Adrian Arizmendi
HE/HIM
Adrian is a producer who has worked in news media and news-adjacent media, with a strong emphasis on lending voice to people who are often marginalized and underrepresented in media.
At AHSHAY, Adrian is the public information specialist who is leading AHSHAY’s Narrative Strategies initiative. He produces the content for our digital channels and events including videos, graphics and animations.
Prior to AHSHAY, Adrian was a digital producer at the international debate show, Doha Debates. He has also worked as a writer at pre-Sinclair news app Circa, a producer at Al Jazeera’s AJ+ and as a creative manager at a social polling product of Advance Publications known as The Tylt.
Adrian holds a degree in U.S. History from the University of California, Davis.
“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
― James Baldwin
“They could not put the determining divine principle at sufficient distance from themselves; the whole pantheon was only a means by which the determining forces could be kept at a distance from man’s earthly being, so that human lungs could have air.“
—Franz Kafka letter to Max Brod, 1920