Ileana Bravo
A familiar face to television viewers for the past three decades, Ileana Bravo is a respected, award-winning journalist and media professional.
Known for her journalistic style of in-depth reporting, she has covered significant news stories locally, nationally, and globally. She reported the news for South Florida television network affiliates, and then specialized in Health & Medical reporting for NBC6, where she was nationally syndicated on NBC stations.
Recipient of four regional Emmy awards for excellence in writing and reporting, as well as the prestigious Alfred I. DuPont–Columbia University Award, and George Foster Peabody Award for team coverage of Hurricane Andrew as NBC6 Health News Anchor.
Her television broadcast career started upon graduation from the University of Miami when she quickly earned her wings during a tumultuous era of drug wars, riots, mass migrations/revolutions in the Caribbean and Latin America, and record-breaking homicides. She was the only South Florida TV journalist to travel to Cuba on the high seas to cover the historic Mariel Boat Lift.
She transitioned from television news to form Ileana Bravo Productions, a consulting firm where she quickly garnered attention for her specialized work as an on-camera spokesperson, a voiceover artist, and media, marketing & communications training.
She focuses on her passion– health and medicine--- concentrating in that niche market with on-camera media campaigns representing most South Florida hospital systems: Baptist Health Systems, University of Miami School of Medicine, Broward Health, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Cleveland Clinic, Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, and AvMed Health.
She serves as a spokesperson for University of Miami/UHealth Hospital Systems, moderating webinars with physicians and patients; and appearing in Spanish in bi-monthly sponsored television medical interstitials on Telemundo51 South Florida, “Cuidando Su Salud.”
She has been a spokesperson for national and international companies such as Whole Foods Markets, Del Monte Fresh International, and Goodwill Industries.
She is also a skilled media trainer facilitating training for a number of companies, including MasterCard Worldwide where she worked with top executives on a year-long project.
““Why settle for mediocrity when excellence can be achieved.””
Her Civic and Charitable Community Work includes past and present service to the following:
Chair of The Miami Beach Cultural Arts Council
Board Member and Council of Chairmen for the American Red Cross, Greater Miami & the Keys chapter
Board Member Miami Museum of Science & Planetarium
Board Member Jackson Memorial Foundation
Board Chair of the Miami-Dade American Heart Association
Advisory Board Member of "Women of Tomorrow”
Dame of the American Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, an ancient order of chivalry dedicated to defending the catholic faith and committed to the care of the sick and the poor.
She is a proud University of Miami graduate who was named “Alumnus of the Year” by her alma mater U-M College of Arts and Sciences in 1990.