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Esmeralda Fabián Romero is a bilingual journalist who has worked for some of the most prominent Latino media outlets in the U.S. including La Opinión, the leading Spanish-language newspaper in the nation.

Fabián has also collaborated for the Los Angeles Times’ Spanish publication HOY and FOX News Latino. She was a news producer for the national newscast Noticias MundoFOX.

The National Association of Hispanic Publications awarded her reporting work on education in 2012 and 2013 with the National Association of Hispanic Publications’ Jose Martin Publishing Award for outstanding education article.

In 2014, her journalistic work allowed her to become a fellow of the Loyola Journalist Law School from Loyola Law School. She was selected from a group of journalists from around the nation who applied for the fellowship where she was the only reporter selected from a Spanish-language media outlet. She has also been selected several times as a fellow by New America Media.