John Tomlinson
John Tomlinson is Senior Manager, Communications at Synergos, a nonprofit organization addressing global poverty and social injustice through collaborative processes. His work includes production and distribution of information about Synergos, its programs and learning from its research activities in print and electronic formats. He designed and manages Synergos’ website, assists staff in improving the quality of their communications and helps plan and conduct a variety of outreach events. He has held a variety of positions at Synergos since 1991, including Communications Consultant and Associate Director, Public Affairs.
Prior to focusing on communications at Synergos, Mr. Tomlinson helped administer a number of the organization’s programs, including supporting successful efforts to establish grantmaking foundations in Southern Africa and Latin America, and managing a program of exchanges between nonprofit groups in the United States and developing countries about community-based efforts to overcome poverty. He also coordinated policy research and outreach on partnership approaches to development problems and on cooperation between grantmaking foundations and official development assistance agencies.
He is a graduate student in information and library science at Pratt Institute and holds degrees from Harvard College and from Yale University, where he was a Sasakawa Young Leadership Fellow. 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.
