Bel Hernandez Castillo

Bel Hernandez Castillo, CEO of Latin Heat Media. A trailblazing journalist and media powerhouse who has dedicated her career to amplifying Latino voices in Hollywood first by co-founding Latin Heat the 1st entertainment trade covering Latinos in Hollywood. She has produced four English language TV talk shows featuring all Latina hosts, one of them TheTRENDTalk winning a Telly Award. She was named Publisher of the year NHPA; selected for the Inspirational Woman by the Los Angeles Times. She is also one of the co-founder of LATINAFest a community organizations focused on working to elevate, and promote through IRL events, the "Latina Impact" as one of the largest group of entrepreneurs in the U.S. and part of a major economic force of U.S. Latinos whose consumer power has reached $4.1 trillion in yearly GDP, according to the Latino Donor Collaborative.