Juleyka Lantigua is the
managing editor of “XXL” magazine, and has previously worked in the same
capacity for “Honey” and “Urban Latino”. She also works for “The Progressive
Media Project”. Juleyka Lantigua has had opinion pieces published in “The LA
Times”, “The Miami Herald”, “The Houston Chronicle”, and other newspapers in
Latin America. She studied Government and Spanish at Skidmore College, New
York, graduating in 1996. Thanks to a Fulbright Scholarship, she was able to
spend some time in Madrid, where she helped launch a newspaper and a magazine, while
researching Dominican immigration to Spain. She also worked as a translator for
the University of Madrid. Juleyka Lantigua also won a Hearst Scholarship to
study at the Institute for Economic and Political Studies in London. She was
awarded a master’s degree in journalism from Boston University. In 2001,
Juleyka Lantigua was invited on PBS’ “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer”, and was also
named by “The New York Daily News” as one of the “Ten Latinos Changing the Face
of New York”. The following year, she was given the Palamountain Award for
Young Alumni Achievement by Skidmore. She has worked in editing at the Beacon
Press and Random House. She has taught writing and journalism at college and
the Frederick Douglas Creative Arts Center. “The Fixer Upper” is the title of
her first novel, which she is still working on.
Tuning
into Hispanics – transcript of the Jim Lehrer programme that featured
Juleyka Lantigua
Bright
Lights – a Juleyka Lantigua article for “The New York Post”
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