Juleyka Lantigua page

Juleyka Lantigua, the former managing editor of GIANT, XXL, Urban Latino and Honey magazines, is a journalist, writer and editor whose work has appeared widely in newspapers and magazines. She earned a Master of Science in Journalism from Boston University and a B.A. from Skidmore College. While researching immigration policy as a Fullbright Scholar in Spain, she helped launch a monthly newspaper (Prensa del Caribe) and a quarterly magazine (En Dialógo). She has been a nationally syndicated columnist with The Progressive magazine's Media Project for nine years. Her opinion columns have appeared in U.S. papers including The Houston Chronicle, The Miami Herald, The Chicago Tribune and the L.A. Times. The New York Daily News has selected her as one of the "Ten Latinos Changing the Face of New York." A graduate of the Radcliffe Publishing Course (now the Columbia Publishing Course), Lantigua guest edited, and contributed an essay to, the summer 2001 - and an abridged Spanish-edition of - the Nieman Reports for Harvard University's Nieman Foundation for Journalism. One of her essays, "Man of the House," is included in Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism, an anthology published by Seal Press. "My Ciguapa," a short story, is included in the young adult anthology Once Upon a Cuento (Seal Press). "That Latino Show," an essay originally published in The Progressive magazine, has been anthologized in The Simon and Schuster Short Prose Reader, 4th and 5th editions (Simon & Schuster, 2005, 2008). Lantigua has served on the faculty of the Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center, where she taught freelance writing for magazines and newspapers.

Visit her website: www.juleykalantigua.com

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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