Carmen Cusido

Carmen Cusido has worked for MikeWorldWide Public Relations, the New Jersey Department of Education, Twitter, the Wildlife Conservation Society, and others.


During her time on the editorial team at Twitter Moments, she taught journalism at Kean and Rutgers universities and Hudson County Community College. Her writing has appeared in Newsweek, Oprah Daily, Refinery29, Remezcla, NBC News, CNN, NPR, Cosmopolitan, New Jersey Monthly, NRDC, and other publications.

Cusido also has written about U.S-Cuba relations and her recovery from anorexia and has been interviewed by ABC News, The Guardian, The Star-Ledger, amNewYork, and Univision. Her book, "Coping with Eating Disorders," geared toward a young-adult audience, was published in January 2019. She was also featured in Jean Chatzky's 2019 book titled "Women with Money."

In addition to her full-time job and freelance writing, Cusido co-teaches a bilingual journalism course at Montclair State University in New Jersey, and has taught communications and journalism courses at Kean and Rutgers universities and Hudson County Community College.

Cusido earned a Master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor's degree in Journalism with minors in Spanish and political science from Rutgers University. Additionally, Cusido participated in the Yale Writers' Workshop in 2018 and earned an executive education certificate through Harvard Business School in 2021.

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Carmen Cusido

Newsweek • 10th February 2022

"I tried to take my own life after my mom died"

As the only child from my Cuban parents' marriage, born when my mother, Magaly, was 40 and my father, Armando, was 54, I grew up in a sheltered home in working-class Union City, New Jersey. I wasn't allowed to sleep over at friends' houses for years. And even when I had a newly minted driver's license at 17, I was prohibited from driving solo until age 20, and only then because I had a summer internship at a newspaper. Despite how overprotective my parents were, my mom and I were very close. I
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  • About Me
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  • CNN
  • NRDC
  • Cosmopolitan
  • New Jersey Monthly
  • Coping With Eating Disorders book
  • Newsweek
  • Oprah Daily
  • Refinery29
  • Health Magazine
  • mitú
  • Next Avenue
  • Hispanic Kitchen
  • Podcast interviews
  • TIME
  • Remezcla
  • The Independent (UK)
  • Business Insider
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