April 12, 2006
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 Daisy Hernández is ColorLines Executive Editor. Her writing focuses on race, gender, sexuality, and other issues affecting young women of color. Born and raised in New Jersey, she received a B.A. in English from William Paterson College in 1997 and an M.A. in Journalism and Latin American Studies from New York University in 2001. She is the coeditor of Colonize This! Young Women of Today's Feminism (Seal Press, 2002). She has reported and written editorials for the New York Times, written a column for Ms. Magazine, and published with Newsday, the National Catholic Reporter, the Progressive Media Project, bitch magazine, Curve, Criticas, and In These Times.
Recent engagements:
- Talk: National Young Women's Day of Action at University of Texas at Austin (2007)
- Lecture: "Personal Essays: Writing About Familia, Raza, and Feminism" 26th Annual Lewis & Clark College Gender Studies
- Symposium: Our Voices, Ourselves (2007).
- Literary reading: Noche de Macondo at the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center in San Antonio, Texas (2007)
- Lecture and reading on personal essays and feminism at California State University, Long Beach. (2007)
- Tribute panel to This Bridge Called My Back at National Women's Studies Association (2007)
- Lecture and reading at Wellesley College (2006)
- Keynote: "Everything I Learned About Journalism, I Learned from My Mother," Women and the Media Conference, Center for New Words, Boston (March 2005)
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