Lilliam Martinez-Bustos is the Program Director of the FIU/Univision Student Training and Employment Program (STEP), an experiential learning program sponsored by FIU-CARTA and Univision Television Group, which started in January 2020. Prof. Martinez-Bustos teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in the department of journalism and media. She also teaches media courses in the SCJ study abroad program in Seville, Spain. Her research interests include trends in multimedia and Spanish-language news coverage of Latin America, immigration and other issues affecting the fast-growing Latino community in the United States. Before joining FIU, she spent over two decades as a broadcast journalist in English-language and Spanish-language television. She worked as a producer in the Washington bureaus of the NBC-Telemundo and Univision networks. She’s also worked at local affiliates of PBS, CBS and ABC in Boston. In Miami, she was an executive producer with CBS-Telenoticias network. Prof. Martinez-Bustos is a member of the CARTA Task Force on Inclusion, Equity and Diversity (DEI) and she serves in the Community Advisory Board of WPBT-South Florida PBS in Miami.
