Executive Editor | El Sentinel

Deborah Ramirez is the Executive Editor for El Sentinel.  She oversees a staff of three and has El Sentinel grow from 60,000 in 2002 to current 147,000 copies.  A few years ago she joined forces with their sister paper in Orlando to serve more than 200,000 readers in South and Central Florida.  Deborah joined the Sun Sentinel in 1992 and El Sentinel in 2002.  A graduate of Columbia University School of Journalism and University of Puerto Rico, she has worked as an editorial writer, columnist and Cuba correspondent.

She was born in New York City and moved with her family to Puerto Rico at age 12. This was a defining moment in her life.  She learned to read and write in Spanish, and also learned how to appreciate people from different backgrounds and socio-economic levels.  She enrolled in a small rural school and some of my classmates were the children of sugarcane workers. These lessons have stayed with her for the rest of her life and career.  She is single, with no children, but blessed with wonderful nieces and nephews.

Deborah loves news, music, films, travel and food.   She is avid thrift-shop, vintage fan.  Loves blues, latin jazz and old-school salsa.  I worship singer-songwriters, in Spanish and English.