Myriam MÃ¡rquez

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I've worked in Washington, Baltimore, Annapolis, Md., and Orlando, but as Dorothy told Toto, "There's no place like home.'' I came back home in October 2005, starting as an Assistant City Editor at The Miami Herald, and in December 2007 I was tapped Deputy Metro Editor. I coordinated award-winning coverage of South Florida's Latin American and Caribbean communities. I can relate to their struggles Â… I arrived in South Florida from Cuba not yet 5 years old, only months after the Cuban revolution. My dad wasn't rich Â… just a man with a taxi and a dream, married to my mom, a school teacher. As the Castro regime's firing squads became all the rage in Cuba and tourists wisely kept away, my parents made a life-changing decision to move to Miami to protect their young family.

Writing has always been my passion, so it was natural for me to jump into the Metro columnist job when it became open in 2008 and now to the Editorial Board. Championing the community's best interests is serious business, and the board's goal is to deliver a lively exchange of ideas Â… in print and video.

I love South Florida, having graduated from Miami Senior High and Miami-Dade Community College before heading to the University of Maryland where I earned a bachelor's in journalism and a minor in political science. Before the Herald, I worked at UPI and the Orlando Sentinel. I've been blessed with a wonderful husband who shares my passion for truth and justice, and we've raised two sons Â… a Florida State Seminole and a University of Florida Gator. I always tell them, there's no place like home.

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EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR

Myriam Márquez

Myriam Márquez is the Editorial Page Editor and has a column that runs in the Metro & State section on Sundays. A University of Maryland journalism graduate, she has worked at The Miami Herald since 2005, serving as assistant city editor and later deputy metro editor. She spent 18 years as an editorial board member and columnist at The Orlando Sentinel. Born in Cuba, she grew up in Miami. She is married to Orlando investigative TV reporter Tony Pipitone, and they have two sons -- a Florida State Seminole and a University of Florida Gator.
DEPUTY EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR

Juan Vasquez

Juan Vasquez is the Deputy Editorial Page Editor. A University of Texas graduate, he was a foreign correspondent for The Los Angeles Times living in Mexico City before moving to Miami in 1985 to cover Latin America for a TV network. He joined the Herald in 1999 as national/foreign editor. In 2003 he joined the editorial board as deputy. He writes editorials about Latin America and the Caribbean, national and financial issues. Born in Texas, Vasquez and his wife, Patricia, have two grown children and live in Miami-Dade County.
LETTERS EDITOR

Nancy Ancrum

Nancy Ancrum is The Miami Herald's letters editor. A native New Yorker, Ancrum has worked at The Miami Herald since 1983. A graduate of New York University, she began her career at the now-closed Baltimore Evening Sun. Before becoming a member of the Editorial Board in 1990, she worked as an assistant city editor in the Herald newsroom. She oversees letters to the editor and designs the opinion pages. Ancrum also writes a column for the Herald's food section called Cultural Kitchen. She is married to George Fishman, a mosaic artist.