Nishith Bhatt

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Senior Advisor

Nishith (Nick) Bhatt is a Senior Advisor at Cause Communications, where he provides leadership on a variety of impact projects that span the philanthropic and public affairs sectors. He also contributes to Cause’s capacity building initiatives as a facilitator for Cause’s training programs.

Nick has over 20 years of experience in communications, marketing, branding, and development in the social, public, and private sectors. His social-sector work includes leadership roles at the RAND Corporation, where he oversaw strategic communication and PR efforts for the nation’s largest health research program, and at the American Heart Association, where he oversaw communications, cause marketing, and media relations in the Southern California media markets. He has also served on several non-profit boards and currently advises two non-profit health-related organizations.

In the public sector, Nishith has served as Chief of Public Affairs and Development with the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), where he led internal and external communications, media, and public relations, marketing, and fundraising activities for the nation’s largest child welfare system. He also served as Deputy Communications Director to United States Senator Patty Murray of Washington State, for whom he wrote speeches and worked as part of a team that ran her D.C. and Washington State press operations. Nishith is a former Recreation and Parks commissioner for the City of Santa Monica and currently serves on Santa Monica College’s General Advisory Board.

Nishith received his B.A. with honors in English from the University of Maryland, College Park; a certificate in the study of literature from Oxford University; an M.A. in English from the University of California, Irvine; and is in the final stage of his dissertation for his Ph.D. in English from UCLA. In his spare time, he enjoys yoga, sailing, golf, and being cracked up by his wife, daughter, and dog.

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