Ray Casas of Texas Rangers Baseball Club to be featured at DallasMeetup

DallasMeetup is proud to announce that Ray Casas, Senior Director of Community Impact at Texas Rangers Baseball Club, is the latest Featured Networker joining DallasMeetup at Concrete Cowboy Frisco. 🤠🥳

Ray Casas, a public and government relations professional has spent over 25 years working with and for major corporations and non-profit organizations across the world. Ray’s professional career began at the University of Texas at Arlington where he served as an Admissions Officer in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, recruiting and counseling high school students on the college admissions process. He later rose through the ranks and became Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions, overseeing the Freshman Admissions Program for the university.

After 8 years in higher education, Ray moved on to Washington, DC and worked for the Hispanic Heritage Foundation and later, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute under Chairwoman Grace Flores Napolitano (CA). After his time spent on Capitol Hill, Ray then accepted a role with MTV Networks in New York City, overseeing the public affairs department for then start-up, MTV Tr3s, a channel aimed at reaching U.S. Latino Millennials.

Ray then returned to Washington, DC and served as Manager of Government Relations for Viacom (now Paramount). Ray served as one of the company’s leading advocates in Washington, advising its senior executives on a wide range of policy matters affecting the entertainment industry. Ray also served as one of the company's liaisons between their movie studio (Paramount Pictures), cable channels and The White House during the Obama Administration.

In 2014, The Huffington Post included Ray as one of the “40 under 40 Latinos in American Politics.” After leaving Viacom in 2016, Ray started a boutique, public relations firm in Los Angeles focusing on projects that included non-profit campaigns and the entertainment world. In the same year, Ray was selected by Google as a member of the NextGen Tech Policy Program.

In 2018, Ray accepted a front office role with the Texas Rangers Baseball Club. He currently serves as Senior Director of Community Impact for the 2023 World Series Champions.

In his spare time, Ray takes part in several philanthropic projects and serves as a Media Advisor to Power to Decide and BringChange2Mind, a mental health, non-profit organization, founded by award winning actress, Glenn Close.

Make plans to meet Ray and his team February 5th! Register here.