Rob Paral is a writer, analyst and communicator with many years of experience working in community development, human services, and immigrant integration. Rob is principal of Rob Paral & Associates, a consulting firm that helps philanthropic foundations, service organizations and government agencies understand the communities they serve through applied research methods.
Prior to establishing Rob Paral & Associates in 1998, Rob was Research Director at the Latino Institute in Chicago, and was the Senior Research Associate of the Washington, DC office of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials. He has held research fellowships at the American Immigration Law Foundation, the Institute for Latino Studies at Notre Dame University, and Roosevelt University in Chicago; he has been a visiting lecturer at DePaul University. Rob is currently a Non-Resident Fellow in the Global Cities Program of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and is a lecturer in the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago.