About

I mostly serve Caribbean Latinos in the U.S. and on the islands with editorial content and news products at the intersection of journalism, bilingual engagement, health, sustainability, leadership and community development.

I’m the creator and strategist behind all the experimental journalism work at Huellas Media Lab. I also serve as a media advisor for Madre Tierra Producciones.

My reports for bicultural Latinos about transnational health, micro economy initiatives and leadership building are on my own news blog.

Recently, I served as the national program director of the Latino Media Initiative at CUNY’s Center for Community Media out of Midtown, Manhattan.

I was invited to develop and teach a trial course on Spanish Journalism and Media at The City College of New York, tailored to CUNY multicultural students with proficiency in Spanish and interest in journalism in the U.S. and the Americas.

My most distinctive accomplishments are associated with my work as a bilingual multimedia reporter with The Philadelphia Inquirer, where I covered the complex transnational experiences that Latinx communities face in Philadelphia, mainland and abroad.

In this position, created by the 2018 Lenfest Journalism Fellowship, I developed the Latino communities beat for the newsroom, in addition to founding and managing a Spanish-language site called El Inquirer, to deliver online news, features and service journalism for Hispanic and Latinx populations in the Greater Philadelphia area.

I developed the idea and concept behind the newsroom’s unique Communities and Engagement Desk, together with Service Editor Megan Griffith-Greene, as a member of a working group focused on anti-racism, diversity, equity and inclusion, to transform the paper’s coverage.

My journalism work has been featured in CNN Opinion, Yale Climate Connections, The Philadelphia Inquirer, El Diario NY, HITN, Voice of America, City Lab Latino, The Lo-Down, Salta Pa’trás Films, Diario Libre, Radio Santa María and Listín Diario, being the last where I won a national journalism award for my work on sustainable tourism in Dominican Republic.

I was granted PUCMM’s first OrgulloCOM honor in 2013 and I was honored with the 2017 CUNY Excellence in Leadership Award for my service and efforts at the Newmark J School’s Graduate Student Council and CUNY’s University Student Senate.

As a graduate student, I was a finalist for the 2017 Eppy Awards, SPJ’s 2018 Mark of Excellence Awards and for CUNYJ’s 2018 Sidney Hillman Social Justice Reporting Prize.

In addition to the 2018 Lenfest Journalism Fellowship, I was also awarded the 2018 Climate Solutions Reporting Fellowship and the 2020 Lenfest Constellation News Leadership Fellowship.

I won second place in the 2020 Keystone Media Award’s Investigative Reporting – Division I category and the special 2022 Keystone Media Awards’ Lenfest Institute Diverse Journalist Award. I was also nominated by the general public for Al Día News Media’s Women of Merit Awards in 2021 and 2022.

I became one of 13 journalists to inaugurate the National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowships, a year-long training program that ended in July 2022.

My efforts, leadership and initiatives in the journalism industry granted me an invitation alongside other U.S. American media thinkers and visionaries to contribute to Nieman Lab’s 2022 Predictions for Journalism, being the only Dominican contributor that year and one of few Latinas and non-white media makers who have been selected for the package.

My work in media has been rooted in journalism with social impact that connects Latinos in the Americas to audience-driven, editorial content and products in and out of the scientific realm.

My accomplishments have been featured in PUCMM Informa, Egresados PUCMM and Nieman Reports.

My contributions to the Dominican diaspora and U.S. Latino communities were recognized in 2024 by Luis Abinader, the 54th president of the Dominican Republic, his presidential cabinet and diplomatic body alongside 20 outstanding Dominicans of first and second generation.

Most recently, I was one of two journalists featured in the collectible book Best of DR: Dominicans Abroad, published by Mercado Media Network in partnership with the American Chamber in the Dominican Republic, the Institute of Dominicans Abroad and the Embassy of the Dominican Republic in the United States of America.

I was born in Washington Heights (New York City) and grew up in La Vega (Dominican Republic).

I studied Media & Communications at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, completed a professional degree in Digital Journalism with the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Business School and mastered in Bilingual Journalism with a minor in Health and Science Reporting at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. I now live in Philadelphia.

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