Tinabeth Piña

Tinabeth's communications career started when she was a DJ at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania and launched the first bilingual radio show in the Lehigh Valley featuring all styles of Latin music. She was also the station's International Music Director. (WJRH 104.9 FM) Her undergraduate thesis at Lafayette, addressing the lack of Latino representation on mainstream television, was so well received that it went on to become required reading at the University of Texas in Austin. After graduation, she went on to work for Time Warner, ABC, FOX and the WB where she won an Emmy for her contributions to VIVA!, a nationally syndicated program that showcases Latinos in entertainment. Tinabeth has also worked for one of the subsidiaries of Rainbow Media - * The Metro Channel - - as a writer, producer and on-air reporter. Tinabeth covered the entertainment beat where she had the opportunity to interview some of the biggest names in showbiz including Julia Roberts, Enrique Iglesias an