Zach Graves

Zach Graves is director of digital marketing and policy analyst at the R Street Institute. He is responsible for R Street’s online marketing, social media, blogger outreach, and various projects to elevate R Street’s brand in the digital space. Prior to joining R Street, Zach was manager of new media at the Cato Institute. There, he was responsible for overseeing Cato’s social media following across dozens of project feeds; outreach to bloggers and other think tanks for Cato’s policy research; and online advertising on Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube. He also served as an editor of the Cato@Liberty blog, and organizer of the #NewMediaLunch that has featured speakers from Buzzfeed, SXSW, Google, Facebook, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Heritage Foundation, Reason magazine, Twitter, Quora and more. Zach previously worked at America’s Future Foundation and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He holds a master’s from the California Institute of the Arts and a bachelor’s from the University of California at Davis.