Journalism Capstone Project

June Carolyn Erlick's roles at Harvard allow her to combine her two great passions in life: journalism and Latin America. Erlick is the author of four books, A Gringa in Bogotá: Living Columbia's Invisible War (University of Texas Press, 2010), Disappeared, A Journalist Silenced (Seal Press, 2004), Telenovelas in Pan-Latino Context (Routledge, 2018), and Natural Disasters In Latin America and the Caribbean (Routledge 2021). She is also the editor of Journalists of Today: Profiles of Passiona and Diversity, written with her 2019 Harvard Extension School proseminar students. She is the recipient of the 2023 Maria Moor Cabor Prize from Columbia University for lifetime service in hournalism promoting understanding among the Americas. Erlick worked as a foreign correspondent in Colombia, Nicaragua, and Germany for 18 years, writing for publications such as the Miami Herald and Time magazine. She covered the Sandinista revolution, the war in El Salvador, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Erlick has been awarded two Fulbrights, one in Guatemala and one in Colombia. In 1977, she was awarded an Inter American Press Association (IAPA) fellowship to study and report from Colombia. She was given the James Conway Excellence in Teaching Writing Award in 2007. When not busy reading, writing, teaching, and traveling, Erlick loves to play Scrabble and is hooked on the online version, Lexulous.