REBECA LOGAN
Director, Public Affairs Programming

Rebeca Logan is an award-winning journalist with more than 10 years experience covering national and international issues in Washington DC. During her career she has covered a wide range of topics, from national politics to immigration, and has worked for print, wire and online media. Special assignments have included on location interactive coverage of the 2004 political Democratic and Republican conventions and election and immigration issues from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Ms. Logan was a part of the small team that  launched AOL Latino, which went from being a keyword to a full fledged online destination for Hispanics in the United States. She is also the former editor of the Servicio Hispano of EFE  News Services, the premier Hispanic News Wire in the United States, and a part of the largest Spanish language wire service in the world. Ms. Logan is also an avid blogger and podcaster.

LUISA FERNANDA MONTERO
Associate Producer

Luisa Fernanda Montero is an award-winning journalist with 13 years of experience in radio, television and print media.

During the last eight years, Ms. Montero has covered political, immigration, national and community issues in Washington DC. In her native Colombia, she covered from social and urban affairs, to politics and the country’s hottest issues of drug trafficking and guerrilla warfare.

Ms. Montero was a reporter, and later a Washington correspondent for Cadena Caracol, Colombia's leading TV and radio network. She was also a reporter and anchor for Telemundo's local television channel in Washington, DC. At the same time, she was the news director for the morning broadcast Dia a Dia, in its radio station Viva 900 (WILC-AM). Later she was a reporter for competitor Univision, and a contributor for several radio newscasts.

She has been a reporter for the Servicio Hispano of EFE News Wire Services, Washington Correspondent of El Salvador’s major daily La Prensa Gráfica; and her features, columns and reportages have appeared in more than 130 newspapers across the continent.

She was recently published in the book Crónicas del secuestro (Ediciones B, Bogotá, 2007), where she presented a journalistic essay on Colombian exile by reason of kidnapping. Ms. Montero received her BA in Journalism and Social Communication from the Universidad Externado of Colombia in 1995.

JULIO GONZALEZ
Senior Engineer

Julio Gonzalez was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. He studied Computer Systems Engineering, and Communications at Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana. Together with two colleagues, Julio started Naturenew Music, a company which produced music jingles and audio for Radio and TV commercials aired by major networks in Honduras.

Julio obtained a BA in Music and Music Production from Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Today, Julio manages all studio operations for Hispanic Commnunications Network (HCN) where Epicentro is produced.