Ingrid Bejerman
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Ingrid Bejerman is a journalist, scholar and literary/arts manager specializing in cultural reportage, Latin American matters, and journalism training. She served as reporter and columnist for the leading São Paulo daily O Estado de S. Paulo in her native Brazil, as programme coordinator for the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation for Journalism in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, and as director of the Cátedra Latinoamericana Julio Cortázar at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. She is a programming consultant for prestigious literary events in the Americas, and programming associate for Blue Metropolis, the Montreal International Literary Festival, where she’s in charge content in Spanish and Portuguese. Bejerman holds a doctorate degree from McGill University, where her work focuses on the institutionalization and professionalization of journalism, and teaches courses in journalism and communication studies at Concordia University, in Montreal, Canada.