- Lou Cafiero
- National Marine Sanctuary Program
Lou Cafiero is the National Media Coordinator for the National Marine Sanctuary Program.
An accomplished public relations and marketing communications professional with more than 20 years of domestic and international experience, Lou has worked for and provided consultation to leading corporations and organizations.
Before joining NMSF, Lou left the corporate world and his own communications consulting business to work for the International Fund for Animal Welfare were he traveled the world helping to rescue animals in distress and was noted for his work handling media relations and rescuing animals in New Orleans and Texas after hurricane Katrina. He also is a trained marine mammal stranding responder, having rescued and released dozens of stranded dolphins off the beaches of Cape Cod.
In addition to being an award winning writer, video producer and strategic communicator, Lou is an experienced SCUBA diver, published photographer and boating enthusiast.
Lou holds a M.S. from Columbia University, a B.S. in Science from Lehman College and an executive certificate in Communications Management from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.