John Tomlinson
John Tomlinson is Senior Manager, Communications at Synergos, a nonprofit organization addressing global poverty and social injustice through collaborative processes. He leads planning, production, and distribution of information about Synergos and learning from its research activities. Prior to focusing on communications, JT helped administer several of Synergos’ programs, including supporting the creation of grantmaking foundations in Africa and Latin America and managing a program of exchanges between nonprofit groups in the United States and developing countries. He also coordinated policy research and outreach on partnership approaches to development problems and on cooperation between grantmaking foundations and foreign aid agencies. He first joined the staff of Synegos in 1991.
JT has an MS in library and information science from the Pratt Institute, an MA in international relations from Yale University (where he was a Sasakawa Young Leadership Fellow), and a BA in East Asian studies from Harvard College. He has taught English at the South China University of Technology and been a lecturer at the Guangdong Province Technical Cadre Advanced Training Institute, both in Guangzhou, China.
