Oprah Daily / Carmen Cusido

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.

What It Took to Finally Stand Up to My Biggest Fear

I was in the emergency room in the spring of 2021 when I decided something had to change. I had driven to the hospital so many times in the past few years that I knew the directions to the emergency room and the intake questions by heart. I don’t have a life-threatening condition, as you might imagine. I have a pathological fear of vomiting, also called emetophobia, and over the years, I have tried everything to try to prevent it.

Oprah Daily • 18th April 2022

My Immigrant Parents Left Me an Inheritance, and Their Complicated Relationship with Money

After my parents died 16 months apart, I inherited a windfall that included my mortgage-free childhood home (valued at $328K) and nearly six figures from their savings. That, combined with a salary in the low six figures and the fact that I’m child-free, meant that I’d be living pretty comfortably, right? Not exactly. Even though I outearn my much older ex and many of my peers, I feel perpetually poor: In my mind (and some of my actions), I’m still that working-class girl I was growing up, scra