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Esther Cepeda

  • Executive Advisor, Strategist, Data-Driven Storyteller, EeJayCee, LLC
Gainesville
As seen in: The Washington Post, NBC News, Chicago Tribune, Post Tribune, Chron, The Mercury News, Al Día Dallas, The Dallas Morning News, Deseret News, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and
Covers:  Hispanic/Latino issues, K-12 Education, Higher Education, Health, Politics, Economics, Demographics, Culture, Literature & Film, Media, Immigration, Parenthood
Data-driven Storyteller | Educator | #Latinx Witness to History | formerly @ The @washingtonpost Writers Group, @Suntimes @HuffPost @wistatejournal
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Esther Cepeda’s Biography

Esther J. Cepeda is a nationally syndicated columnist with The Washington Post Writers Group.

Born and raised on the North Side of Chicago, Esther J. Cepeda started writing before her scribbles adequately conveyed her musings. She attended Lane Technical High School then went on to Southern Illinois University, earning a Bachelor's degree in journalism with minors in music and psychology.

After being awarded a full scholarship to the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, she studied Integrated Marketing Communications there before going into direct marketing and public relations for a variety of Chicago companies.

In 2002 Ms. Cepeda began teaching as a bilingual teacher in low-income grammar and high schools in the suburbs of Chicago while working toward a Master's degree in Special Education from Roosevelt University.

Before joining the Chicago Sun-Times in 2006, then becoming Chicago's first Latino metro columnist, Ms. Cepeda wrote about national and local politics and social issues for Illinois newspapers and magazines across the country. She wrote a weekly column for the Sun-Times until February 2012. Cepeda started writing columns for the Washington Post Writers Group in 2010.