Rob Paral
Senior Research Specialist
About
Rob Paral is a demographic and public policy consultant with specialties in immigrant, Latino and Asian populations; community needs for health and human service programs; and Midwestern demographic change.
Rob Paral is a Research Specialist with the Great Cities Institute. His principal duties include assisting Governor JB Pritzker’s Office of New Americans in implementing policies designed to support the contributions of immigrants in the state of Illinois.
In his career as principal of Rob Paral and Associates, has assisted more than 100 different human service, advocacy and philanthropic organizations in understanding the communities they are trying to serve. He works with large-scale data and geographic information systems to develop insight into community assets and needs.
Rob was a nonresident fellow in the Global Cities program of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, was Senior Research Associate of the Washington, DC office of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, and was Research Director of the Latino Institute of Chicago. He has been a fellow or adjunct of the Institute for Latino Studies at Notre Dame University, DePaul University Sociology Department, and the Latin American and Latino studies program at the University of Illinois-Chicago. More information may be found at https://robparal.com/