the Social Emergency Fund (in cooperation with the World Bank), and other banks.
Moreno served as a United States Government delegate to the Executive Board of UNICEF, was a delegate at the International Conference on Population and Development, attended and spoke at the NGO Forum of the UN Conference on Women in Beijing, helped negotiate the outcome document for the UN General Assembly Special Session on Children (New York), and was a delegate to the WHO-UNICEF Consultation on Child/Adolescent Health (Stockholm). He actively promoted responsible and involved fatherhood programs (i.e., fathers respecting their wives, helping at home, and nurturing their children) during his 6 plus years at the Administration for Children and Families (HHS).
In addition to a Law Degree from the University of San Andres, Moreno received a Master’s in international law and economic development from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and completed the Specialization in Negotiation and Dispute Resolution at Harvard Law School. Moreno has traveled in 68 countries on all continents and also speaks Spanish and French.
Moreno has authored numerous articles, some of them published in the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and other newspapers in several countries. He is the Editor of the Handbook on Religious Freedom Around the World (TRI Press, used by University of Virginia website) , and a contributing author to a book in the Religion and Human Rights Series published by ORBIS (1999). He has been interviewed by the Washington Post, BBC, the New York Times (Madrid Bureau), Voice of America, Australian Broadcasting Co., UN Radio, Washington Times, Arab Times (Kuwait), Sekaj Nippo (Tokyo), and appeared on C-SPAN.
