ABSTRACT
Aminda Marques Gonzalez is executive editor and vice president for news at the Miami Herald. Born in New York to Cuban immigrant parents, Marques began her career as an intern at the Miami Herald and rose through the ranks to become the paper's first Hispanic editor in 2010. Her career has included assignments as a metro reporter, assistant city editor and deputy metro editor, directing the Miami Herald's local, state and community news operations. She left the paper in 2002 to work as Miami bureau chief for People magazine, overseeing coverage for the southeast US, the Caribbean and Latin America. She returned to the Miami Herald in 2007 as a multimedia editor. During nearly a decade of local reporting, Marques went on to cover Hialeah, the second largest city in the newspaper's home county, and followed the landmark case involving the Santeria religion to the US Supreme Court.
