Madelyn Vega

Madelyn Vega is a Puerto Rican journalist, attorney and college professor who currently works at La Sierra University in Riverside, California.

She previously served as a Judge for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and was an anchor and reporter for Telemundo in New York for over a decade.

During this time she enrolled in the University of Puerto Rico Law School, and, after graduating cum laude, was admitted to the Bar.

Vega holds a doctoral degree in Administration and Leadership from La Sierra University graduating at the top of her class.

While she maintained a high-profile career as a broadcast journalist, Vega also dedicated time to her legal interests, mostly ad honorem.

After more than 20 years as a journalist, Vega decided to pursue her legal career, and took the New Jersey Bar in 2007.

She joined La Sierra University and served as the director of the Title IX Office, Special Assistant to the President for Diversity, Equity and inclusion, and adjunct professor for the Zapara School of Business and the School of Education.

Completed a Juris Doctor from the University of Puerto Rico School of Law in 1998.

Vega is also a prolific freelance writer who writes editorial columns, travel stories and educational materials.

In the book, Dr. Vega explores how during the past eight decades, Puerto Ricans have been forced to emigrate to the mainland because of economic limitations in the island and how Puerto Ricans have endured social, racial and ethnic discrimination.

[citation needed] Dr. Vega started her writing career as the editor of the textbook Journalism in Puerto Rico in 1987.