Laura Castañeda is an assistant professor of journalism at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication. She has been a staff writer, editor and columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle, The Dallas Morning News, and The Associated Press in San Francisco, New York and Mexico. Her freelance work has appeared in The New York Times, BusinessWeek Online, Women’s Wire, and Hispanic Business, Latina, Latina Style, Latin Girl, Columbia Journalism Review, American Journalism Review and Online Journalism Review magazines.
Ms. Castañeda was awarded the 2002 Baskett Mosse Award for Mid-Career Faculty Development by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication for her work on USC’s new Convergence Core Curriculum. Her book, "The Latino Guide to Personal Money Management," was published by Bloomberg Press in May 1999, and released in Spanish by Seven Stories Press in 2001.
