Biography

Coronado is an award-winning bilingual journalist, university professor, textbook author, and former Director of Communication and Outreach for the College of Sciences at the University of Central Florida (UCF). She is the Florida Association of Broadcast Journalists 2025 Teacher of the Year.

Her career has led her to conduct free speech and free press workshops in Cuba, Egypt, and Vietnam. Coronado has also been the keynote speaker at journalism conferences in Costa Rica, Colombia, Mexico, and Spain. Most recently, her philanthropy work led her to establish a “Reading Technology Lab” for children in Brazil.

UCF’s NSCM appointed her to the journalism instructor position in 2011, after working at NBC and Telemundo affiliates for more than a decade. Coronado also launched numerous Spanish language broadcast divisions including radio and television stations and digital platforms for media outlets across the U.S. She currently teaches news writing, Hispanic Media-and International courses, as well as on-air delivery. As part of her commitment to educating the next generation of journalists, she created UCF’s first multi-lingual skills course which offers students an outlet to cover stories in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Her work also led to the creation of the first Hispanic Media Certificate at UCF.

During her time leading UCF’s COS Communication team, she produced and directed successful media campaigns featuring dozens of world renown scientists, students, philanthropists and donors. She is committed to teaching fair, balanced and ethical journalism.

Her research focuses on the state of media in Cuba and Latin America. One of her most impactful accomplishments in academia, was to lead a group of student journalists to communist Cuba.

Her appointment as Special Advisor for Latin America and media for UCF’s Global Perspectives office recently brought her back to television. The long-time journalist co-hosts the Central Florida PBS show about international topics, Global Perspectives.

Her industry work also includes multi-media content production, remote news anchoring for national media companies, media coaching and consulting as well as collaborating with U.S. and Latin American media corporations.

Coronado is co-editor and author of the first academic textbook about Hispanics in Media in the U.S: Hispanics in Media in the U.S.