Patricia Torres-Burd

Patricia Torres-Burd

United States
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    Chile

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    South Africa

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    Argentina

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    Projects world-wide

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    United States

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    Houston, Texas, United States

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    United States

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    United States

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    Serbia

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    Romania

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    Slovenia, Czech Republic, Romania

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    Global, Former Yugoslavia, South America, Mexico, Panama, Mexico, Colombia,

Education

Volunteer Experience

  • Chicas Poderosas Graphic

    Advisory Board Member

    Chicas Poderosas

    - Present 4 years 5 months

    Economic Empowerment

    Chicas Poderosas es una comunidad global que promueve el cambio inspirando y fomentando el desarrollo de mujeres en medios de comunicación y creando oportunidades para que todas las voces sean escuchadas.

    Desde su creación el objetivo de Chicas Poderosas ha sido promover el liderazgo femenino y la igualdad de género en los medios. Al interior de las empresas de medios las mujeres están sub representadas en los puestos de liderazgo y en cargos intermedios . También lo están como fuentes…

    Chicas Poderosas es una comunidad global que promueve el cambio inspirando y fomentando el desarrollo de mujeres en medios de comunicación y creando oportunidades para que todas las voces sean escuchadas.

    Desde su creación el objetivo de Chicas Poderosas ha sido promover el liderazgo femenino y la igualdad de género en los medios. Al interior de las empresas de medios las mujeres están sub representadas en los puestos de liderazgo y en cargos intermedios . También lo están como fuentes informativas y como protagonistas de la noticia. Esto genera una agenda editorial con una perspectiva limitada, ya que excluye las voces y temáticas vinculadas a las mujeres y disidencias del debate público. Más aun, la subrepresentación de las mujeres en los medios perpetúa las desigualdades.

    Para abordar la brecha de género en los medios, Chicas Poderosas ofrece capacitación profesional para brindar a mujeres y disidencias las habilidades concretas que necesitan para llevar su carrera al siguiente nivel, impulsar proyectos empresariales y promover el liderazgo femenino en el periodismo. Como comunidad, Chicas Poderosas ofrece a las mujeres que trabajan en medios una red de apoyo que funciona como un espacio para intercambiar conocimientos y experiencias, y brindar acceso a oportunidades para desarrollar sus carreras. Chicas Poderosas también está cambiando la narrativa para transformar el mundo, promoviendo espacios para la creación de proyectos de periodismo colaborativo.

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    Advisory Board Member

    Jack J. Valenti School of Communication at the University of Houston

    - Present 8 years 7 months

    Education

    The Jack J. Valenti School of Communications at the University of Houston works to not only educate and promote the fields of communication to students but to also provide real work experience and mentoring as well as a global perspective to the various industry trends and challenges faced in the media environments today.

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    Advisory Board Member

    SembraMedia

    - Present 8 years 4 months

    Economic Empowerment

    SembraMedia aims to increase the diversity of voices and quality content in Spanish by helping digital media entrepreneurs become more sustainable and successful.
    Our long-term vision is to foster the development of new types of journalism and digital media by providing training, networking, business services and a broad range of support. Our larger mission is to help media entrepreneurs better serve their audiences by helping them to publish higher-quality information with greater integrity…

    SembraMedia aims to increase the diversity of voices and quality content in Spanish by helping digital media entrepreneurs become more sustainable and successful.
    Our long-term vision is to foster the development of new types of journalism and digital media by providing training, networking, business services and a broad range of support. Our larger mission is to help media entrepreneurs better serve their audiences by helping them to publish higher-quality information with greater integrity and sustainability.

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    Board Member

    AAF-Houston

    - 1 year 1 month

    Education

Projects

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Spanish

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • French

    Limited working proficiency

  • Romanian

    Professional working proficiency

  • Slovene

    Limited working proficiency

  • Serbian

    Elementary proficiency

Organizations

  • International News Media Association INMA

    Proud New Member!

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  • SembraMedia http://sembramedia.org

    Advisor Board Member

    - Present

    Honored to serve as part of the Advisory Board of SembraMedia, a non-profit association dedicated to helping entrepreneurial journalists and other startups that produce informative content online in Spanish. http://sembramedia.org We are creating this directory and online community to help digital content entrepreneurs connect with each other, share best practices, and support each other’s work. We focus on projects in Spanish in the U.S, Latin America and Spain, and we are always delighted…

    Honored to serve as part of the Advisory Board of SembraMedia, a non-profit association dedicated to helping entrepreneurial journalists and other startups that produce informative content online in Spanish. http://sembramedia.org We are creating this directory and online community to help digital content entrepreneurs connect with each other, share best practices, and support each other’s work. We focus on projects in Spanish in the U.S, Latin America and Spain, and we are always delighted when our work encourages new projects anywhere in the world. Non-profit organization SembraMedia is a 501c3 non-profit based in the United States that operates under the fiscal sponsorship of the Institute for Non-profit News http://inn.org/.

  • Jack J. Valenti School of Communications / University of Houston

    Advisory Board Council

    - Present
  • Houston Community College Film and Audio School Advisory Board

    Advisory Board Member

    - Present
  • Women in Film and Television Houston

    Past Board Member

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  • AAF-Houston

    Past Board Member

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