Teresa Hernández
Assistant Professor

101F Franklin Hall
Tel: 330-672-4290
Email: thernand@kent.edu

Spring 2008 Office Hours

MW 2:00-3:30 PM
T 12:15-2:15 PM

Teresa Hernández teaches photography and photojournalism. Before coming to Kent State University, Teresa revived the photojournalism program at Central Michigan University where she taught for four years. She coordinated the Multicultural Journalism Workshop for three years. Funded by SBC Ameritech, Gannett Foundation and Caponigro Public Relations Inc., the unique format for the workshop gave high school students an opportunity to work closely with award-winning media professionals.

Prior to teaching, Teresa worked first as an intern for two semesters and then as a staff photographer at The Grand Rapids Press for nine years as well as interim bureau chief for six months. While at The Grand Rapids Press, she worked on several photographic projects traveling to Haiti, Cuba and Mexico.

She interned at The Buffalo News and The Ithaca Journal.
Teresa’s projects included a personal account of what it was like to return to Cuba, her birthplace, 30 years after her family immigrated to the United States. Her story and photographs were published in The Buffalo News Sunday Magazine.

As a photojournalist in Michigan, Teresa worked on several stories covering the migration of manufacturing jobs to Haiti and Mexico. In 1996, Teresa collaborated on a photographic project in Cuba that was funded by the National Endowment of Arts.

In 2000, she produced a series of photographs “Tale of Two Cities” which was exhibited at the Holland Museum in Holland, Michigan.

Her photographic interests involve cross-cultural issues as well as the role ethnicity plays within individual communities in the United States.

Photojournalism is Teresa's second career. Before entering the Master's program at Syracuse University, Teresa taught biology in community colleges in North Carolina and Kentucky.
Teresa has a B.S in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, an M.S. in Biology from Texas Woman’s University and an M.A. in Communications Photography from Syracuse University.

Teresa speaks French and Spanish. She has traveled throughout Central America, Northern Africa and Europe and lived in Dijon, France and Tamanrasset, Algeria.

Her dog, Luigi, likes living in Kent where he can pursue his love of chasing squirrels.