Esmeralda Santiago
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Esmeralda Santiago was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She came to the United States at 13, the eldest in a family that would eventually include 11 children. Ms. Santiago attended New York City’s Performing Arts High School, where she majored in drama and dance. After eight years of part-time study at community colleges, she transferred to Harvard University with a full scholarship. She graduated magna cum laude in 1976. In 1977, she and her husband, Frank Cantor, founded Cantomedia, a film and media production company, which has won numerous awards for excellence in documentary filmmaking.
Her writing career evolved from her work as a producer/writer of documentary and educational films. Her essays and opinion pieces have run in newspapers like the New York Times and the Boston Globe, in magazines like House & Garden, Metropolitan Home and Sports Illustrated, and as guest commentary on NPR’s All Things Considered and Morning Edition.
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