_Teresa Puente
Teresa Puente has been an assistant professor of journalism at Columbia College Chicago since the fall of 2006 and she is the director of the News Reporting and Writing concentration. She also is the founder of Latina Voices http://latina-voices.com/wp04/ (funded with a grant from J-Lab and the McCormick Foundation) and writes an independent blog for Chicago Now (Chicago Tribune Media Co.) called Chicanísima http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/chicanisima/
Puente was previously a reporter at the Chicago Tribune and also was a member of the Chicago Sun-Times editorial board and wrote a column for the op-ed section. Puente also has worked for dailies in southern California and for Hispanic Link News Service in Washington, D.C. She also is the recipient of the Studs Terkel Award from the Community Media Workshop for her coverage of Chicago’s diverse communities. She has been a journalist for almost 20 years and in that time has written extensively about immigration and the Latino community in the United States. Puente previously served on the board of the National Associational of Hispanic Journalists and is currently on the board of the Chicago Association of Hispanic Journalists and on the national board of JAWS, Journalism & Women Symposium.
She has a M.F.A. in fiction writing from Columbia College Chicago and undergraduate degree from Indiana University-Bloomington in journalism and political science. She is a former instructor of journalism and writing at Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Guadalajara. Summer 09 courses: Travel Writing:Florence Fall 09 courses: Latina Voices Reporting Public Affairs / International (Graduate) Spring 2010 courses: Travel Writing:Peru (J-term) The World of Ethnic Media Multimedia Feature Writing
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