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Ella Cerón, Lifestyle Editor at Apartment Therapy
Ella is a writer and editor from Los Angeles, California, now based in New York City. She is currently the Lifestyle Editor at Apartment Therapy, and has worked at Teen Vogue, MTV News, and The Cut. She specializes in interviews as well as the intersections of pop culture, entertainment, politics, and wellness. You've also seen her work at GQ, InStyle, Cosmopolitan, and other major outlets.
Ella can coach on:
Interviewing
Writing and reporting
Taking edits and feedback
Bianca Padró Ocasio, Politics and General Assignment Reporter at The Miami Herald
Bianca is a reporter for the Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald. She has been a Florida journalist for three years, covering politics and the Hispanic community in Central and South Florida. She previously worked at the Orlando Sentinel and Politico.
Bianca can coach on:
Writing and reporting
Personal branding
Unionizing your newsroom
Sabrina Moreno, Reporter at The Richmond Times-Dispatch
Sabrina is a Virginia-based journalist from Caracas, Venezuela, who reports on how policy fails Black and Latino neighborhoods while focusing on chronicling the lives of people within these communities and how they look out for one another. Throughout the pandemic, she's covered the racial disparities in health, education, and poverty through a mixture of enterprise reporting and features. She was the point person covering Richmond's protests against police violence.
Sabrina can coach on:
Navigating a predominantly white newsroom
Building sources and relationships on a new beat
People-focused writing and reporting
Handling the first year post-grad in the industry
Marissa J. Lang, Reporter at The Washington Post
Marissa is an award-winning reporter who covers protests, activism, and local news for the Washington Post. She lives in Washington, D.C., but has previously worked in all four corners of the country — reporting on the tech industry for the San Francisco Chronicle, city government for the Sacramento Bee, criminal justice at the Salt Lake Tribune, and all-things-Florida news at the Tampa Bay Times. Marissa also teaches intermediate journalism courses as an adjunct at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism and regularly mentors student journalists with the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. A New York City native, she is a notorious pizza snob, doting dog mom, avid yogi, and unrepentant sinvergüenza.
Marissa can coach on:
Writing and reporting
Advocating for yourself and managing up
Social media and personal branding
Translating journalism for the classroom
Paula Mejía, Culture Editor at Texas Monthly
Paula is a Colombian-American writer and editor hailing from Houston, Texas. She is the Culture Editor of Texas Monthly, and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, The Paris Review, and other publications. She is a co-founding editor of Turning the Tables, NPR Music's series about centering women and nonbinary musicians in the musical canon that won a 2018 Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media. In 2017, she was named one of Remezcla's Latinx Music Journalists You Should Be Reading, and was recognized as one of Brooklyn Magazine's 30 Under 30 the previous year.
Paula can coach on:
Interviewing
Freelancing
Writing cover letters and resumes
Pitching
María Sánchez Díez, Operations Editor at The Washington Post
María is a journalist working at the intersection of journalism, audience, and product. Currently, she’s an operations editor at the Washington Post. She has worked at ProPublica, and was a general assignment editor focused on new storytelling formats at Univision. She has also written for Quartz, El País, El Diario, Soitu, and Condé Nast Traveler. María is a Fulbright scholar and a Tow-Knight Center fellow.
María can coach on:
Audience engagement
Digital strategy
Building bilingual and global audiences
Working at a legacy organization
Gabriella Lewis, Senior Video Journalist at the New York Times
Gabriella is an NYC-based video producer, journalist, podcaster, and proud AfroLatina from the Bay Area. She is currently a senior video journalist at the New York Times. Outside of work, she hosts the Mixed Reviews podcast, which aims to unpack the modern mixed-race experience. She’s created content for Vogue, Vanity Fair, Bon Appétit, Pitchfork, BuzzFeed, VICE, GQ, Allure, Glamour, CNN, WIRED, Architectural Digest, Epicurious, Teen Vogue, HuffPost, and Complex Magazine.
Gabriella can coach on:
Video and podcast production
Interviewing
Cover letters and resumes
Advocating for diverse voices in the content your workplace is creating
Alieza Durana, Journalist and Media Strategist
Alieza is a Utah-based journalist from Washington, D.C., who reports on housing, eviction, and homelessness for Princeton's Eviction Lab and Economic Hardship Reporting Project. She has a master’s degree in Public Policy and her work has appeared in the Washington Post, CNN, the Atlantic, Slate, and Harvard Business Review. Alieza also appears as a spokesperson for the Eviction Lab and has produced segments with the New York Times, Full Frontal with Samatha Bee, The Daily, CNBC, ABC News, NPR and other outlets. Alieza's previous work experience includes managing the Fuller Project for International Reporting, and reporting on work, gender, and social policy issues domestically and internationally for Slate and New America.
Alieza can coach on:
Writing and reporting
Media impact strategies
TV and radio appearances as an issue expert or spokesperson
Addressing structural discrimination in your workplace