Joanna Hernandez

Director of Community and Culture
Senior Lecturer - Department of Journalism

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Hernandez comes to UF from CUNY Graduate School of Journalism where she was the founding director of the school’s diversity initiatives. In that role, she created a program to prepare students of color for digital-journalism work environments; planned curriculum to strengthen students’ researching, pitching, writing, visual, audio skills; produced content for diversity/inclusion workshops; and managed relationships with employers and mentors.

Prior to joining CUNY in 2012 as director of career services, Hernandez was a multiplatform editor at The Washington Post. She also had reporting and editing roles at the New York Times Regional Group, Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J, San Francisco Examiner, Newsday, New York Daily News, and the Bridgeport (Conn.) Post.

Hernandez also has been an adjunct lecturer at CUNY, Hunter College and New York University.

Areas of Expertise

Editing (written), Feature Writing, Multicultural/Race Communication and Issues, Multimedia Journalism, Reporting

Education

Master of Public Administration, Baruch College, SDA Bocconi in Milan, Italy
B.A., NYU.

News

• Joanna Hernandez Re-Elected Treasurer of Journalism & Women Symposium (October 27, 2022)
• Second Time’s the Charm for UFCJC Journalism Student Awarded $10,000 Scholarship (May 27, 2020)
• UF College of Journalism and Communications Announces Unprecedented Expansion (August 6, 2018)
• Joanna Hernandez Joins CJC as New Director of Inclusion and Diversity (May 15, 2018)
• All News About Joanna Hernandez

Courses