Experience

The LBJ School of Public Affairs

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director for Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

  • Jan 2022 - Present

  Delgado currently oversees the the Office of Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Appointed as the inaugural director, he also serves on the dean’s leadership team. In Delgado’s first year leading the graduate school’s day-to-day DEI efforts, he re-established the School’s Public Policy and International Affairs Program (PPIA) for undergraduate students across the United States traditionally underrepresented in public service leadership positions and public policy graduate schools. Furthermore, Delgado formulated and executed yield events that culminated in a 10% increase in BIPOC students attending the LBJ School (30% to 40%). For these programs, the LBJ School was awarded the NASPAA Diversity award in 2022, the highest recognition of diversity & inclusion accomplishment by the accrediting body for policy schools and peer institutions. Delgado is also responsible for key programming and initiatives, which include: - Facilitating the school’s DEI Committee, comprised of students, faculty & staff, which is developing a marketing partnership with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute and reviewing course codes to better serve international students seeking work visas. - Establishing JEDI Office Hours and anonymous reporting for student concerns. - Working with staff to ensure DEI drives admissions, communications & programming. - Spearheading town halls and listening sessions to assess campus climate and work with student affinity groups to strengthen belonging across the school. - Initiating collaborations between students, faculty, and staff from diverse identities and policy background to produce engaging, relevant, and culturally competent programming for the school, such as the Barbara Jordan National Forum.



Austin Community Foundation

• United States
• Philanthropic Fundraising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Program Manager, Hispanic Impact Fund

  • Mar 2019 - Dec 2021

  The Hispanic Impact Fund is a signature program of the Austin Community Foundation, with four strategic impact areas: early childhood education, health & wellness, job skills & entrepreneurship, and leadership development. Delgado oversaw the operations of the fund, which included fundraising, grantmaking design & facilitation, community engagement, and executing the vision of the fund’s steering committee. Durning his tenure with the fund, Delgado boosted the fund’s total yearly grant awards from $180k to six organizations in 2019 to $365k to 28 organizations in 2022, a 102% increase as the fund awarded its one-millionth dollar in 2022. Delgado pioneered the implementation of equitable grant practices for the fund, which included removing the letter of inquiry process for applicants, the transition from project-based to general-operating funding, the inclusion and payment of community reviewers to assist the fund’s membership in the grants review and deliberation process, and the compensation of all organizations invited to interview with the grants committee. Additionally, Delgado convened strategy lab sessions with 120 fund investors, grantees, and community members to ensure the fund remained data-informed and community-led. As part of this process, Delgado convened and collaborated with community stakeholders to refine the fund’s impact areas for place-based grantmaking and published a status report to disseminate updates. Furthermore, Delgado innovated fundraising for the Hispanic Impact Fund during the pandemic through the use of strategic social media campaigns highlighting community needs and voice. He also fundraised for larger foundation efforts, such as the $8MM All Together ATX pandemic relief fund, and worked to ensure the grants selection committees for such relief funds represented communities and individuals most impacted by the pandemic in Central Texas.


U.S. House of Representatives
• United States
• Legislative Offices
• 700 & Above Employee
• JJ Pickle Congressional Fellow & Graduate Intern, Office of US Congressman Gene Green (TX-29)

  • May 2017 - Aug 2017


Baylor College of Medicine

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Staff & Project Lead, Center for Medical Ethics & Health Policy

  • Feb 2014 - Feb 2017

  Delgado managed the development, program implementation, data management, and dissemination of findings for a $1.3MM Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) grant exploring the use of decision aids for LVAD patients. Delgado worked with clinical and institutional stakeholders to expand the one-site federal research study to five sites, spanning four states. Over the course of the research study, Delgado honed his use of qualitative interviewing to gather data and build research and evaluation tools. Furthermore, he worked with creative consultants to draft the patient decision aid and worked with his coworkers to produce accompanying patient and caregiver videos, which served as the study intervention. At the end of the project, Delgado was cited in 12 abstracts and journal publications. - Decision aid materials and videos developed for the project can be viewed at the following link: www.lvaddecisionaid.com - Delgado’s peer-reviewed journal publications for this role can be viewed at the following link: www.bit.ly/Delgado_GoogleScholar



Legacy Community Health

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Healthcare Quality Analyst

  • Jan 2013 - Feb 2014

  Legacy Community Health is the largest federally qualified health clinic (FQHC) in the state of Texas. Durning his time at Legacy, Delgado championed clinical compliance audits and site visits linked to state and federal grant partners, such as DSHS for obstetrics services and Ryan White for HIV care & case management. Furthermore, Delgado reported on key clinical quality measures to the clinic’s board of directors and developed performance improvement plans with clinical departments if data indicated needs for improvement while the organization transitioned from paper charts to an electronic health record. Finally, Delgado worked with staff to perform risk management reviews of clinic facilities and developed a pathway for patients with previous onsite behavioral issues to regain access to clinical services.