Elena Cabral

Attribute: Adjunct Professor and Assistant Dean of Student and International Programs at the Columbia Journalism School

As Assistant Dean of Student and International Programs, Elena oversees partnerships with universities in Paris, Barcelona, Chile, São Paulo, and Buenos Aires. She oversees the part-time MS program for students who live and work in the New York City area. A 1999 graduate of Columbia Journalism School, Elena was a staff reporter at Newsday and The Miami Herald and a freelance magazine writer. She has also worked as an editor at Scholastic News and a staff writer at the Ford Foundation. A longtime adjunct professor at CJS, Elena is the faculty adviser to the National Association of Hispanic Journalists student chapter at Columbia. She is a board member of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize for outstanding reporting in Latin America and the Caribbean, and she administers several post-graduate fellowships that support reporting projects around the world.