Joanna Hernandez is Multiplatform Editor at The Washington Post. Previously, she worked as a copy editor for The Record and the Herald News, two newspapers owned by the North Jersey Media Group in Northern New Jersey. Before that, she was director of the Feature Production Center for The New York Times Regional Media Group; weekend entertainment editor at The Star Ledger in Newark, N.J.; copy editor at the San Francisco Examiner in California; and copy editor at Newsday in Melville, N.Y.

She began her journalism career as a reporter for several newspapers in New York and Connecticut. She earned a B.A. in Journalism from New York University, an A.A.S. from the Borough of Manhattan Community College, and a certificate in newspaper management from the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education at Northwestern University.

Hernandez currently serves as vice-president of Unity: Journalists of Color, Inc. She has been a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists since 1993 and is a former director of NAHJ’s Region 2, representing members from Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Vermont.