For her work producing a CBS feature report about computer spam, Mercader won a business Emmy Award in 2004.
[3] In 2004, Mercader won an Emmy Award for Business and Financial Reporting for helping to produce "The Little Engine That Could, Spam" a CBS News Sunday Morning feature report on computer spam.
[1][3][4] Mercader was appointed as director of talent strategy in 2016[5] where she helped improve workplace diversity and coordinated CBS News' participation with the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA), the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, and the National Association of Black Journalists.
[5] For over two decades before her death, Mercader had numerous illnesses, including cancer.
[1] In the last week of February 2020, she took medical leave, then died from the COVID-19 pandemic at a New York hospital on March 29, 2020.