Cindy Yulissa Rodriguez
Founder and CEO, Reclama | Outdoor Wellness for Women of Color | Journalist and Speaker
- Role
- Story Producer at Spotify
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Cindy Yulissa Rodriguez
Cindy Y. Rodriguez has spent 15+ years crafting powerful stories with media giants like NBC, CNN, HuffPost and PBS. One of her proudest achievements is hosting and producing the now Webby Honoree and Emmy-Nominated 5-part docu-series, “Hay Dinero,” which offers practical financial planning tips for the Latinx community and highlights the deep connection between culture and generational trauma. Her commitment to creating diverse and impactful content shines through in her work, especially when addressing topics like identity, culture, and race. Cindy\'s dedication to diversity and inclusivity extends beyond the screen, as she founded Reclama, an outdoor wellness community for women of color. When she noticed the lack of representation in outdoor spaces, Cindy made it her mission to empower the BIPOC community to unapologetically take up space in nature. With over 75 hikes and retreats and more than 900 women of color served, Reclama is growing stronger every day because everyone deserves to connect with nature on their own terms.Her work also includes co-launching HuffPost’s LatinoVoices and Vivala, and co-founding the award-nominated feminist podcast Morado Lens. With conversations spanning sex, culture, and spirituality, the podcast featured high-profile guests like Alexandria Ocasio, Dolores Huerta, and Rosario Dawson, attracting a 20K monthly listenership and over 500K downloads across 95 episodes. If you’re looking for a Latina, woman of color, Peruvian, child of immigrants, journalist, hiking guide, writer, podcaster, trauma-informed facilitator, Wilderness First Aid trained, CPR certified, outdoor advocate, host, producer, and storyteller who wants to help change the world, let’s chat.
Experience
Story Producer
Jul 2019 — Present
Worked with Special Projects to produce a podcast pilot for Spotify- Guided the editorial arc of the program from initial pitches through execution- Organized and lead edits and listening sessions, drawing the best ideas out of the host - Generate story ideas or angles with other producers and oversee script development
Education
Yale University
Storytelling in Modern Media, Journalism
2019 — 2019
Macquarie University
Journalism
2005 — 2005
Rutgers University
Bachelor's degree, Journalism
Rutgers University
Bachelor of Arts, Journalism and Spanish
2001 — 2006
Skills
- SEO
- Television
- Videography
- Social Media
- Web Producing
- Metrics
- Public Relations
- Digital Media
- Video
- Newsletters
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Blogging
- Editing
- Journalism
- Adobe Photoshop
- Field Producing
- Storytelling
- Fact-Checking
- Apps
- Feature Articles
- Adobe Creative Cloud
- News Writing
- Writing
- Broadcasting
- Websphere
- Magazines
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