Carmen Cusido

Carmen Cusido has recently written for CNN, NBC News and The Huffington Post about U.S.-Cuba relations and eating disorders.

She works full time as a writer and communications professional for the Wildlife Conservation Society, an NGO based in New York City. In addition, she served as a part-time lecturer teaching a journalism course at the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University during the spring 2015 semester.

Before WCS, she was a reporter for The Charlotte Observer. During the Democratic National Convention in 2012, she wrote about North Carolina's first transgender delegate, how local candidates benefitted from national conventions and how young voters are less excited than other age groups during the upcoming election.

Her longest journalism job was as a full-time reporter at The Times of Trenton in New Jersey for four years. She was an award-winning education reporter there, but she also covered county government, religion and immigration while simultaneously earning her Master's degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Cusido currently serves as a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists' New York City board. Her writing has also appeared in The Star-Ledger, New Jersey Monthly and the New York Daily News, among other publications.