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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The Weight We Carry: Unpacking Eating Disorders Sin Vergüenza

Our Heritage Month offers a critical moment to talk about the often-hidden experiences of eating disorders in Latine communities. For both of us, anorexia isn’t just about restricting food—it’s about control, identity, and cultural contradiction. I, Carmen, reached a terrifying 60 pounds by age 13. I, Emillio, who also struggled as a teen, recalled “when I could touch my spine and play it like a xylophone, to an empty tune only I could hear, I felt proud—like I had finally made it.” As Hispanic...
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How Selena Quintanilla Gave Me The Confidence to Stand Up For Myself

At 11, I was a friendless, pudgy nerd with unruly dark hair and oily, olive-toned skin who was relentlessly bullied at my Catholic school.  While my 6th-grade Latina classmates in Union City, New Jersey, obsessed over Jennifer Aniston’s iconic Rachel haircut on Friends or listened to TLC and En Vogue, I preferred Gloria Estefan, Celia Cruz, and Julio Iglesias. I also spent hours watching Spanish-language soap operas with my grandmother. Needless to say, I wasn’t the class trendsetter. But then o...
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Speaking Spanish Was the Heartbeat of My Home Until My Parents Died

Growing up, Spanish was the heartbeat of my home. I was born in Union City, New Jersey, dubbed Havana on the Hudson, to much older Cuban exile parents who made it their mission to ensure I was fluent in their native tongue, something they took pride in and wanted to impart to me. Since there were few, if any, children’s books in my parents’ native tongue at local bookstores in the 1980s and ’90s, they instead brought home El Diario La Prensa, and other newspapers as they parsed through stories about death, taxes, and other gloomy topics to find the most kid-friendly articles I could practice reading. This became part of my language learning education.