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Cindy Yulissa Rodriguez
Cindy Y. Rodriguez is an innovative journalist with 17+ years of experience with a proven track record for producing scalable quality & creative content while managing cross-functional projects. Most recently, she was the head of content for eVote.com, an online voting platform, where she was responsible for creating engaging videos, supervising remote freelancers, and nailing down the start-up's content and social media strategy.
She has produced content for NBC, CNN, Latina magazine, and Vivala.com, which she helped launch in 2015. One of her greatest successes was assisting in the launch HuffPost’s LatinoVoices in 2011. Two years later, she became the Editor for Latino audiences at CNN, where she was responsible for producing culturally relevant content in English across the network. Since then she has become well-versed in producing engaging, impactful and diverse content for English-dominant Latinos. So much so, that she co-founded a feminist podcast called Morado Lens where she and her childhood friend sex, culture, and embracing our inner bruja serving an organic monthly audience of 24K listeners.
She has freelanced for Voto Latino, New York Daily News, Cosmopolitan for Latinas, and HipLatina covering all things race, culture, travel, food, identity, and politics. Her journalism career also includes television production at NBC, public relations for the NFL, event coordination for MediaBistro.com, and online production for American Express publishing.
Resume
Experience
Senior Digital Producer
PBS
2018 to present
Morado Lens Podcast
Co-Founder
2015-2019
Senior Editor
Vivala.com
2015-2016
Associate Editor
The Huffington Post
2011-2012
Online Producer
American Express Publishing
2008-2009
Head of Content
eVote.com
2016-2017
Editor for Latino Audiences
CNN
2012-2014
Fact-checker
Philadelphia Magazine
2010-2011
NBC
Intern/Production Assistant
2005-2008
Education
B.A. Journalism & Spanish
Rutgers University
2001-2006
Study Abroad: Spain
Salamanca University
2004
Study Abroad: Australia
Macquarie University
2005
Volunteer Experience
Gloria Steinem Media Mentoring Program
2017 to present
Press
We All Grow Summit Panel: You’ve Launched Your Podcast, Now What? (2019)
Whether you've launched a podcast or thinking of starting one this workshop is going to be full of gems! Learn the current ins and outs of the business of podcasting: creating content that resonates, monetizing, promoting, building partnerships with brands and teaming up with other podcasters. Get an insider’s perspective on how to set up for success from podcasting extraordinaires Cindy Rodriguez of @moradolens and Brenda Gonzalez of @tamarindopodcast.
Bruja Glow Up: Journaling for Spirituality & Intuition (2019)
Join HipLatina for a day full of spirituality and honoring your intuition as we host a stellar line-up of well-known brujas who will be sharing their ancestral knowledge on everything from womb healing to limpiezas. Clear out that old energy and make way for the new at our Bruja Glow Up!
Winning Women: Celebrating Latina Entrepreneurs (2018)
Hispanic women are rapidly becoming an economic and social powerhouse in the United States, with rising rates of entrepreneurship, educational attainment and delayed marriage, according to 2017 Nielsen report. However, failure to invest in women of color, and in communities outside our major tech hubs is hurting individual entrepreneurs, local economic growth and our country’s future.
Join us for Winning Women: Celebrating Latina Leaders featuring a panel of Latina women in business, technology, wellness, food & fashion, where they will discuss the industry, the challenges as a Latina woman, and share practical advice.
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