عن المؤلف | Teresa Puente has spent her career reporting on immigration and Latino issues in the U.S. and has also reported extensively from Mexico. Previously, she was a staff reporter at the Chicago Tribune and was on the editorial board at the Chicago Sun-Times. Early in her career, she worked as a reporter for the Press-Telegram in Long Beach and The Orange County Register. Her recent journalistic work has been published in TIME, The Guardian, The Daily Beast, The Hill, The Miami Herald, Fox News Latino, Latino magazine, and In These Times. Puente received the Studs Terkel Award from Public Narrative for her coverage of Chicago’s diverse communities. Puente, an assistant professor at CSULB, teaches News Reporting and Ethics, Social Media Communication and Bilingual Magazine Reporting & Production, which publishes the Spanish-language magazine Dig En Español. Puente holds an MFA in creative writing from Columbia College Chicago and a bachelor’s degree with a double major in journalism and political science from Indiana University-Bloomington. She previously taught journalism at Columbia College Chicago, was also a visiting assistant professor in the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and taught journalism at the Tecnológico de Monterrey campus in Guadalajara, Mexico.Jessica Retis, Ph.D is Professor in the School of Journalism, Director of the Bilingual Journalism M.A. and Center for University Education Scholarship (CUES) Fellow at the University of Arizona. She holds a Major in Communications (University of Lima, Peru), a Masters in Latin American Studies (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) and a Ph.D. in Contemporary Latin America (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain). Retis has three decades of experience as a college educator in Mexico, Spain and the U.S., and two decades as a journalist in Peru, Mexico and Spain. She is co-author of Narratives of Migration, Relocation and Belonging: Latin Americans in London and co-editor of The Handbook of Diasporas, Media and Culture. Her areas of research include: Latin America, migration, diasporas and transnational communities; Latino media in Europe, North America and Asia; journalism studies, bilingual journalism, and journalism education. At the University of Arizona, Dr. Retis teaches Latinxs and News Media in the United States, Global Latinxs, Journalism Theory, and Journalism Research Methods. She serves as the Academic Officer At-Large at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ), co-chair of the Latino/a Studies Section at the Latin American Studies Association, and co-chair of the Diaspora and the Media Working Group at the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). She also serves in the board of the Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly (NMCQ), the flagship journal of the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).Amara Aguilar is an associate professor of journalism at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. She teaches journalism for mobile/emerging platforms, social media storytelling for Latinx audiences, visual journalism, engaging diverse communities, public relations strategy, and interactive design, among other courses. At USC, she co-founded Annenberg Media's award-winning bilingual outlet, Dímelo, focused on serving Latinx audiences. Amara has written for the Los Angeles Times, CNN, Nieman Lab, and other outlets. She has worked as a designer, visual journalist, reporter, social media engagement producer and consultant. Amara was honored with the SPJ Distinguished Teaching Award in 2021, earned a Online News Association Challenge Fund grant for Innovation in Education in 2020, was named a TOW Knight Disruptive Educator for innovation in 2018, MediaShift’s top innovative journalism educator in 2018, a Scripps Howard Foundation-AEJMC visiting social media fellow in 2017, and an Apple Distinguished Educator in 2015. |