Maria Bastidas

Maria Bastidas is the digital content director of Mundo Hispano Digital Network.

As a digital media professional, she has played key roles at MHDN’s flagship media property, MundoHispanico.com, as it transformed from local print media to a national digital business. In the last five years, Bastidas has developed and managed a team of creators and journalists, digital video production, live broadcasts, and the newly launched lifestyle portals, which focus on passion topics such as health, food, entertainment, and personal finance. Bastidas has developed the strategies for content creation, social media distribution and digital video production that made MundoHispanico the number one independently owned Spanish-language digital media company in the U.S. She is also the leader of the native and influencer marketing campaigns MundoHispanico created for clients such as Toyota, NASCAR, the NFL, and Macy’s.

Maria has been deeply involved in the Hispanic community since 2000 when she came to the U.S. from Venezuela where she started her career in TV news production. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Communication from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Venezuela and lives in Duluth, Georgia with her husband, son and two daughters.