Executive Board
SembraMedia’s Executive and Advisory boards are made up of a diverse group of journalists, academics, and media leaders who share our mission to strengthen Spanish-language digital media. They extend our network and play a vital role in setting our mission and goals.
Board President
Teresa Frontado
Digital Director at WLRN Public Media, South Florida
Former Knight Wallace Fellow, University of Michigan
Vice President
Ismael Nafría is the Director National Geographic Spain. He is a journalist, author, consultant, and professor specializing in digital media.
Treasurer
Professor James Breiner
Digital media consultant
Visiting Professor of Communication
University of Navarra, Spain
Advisory Board
Rosental Calmon Alves
Knight Chair in Journalism & UNESCO Chair in Communication; Director, Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, University of Texas at Austin
Alejandro Alvarado Bremer
Coordinator of the Spanish-Language Journalism Master’s program, Florida International University in Miami.
Patricia Torres Burd
Managing Director – Media Advisory Services
Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF)
Profile on LinkedIn
https://about.me/patburd
Marga Cabrera
Professor, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Founder, El Observador de Medios
Charo Henriquez
Senior Editor, Digital Storytelling and Training at The New York Times
David LaFontaine
Digital media consultant
Adjunct Professor of Digital Journalism
University of Southern California
http://www.davidlafontaine.com/
Profile on LinkedIn
Ramón Salaverría
Director of the Center for Internet Studies and Digital Life
y Professor of Journalism, Universidad de Navarra, Spain
Amy Schmitz Weiss
Ph.D., associate professor of journalism
at the School of Journalism and Media Studies, San Diego State University.
Fabiola Torres
ICFJ Knight Fellow and member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).
She is co-founder of Salud con Lupa
Glenda Umaña
One of the most recognized and respected television journalists in Latin America
Former Anchor, CNN en español .
Esther Vargas
Director and founder of Clases de Periodismo
Director and founder of Sin Etiquetas, an LGBT digital media project based in Peru.
Editor of audiences of Perú21.
SembraMedia Founding Members
The team and board members below contributed to the foundation of SembraMedia.
Co-founders
Janine Warner and Mijal Iastrebner
Founding Advisory Board:
Rosental Alves, Maria Catalina Colmenares-Wiss, Patricia Torres-Burd, James Breiner, David LaFontaine, Teresa Frontado, Ramón Salaverría, Glenda Umaña, Adriana Peña, Esther Vargas, Neil Chase.
Founding Team Members
Luz Mely Reyes, Jordy Meléndez Yúdico, Laura Zommer, María Virginia Portillo Decán, Ariadna Coto, Ismael Nafría, Fabiola Torres López, Mauricio Jaramillo Marín, Isabela Ponce, Juan Pablo Ferrari Saavedra, Nilsa Varela Vargas, Sebastián Auyanet, Elaine Diaz Rodriguez, Olivia Sohr, María Isabel Soldevila.