Sandra Guzman

Sandra Guzmán is an award-winning multimedia journalist with more than two decades of experience in broadcast, newspaper, and magazine journalism. She is the author of the critically acclaimed book The New Latina's Bible: The Modern Latina's Guide to Love, Spirituality, Family and La Vida (Seal Press, 2011).

Guzmán is the editor-in-chief of Heart & Soul magazine and the former editor-in-chief of Latina magazine, the first national glossy lifestyle magazine targeting American Hispanic woman. She was also a former associate editor at The New York Post, where she edited nearly a dozen feature sections, including Tempo, and a section she created that covered the city's Latino community. A leading expert in journalism targeting the burgeoning Hispanic market, she has produced and written hundreds of articles profiling prominent men and women in politics, business, and the arts, in addition to having written and produced hundreds of stories about Latinos and Latinas. In 1999, she helped launch soloella.com, a bilingual website for Latinas.

Guzmán began her career as a general assignment reporter at El Diario/La Prensa, New York's largest and oldest Spanish-language newspaper, and later worked as an assignment manager and producer at Telemundo's evening news (WNJU-TV) where in 1995 she won an Emmy for "The Cuban Embargo (Embargo Contra Cuba)," a half-hour groundbreaking special on the US embargo against the island nation. It won the station's first News and Public Affairs Programming Emmy.

Guzmán is a dynamic public speaker with extensive experience delivering keynote addresses and workshops on college campuses and Fortune 500 companies on topics involving media, race, women, wellness, pop culture, politics, and diversity.

She is a graduate of Rutgers University.