Ingrid Bejerman

Ingrid Bejerman is a journalist, scholar and cultural promoter specializing in cultural reportage, Latin American matters, and journalism training. She served as reporter and columnist for the leading São Paulo (Brazil) daily O Estado de S. Paulo, as program coordinator for the Foundation for a New Iberian-American Journalism in Colombia and as director of the Cátedra Latinoamericana Julio Cortázar at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. She has recently concluded her doctoral dissertation on the institutionalization of journalism, at McGill University, where she is also a lecturer in communication studies. She is currently teaching a graduate seminar at Concordia University's MA in Journalism Studies (JOUR 602 -- Foundations of Journalistic Thought II).