BIO

She is currently the Managing Editor of Billboard en Español. Previously she programmed and wrote about Latin and World Music for Rhapsody, and was the Latin & World Music Programming Manager for MTV’s digital music service, Urge.

Her features and criticism have appeared in publications and on web sites including Travel & Leisure en Español, Billboard, The New York Times, Dwell, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Departures,The Miami Herald, and on Batanga.com and Amazon.com. Her writing is included in the anthology Travelers' Tales: Cuba and in three editions of the Time Out: Miami Guide. As a staff writer for the Miami New Times in the 1990s, Judy garnered acclaim for her groundbreaking series of articles on Cuban music and cultural politics. “La Mezcla,” Judy’s column on Latin music and culture, was published in Miami's Street Weekly (published by The Miami Herald), where she was also a staff writer.

Judy’s non-fiction comics, created in collaboration with artist and animator David Navas, have been published in Street Weekly and Mexico City’s Picnic magazine.

After earning her BA in Journalism and Spanish at New York University, Judy began her career on the Associated Press' New York City desk. Writing for The Buenos Aires Herald , she covered the burgeoning film, music, and visual art scenes in Argentina.

Judy has contributed her expertise in culture and the arts to interactive media projects, as a consultant for television, and to record companies, cultural institutions, and marketing firms. She served as the editorial director of the team that created www.coleccioncisneros.org, the trilingual site of the Caracas-based Cisneros Collection, a major private collection of art from the Americas and Europe. From 2000-2001, she was the producer of the Microsoft Windows Media Guide Latin America. She has served as a consultant to CBS Television's Sixty Minutes II for "Made in Havana," a documentary segment on Cuban music. She has provided copywriting and editorial services to Sony Music and other major and independent record labels, The Wolfsonian and other museums, and companies including Citi Private Bank Art Advisory Service and Occidental Hotels and Resorts.

Working in the Artists and Repertoire department of CBS Records' international division in New York, Judy was involved in the production and promotion of recordings by Latin American and Spanish artists. In Spain, she worked as a correspondent for ArtNews magazine in Madrid, reported for the Associated Press from Seville, and spent two years in the Canary Islands, where she was the director of public relations and a publications editor at the Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno , a contemporary art museum in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria.

Judy has won numerous awards, including a National Music Journalism Awards first prize for feature writing, the Society of Professional Journalists' Green Eyeshade award for criticism, and an Inter American Press Association fellowship to Buenos Aires.