Carla Cristina Rojo Zuluaga is an Emmy-Award winning journalist, currently working as a bilingual reporter for Telemundo/NBC Boston, covering everything from breaking news, education and sports, in the New England area that especially effect the BIPOC community. Carla is a proud first-generation Colombian-American, both of her parents immigrated to the USA from Medellin, Colombia.
Born and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts, Carla is a proud product of the Mill City and feels extremely lucky to have grown up in such a diverse area, where her family still resides. She graduated from Lowell High School in 2008 and went on to study communications at Middlesex Community College where she graduated with her Associates Degree, all while being a part of the Theatre Department and working full time. Carla than became the first from her family to graduate from college, she received her Bachelor’s in Broadcast Journalism (honors) from Suffolk University in 2014.
It’s almost been 10 years of hard work for her and there is still so much more to accomplish.
Thanks to her family, friends and mentors, Carla has been able to open doors that are usually not easily available for people of color and that’s why she volunteers at her alma mater, talking to and mentoring students that are also trying to navigate those crazy but fulfilling college years.
She says her biggest responsibility is continuing to work for her “Comunidad Latina”
SI SE PUEDE!