Guest Contributor

Evelyn Hernández

Evelyn Hernández is the Opinion Page Editor at El Diario/ LA PRENSA in New York, the nation's oldest Spanish-language newspaper. She is a member of the Editorial Board and is the paper's editorial writer.

Hernández was a reporter at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, Texas) and The Miami Herald and an editor and reporter at New York Newsday. She has also worked as a freelance editor and writer for several organizations including Latina magazine, The Hartford Courant and Cybertimes (The New York Times). She has covered cops, city government, politics, immigrants, immigration and human interest stories.

She is a past-president and founding member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, a past-president and founder of the Florida Association of Hispanic Journalists and a founder of the Dallas-Fort Worth Network of Hispanic Communicators.

A Puerto Rican born in Hartford, Conn., she earned her Bachelor's Degree from Boston University and her Master's Degree from New York University. She has taught journalism at Queens College, Columbia University and New York University.

She appears as a political commentator on Kirtzman and Company on CBS Channel 2 and on New York 1.

She lives in New York City with her two daughters.