Our Team: Richard Tate
Richard Tate
Director, Communications and Marketing
Richard Tate is responsible for HopeLab’s media, public relations and product marketing activities. He unsures that HopeLab’s work, mission, and values are effectively communicated to key audiences through media coverage, web communications, direct-outreach projects, and public-speaking opportunities.
Richard joined HopeLab in 2006, with the launch of HopeLab’s first product, the Re-Mission video game for teens and young adults with cancer. Since that time, he has overseen all public relations aspects of HopeLab’s 2007-2008 international Ruckus Nation idea competition and the publication of data on Re-Mission in the medical journal Pediatrics . HopeLab’s programs and model of customer-focused, research-based product development have received international attention , including coverage in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, USA Today, The San Francisco Chronicle, Wired, Mumbai Mirror and Xinhua News.
Richard has more than 12 years experience in a variety of communications roles. Before joining HopeLab, he served as Director of Corporate Communications for biotechnology company Chiron Corporation. He began his communications career as an editor and journalist and has written for numerous print and online media outlets. Richard held editorial positions at the national newsmagazine The Advocate, the Los Angeles lifestyle magazine Buzz, Citysearch.com and GameSpy Industries.
Richard is a graduate of the University of Southern California, where he studied English and creative writing.