Cristy is an entrepreneur and award-winning marketing, media and communications practitioner with more than 15 years experience and specialization in Hispanic and multicultural community initiatives.
 
She is a founding partner and Co-CEO of Latina Mom Bloggers Network – a sister company of Hispanicize Event and Being Latino. She brings her expertise in entrepreneurship, marketing and business to help create new services and support for bloggers and online media, while creating unique social media engagement programs for brands and organizations.
Cristy is the Creator and Publisher of Los Tweens & Teens, a bilingual media platform and community resource site launched in 2011 to engage multicultural parents raising kids between ages 7-17. By way of in-market events, Board of Experts and content contributors that includes counselors, an Olympian, teachers and others, the site offers content relative to the issues and joys of parenting tweens & teens and raising a healthy family. Content also includes the kids sharing content together with their parents to report on the topics, activities and communities important to them.
 
Prior to joining the Latina Mom Bloggers team and launching Los Tweens & Teens, Cristy led PR Newswire’s Multicultural Markets division as senior vice president, a role she was appointed to following the 2008 PR Newswire acquisition of Hispanic PR Wire, LatinClips and Hispanic Digital Network- all companies that she co-founded and spearheaded. She also helped found the Hispanic marketing practice at global public relations agency Porter Novelli.
 
A New Jersey native of Cuban decent, Cristy is an active Girl Scout Troop leader and volunteers with other community organizations, speaks nationally at conferences and blogs regarding social media initiatives at Hispanicize.com. She resides in Miami Beach with her husband and identical twin daughters.