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Cara Hughes Marcano is a freelance journalist and entrepreneur, Publisher and Founder of Reporte Hispano, the Spanish newspaper and Hispanic public relations and marketing and media company for New Jersey. 

She writes and researches about government, housing and real estate, single motherhood, small business ownership, entrepreneurship and economic development, big government, female artist empowerment,  parenting, Pennsylvania, the U.S. middle class (upper, middle and lower) with a particular focus on the lower-middle-class, women’s issues and feminism,  education, and the U.S. Hispanic market.  

Cara is from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Columbia College, Columbia University (BA) and the Columbia University School of Journalism (MS) Journalism.  She has written for Popular Science Magazine, This Old House Magazine, The New York Times, The Associated Press in New York and Latin America, and The Wall Street Journal. She is currently a freelance writer for Discourse magazine and the Publisher of Reporte Hispano. 

Cara offers translation services and editing and teaches Spanish and journalism and the business of journalism.  She lives in New Jersey and Pennsylvania with her Springer Spaniel.

Cara also sits on the board of Storytelling Arts, a  nonprofit community of  storytellers, and teaching artists who share the living art of oral storytelling with contemporary audiences in NJ.