Caridad (Cari) Hernandez

  • News Director
  • WUSA9-DC

Caridad Hernandez currently serves as the News Director for WUSA9-TEGNA, the CBS
affiliate WUSA9 in Washington, DC.
Hernandez takes pride in leading the team in its mission to Inspire, Inform and Impact. She is dedicated to partnering with journalists to bring truth to power, and serve their communities through powerful storytelling and producing.
Her decades long experience as an executive producer is attributed to her time at television stations
in Miami, Atlanta and Philadelphia. Caridad is a graduate of Florida
International University where she earned a degree in Broadcast Journalism.
She currently serves on the board of Urgent Inc. and gives back by volunteering
with the Asian American Journalist Association where co-facilitates the Executive
Leadership Program for emerging media leaders.
Caridad Hernandez is the proud mother of a young adult daughter.