‏Jennice Fuentes‏

Jennice Fuentes is an informed cultural commentator and a frequent guest on various local and national news and discussion television programs. She is also an actress, who was most recently seen in a recurring role in the HBO critically-acclaimed series, K Street (2003). In addition, she has worked as a Chief of Staff on Capitol Hill.

As a film critic, she is a frequent guest, as well as a guest host, in National Public Radio/WAMU's live, two-hour radio program, "The Kojo Nmandi Show" and in "9 News Tonight", the local news show on WUSA 9, the CBS network affiliate station.

She is also a contributor to the program "Around Town", which airs on WETA/Channel 26 (http://www.weta.org/tv/productions/at/), the leading public broadcasting station in the nation's capital. From 2006 to 2007, Ms. Fuentes was the host of "Actualidades", a Hispanic Communications Network radio program featuring vignettes celebrating the best offerings in Hispanic culture.

Fuentes' movie reviews, celebrity interviews and entertainment articles have appeared in a number of Spanish language magazines, including People en Espanol, Cristina La Revista, Caras Magazine and Vista Magazine.

A native of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, she is a native Spanish speaker but is also fluent in English, French and Italian and conversant in Russian and German.

She holds a B.A. from Clark University and a M.A. from New York University and has also studied overseas at the Ecole Europeene des Affairs in Paris, France.