Helen Aguirre Ferré
 

Helen is the Opinion Page Editor of Diario Las Americas, an independent Spanish-language newspaper founded in 1953 in Miami by her father, Horacio Aguirre. Born in Nicaragua, she is perfectly bi-lingual. She hosts the Washington Watch TV program in Washington, D.C. and moderates the monthly public affairs program Issues for the South Florida PBS station. She also is a political analyst for the Telemundo channel in Miami. Helen is on the Board of Trustees of Miami Dade College. In 2007, she became the first community college trustee appointed to the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges. She is very active in various Hispanic and community groups such as the American Cancer Society, Goodwill Industries, the Cuban Rotary Club and the Cuban Women’s Club. Helen has served as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Inter-American Dialogue, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, on the board of the Nicaraguan American Foundation, and is a Dame of the Knights of Malta.  Helen holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Barry University and a Master of Arts in Inter-American Studies from the University of Miami.