Mercedes Vigon, Ph.D., is associate director of the International Media Center and associate professor in the FIU's Lee Caplin School of Journalism & Media. She is a native of Spain and trained journalists in Mexico, Nicaragua and Paraguay. She also worked as a TV news director for Net Financial News. Vigon was an executive producer and international writer for CBS Telenoticias and a journalist with UPI. She is fluent in Spanish, French and English.