John Agliata

John Agliata has been the senior writer for RGA since May 2024. He began his professional career as a newspaper reporter at age 16 before attending college at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. After graduation, he worked in newspapers, primarily in southwest Ohio, before finishing his newspaper career as editor of the Faribault Daily News, in Faribault, Minn. After leaving newspapers, John worked as a communications and marketing expert with electric cooperatives, in real estate, and with Shriner's Children's in St. Louis.