SUSANNAH A. NESMITH

QUALIFICATIONS

• Award-winning journalist and editor.
• Fluent in Spanish with experience working in a variety of cultures both in the U.S. and abroad.
• Adept at crisis management and trained in battlefield first aid.
• Experienced with multimedia publishing, internet research and social networking.

WORK EXPERIENCE

2009 to present, Adjunct professor, Barry University, Miami Shores, FL.
Teaching journalism and serving as the faculty advisor to the student newspaper, the Barry Buccaneer.

2009 to present, Freelance writer, editor, researcher and web consultant, Miami, FL.
Clients include Bloomberg News, The Daily Business Review and Miami Book Fair International.

2003- 2009, Reporter/Editor, The Miami Herald, Miami, FL
Multimedia coordinator and part-time editor. Previously legal affairs and crime reporter, covering the fourth largest judicial circuit in the country. Covered hundreds of cases and more than a dozen high-profile trials. Also periodically dispatched to report on crises in Haiti, New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, the war in Iraq and political uncertainty in Cuba.

• 2007 Awarded a fellowship to study civil law by the American Board of Trial Advocates.
• 2005 Finalist, Livingston Award for young journalists.
• 2005 Part of a team, Second Place, International Reporting, Society of Professional Journalists.
• 2005 Part of a team, Second Place, International Reporting, National Association of Black Journalists.

2000-2003, Reporter, The Associated Press, Dominican Republic and Bogota, Colombia
Reported for two years from Bogotá, Colombia, covering the war, economic issues and the presidential elections. Dispatched to Caracas, Venezuela in the aftermath of the 2003 coup. Ran the AP's office in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic for 18 months, supervising four stringers and covering the presidential election, poverty, international business and health.

1998-2000, Freelance reporter, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Covered the reconstruction of post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina. Also reported from Turkey, Italy, Portugal, Croatia and Greece. Clients included the San Francisco Chronicle, Cox Newspapers, the Cairo Times.

1992-1998, Reporter, The Palm Beach Post, Stuart and Ft. Pierce, FL
Covered legal affairs, crime, health care, local government, social services, NASA and education.

• 1995 Second place, Crime Writing, The Florida Press Club.
• 1994 Second place, Crime Writing, The Florida Press Club.

Summer 1992, Intern, The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, CA
Covered police and agriculture.

1991, Reporter, El Mercurio, Santiago, Chile
Reported and wrote in Spanish, covering a variety of topics, from the death of the country's only elephant to judicial reform after the ouster of General Augusto Pinochet.

EDUCATION

1992, BA, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, Degree in Latin American Studies and History
1990 – 1991, La Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile