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Denisse Pumagualle, of Fall River, Staff Associate at Bristol Community College, was the recent recipient of Bristol’s 2020 Hispanic/Latino(a)/Latinx Community Service Award, presented at the college’s virtual Hispanic Heritage Month Opening on Thursday, October 1, 2020.
Denisse serves as a Staff Associate for Bristol Community College’s Television Services/FRCMedia (Fall River Community Media, Channel 95) team and has been a valued member of the college’s staff since she was a student intern in 2013. She is active in producing engaging videos for the college as well as for the Fall River cable television audience.
Denisse’s nomination highlighted her positive impact in the community through her passion for journalism and social justice to keep our local Hispanic communities informed. Earlier this year, she began producing a weekly cable television program on FRCMedia named Southcoast Latinx, dedicated to educating the Hispanic community in Fall River and the Southcoast region about COVID-19. The program has evolved into a general-purpose program and is also streamed on Facebook.
The nomination also cited Denisse’s service as a multimedia editorial assistant at The Standard-Times Newspaper/SouthCoast Today, in New Bedford, where she produced podcasts for the region’s Hispanic community, along with general assignment reporting.
Since emigrating from Ecuador, Denisse has taken advantage of her opportunities to advance her career and community. She graduated from Bristol Community College in 2015 with an associate degree in communications transfer, where she became interested in journalism and served as editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, The Observer (now The Hawk).
In addition to her role at Bristol, Denisse serves at the community media station in Swansea and as an Outreach Coordinator for the U.S. Census Bureau, working within the Hispanic community across Massachusetts. She has also previously served as Publication Coordinator / Youth Services Coordinator for Dream Out Loud Center for the Arts, in New Bedford and currently sits on the Board of Directors.
