NHLI Staff News
New Hire
Having been exposed to the other side of media relations as researcher for People en Español magazine, reporter for Nuestra Comunidad, a Gannett-owned Spanish language newspaper in South Jersey and freelancer for several publications including DC-based magazine Soluciones, Cheryl Aguilar passionately brings her past experience to NHLI as its new Communications and Online Marketing Manager. Previously, at the Center for Community Change, she managed media outreach to ethnic media, conducted outreach to mainstream media, and supported the media efforts of local grassroots groups across the country.
Later, Cheryl brought those skills to the nationally recognized Latin American Youth Center, the largest youth development agency in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, where she was responsible for overseeing the communications and media efforts. In the last three years, Cheryl has organized several media campaigns and dozens of media events including a national call-in day campaign to congress to support comprehensive immigration reform and a national telephonic press conference for ethnic media to inform developments on immigration reform bill.
Cheryl graduated from Rutgers University, with a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Mass Media Studies and she is looking forward to pursuing her Master’s degree in Public Relations in 2009. Cheryl is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications and the Public Relations Society of America.
Promotions
Evelyn Garcia-Morales, ’04 Latinas Learning to Lead alumna, was recently promoted to Program Manager from her former post as Program Coordinator. Evelyn, who is responsible for overseeing NHLI’s leadership programs and alumnae relations, feels excited about the new role.
“NHLI has allowed me to evolve. As I continue to evolve personally and professionally, I look ahead at the opportunity to move the programs forward and continue improving them so that NHLI remains the premier leadership institute for Hispanas.”
Evelyn has been involved with non-profit work since 2001. Her passion for developing the next generation of leaders is such that in the next three years she plans to pursue a Master’s degree in leadership development. Meanwhile, Evelyn will continue to keep busy through her volunteer work teaching English to undocumented immigrants and through her affiliations at the Young Non-Profits Professional Network, the Washington, DC University of Nevada, Las Vegas network, among others.
Administrative Assistant Katheryn Hernandez has been promoted to Online and Networks Support Associate. In addition to continuing to assist with program and conference events, she will be responsible for managing NHLI’s various databases, supporting our soon to be launched membership program, assisting with online communications efforts, and coordinating webinars.
Katheryn, who is studying web design, is thrilled to be able to do new things. “Everything is moving towards a more technological direction. It feels great to be a part of NHLI’s new initiatives.” Katheryn has been working at NHLI since September, 2007. She previously worked at the National Hispanic Press Foundation.
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