Univision News Anchor Teresa Rodriguez Taking On New Role

Teresa Rodriguez, one of Univision’s top news anchors, will become the spokesperson for a new company initiative aimed on celebrating the positive contributions of Hispanics in the United States, as well as other projects. Details will be announced in early 2022. She will leave her role as co-host of Univision’s primetime newsmagazine Aquí y Ahora (Here and Now) at the end of this year to focus full-time on her new assignment.

Rodriguez joined Univision in 1982 as a co-host of Noticiero Univision, becoming the first Latina to host a national newscast in the United States. She is the winner of 15 Emmy Awards for her work as a journalist on Univision’s primetime newsmagazine Aquí y Ahora. She has also been recognized with the George Foster Peabody and the Silver Angel for Excellence in Media Awards.

Her name is on the 2013 New York Moves Magazine Most Powerful Women list and her media work has been recognized by The Hollywood Reporter as having one of the 10 highest Q Score results among Latinos in the United States. She has also been recognized with two GLAAD awards, one in 2016 for the report “En Cuerpo Ajeno” (In an alien body), which examined the lives of four transgender individuals and another one in 2017 for a report about a renowned Venezuelan singer and her transgender son.

One of her books, Las hijas de Juárez: una historia verdadera de asesinato en serie al sur de la frontera (The Daughters of Juárez: A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border), is a best-seller investigation of femicides in Juarez, Mexico. She also contributed to Count on Me: Tales of Sisterhood and Fierce Friendships, a collection of essays about women.

Rodriguez is a founding member of Univision’s Women’s Leadership Council, which helps empower future leaders within the corporate world. She is also involved in projects and initiatives that provide information to families so that they can play an active role in advancing the education of their children. She has served as the Spanish-language spokesperson for the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women campaign.

Rodriguez is currently a member of the Miami Dade College Alumni Council and a former Board of Trustee member of Barry University, her alma mater.