With nearly 20 years of working with and engaging diverse audiences, Carolina Valencia's background spans the media, nonprofit and political sectors. Carolina has worked at The New York Times, Univision and The Recount. She currently heads up partnerships, communications and audience development at Epicenter-NYC, a community journalism multiplatform organization that started as a newsletter.

At The Recount, Carolina spearheaded the strategy and operations for its social media and digital ecosystem further growing audience and engagement, and increasing revenue. Prior to joining The Recount, she led all aspects of communications and digital for an elected NYC official, council district efforts and special initiatives. Earlier, Carolina served as director of communications and digital at NYC Kids RISE, a nonprofit working to expand economic opportunity and equity for public school students.

At Univision, Carolina co-founded the first enterprise social media team garnering industry recognition, growing its social footprint and increasing revenue. She also led communications and engagement efforts for CSR, political, education, music, programming, digital, news, and several other initiatives.

At NYT, Carolina managed media relations and community affairs. At the rise of Twitter, she developed the social strategy for several initiatives and events. Carolina was recognized with two awards from then company Chairman Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. for media relations and community affairs.

A native of Guayaquil, Ecuador, Carolina grew up in NYC and worked in the neighborhoods hardest hit by COVID-19. She is passionate about the convergence of digital and IRL experiences and volunteers her time in support of seniors, youth, immigrants, and minority-owned small businesses.