Albert Raboteau
raboteau@vt.edu
(540) 267-6061
Senior Content Strategist for Principal Giving
As the senior content strategist for principal giving, Albert Raboteau draws from over 25 years experience in journalism and higher-education marketing and communications to help raise money and awareness for university priorities.
Albert worked as a daily newspaper reporter in New Jersey and Southwest Virginia for a decade before joining Virginia Tech’s marketing and communications team in 2007. Since then, he has collaborated with colleagues throughout the university on fundraising and engagement projects that have helped secure record gifts and cement Virginia Tech as a national leader in alumni giving participation. Albert is a member of the creative studio team that collaborates with LINK: Center for Advancing Partnerships and the university’s principal giving colleagues.
Albert earned a double-major B.A. in journalism and anthropology from New York University and a M.A. in communication from Virginia Tech. Along with being an alumnus, he is the proud Hokie parent of a student in the university’s fish and wildlife conservation program. Outside of work, he enjoys snowboarding, surfing, and hiking.