Alberto González, Jr.

Senior Advisor for External Engagement, Food and Nutrition Service, USDA | Washington, D.C.

Alberto A. Gonzalez, Jr., MPP currently serves as senior advisor for external engagement at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS). Alberto’s role at FNS involves engaging healthcare, food, nutrition, and anti-hunger partners on FNS’s more than sixteen federal nutrition assistance programs and the USDA’s food and nutrition security initiative. Previously, Alberto was senior project manager for Health Policy at UnidosUS, where he worked on health, nutrition, and anti-hunger policy and led a federal legislative campaign to pass the Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2020. Before joining UnidosUS, he worked as a senior state advocacy manager at Community Catalyst in Boston, MA. He also held roles at the California Immigrant Policy Center and the California State Assembly. Alberto has a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a bachelor’s degree in political science and American studies from the University of California, Berkeley. (Washington, D.C.)