Cindy E. Rodríguez
Adjunct professor of journalism
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Cindy E. Rodríguez is a veteran journalist with more than two decades of daily newsroom experience. She also taught journalism throughout her career — at NYU, Fordham University and Boston University, to name a few — before deciding in 2011 to teach full time.
Cindy is currently a Senior Journalist-in-Residence at Emerson College, where she has teaches an array of journalism courses, including several she has developed such as Covering Immigration. She is also the president of the New England chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. She also serves on the boards of Massachusetts Mass Media Fund for the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism (BINJ) and the Massachusetts Scholastic Press Association.
Moments before the start of a Zoom class, August 2020. She has taught mobile journalism workshops throughout the U.S., focusing on how to shoot and produce video packages using smartphones. Her current passion is creating virtual reality videos to produce empathetic and immersive storytelling experiences.
She is developing an Urban Affairs Reporting class in collaboration with The Bay State Banner, which will focus on reporting on issues affecting residents of Mattapan, Roxbury and Dorchester. (It was set to begin in the fall of 2020 but was postponed a year because of COVID-19.)
In 2015, her Whiting Foundation Fellowship took her to Cuba for research and to lay the groundwork for the creation of Emerson’s first study-abroad course in Cuba for journalists.
During her journalism career, Rodríguez specialized in race relations and cultural affairs at The Detroit News, wrote provocative columns on the intersection of culture and politics for The Denver Post, and covered immigration and demographics for The Boston Globe. She has been published in The New York Times, ABCNews.com, The Village Voice, The Huffington Post, Latina Magazine, and Time magazine, among other publications. She has spoken on issues related to immigration, race, ethnicity, culture, and the Latinx experience in the U.S. at conferences throughout the country.
She has held leadership positions with the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, including being a vice president. She was born and raised in Harlem. Her parents hail from Puerto Rico and Cuba.
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