An award-winning journalist and internationally recognized parenting expert, Jeannette Kaplun has over 17 years of experience on TV, radio, online media and as a published author. You can connect with her on Twitter (@jeannettekaplun) and on Facebook.
Born in El Paso, Texas, and raised in Chile, Jeannette is truly bilingual and bicultural. Currently she is Todobebé, Inc.´s Chief Content Officer and co-hosts the Spanish-language network TV show ¡Viva la Familia! de Todobebé, which airs on Univision. She is also the author of Todobebé: Todo lo que necesitas saber para el primer año de tu bebé (Rayo, 2006). In 2011 Jeannette won LATISM´s Best Parenting Blogger award.
She also is a contributor to Babble Voices, where she blogs in English at Mamifesto.
In 1999 Jeannette co-founded Todobebe.com, the first pan regional baby and parenting website in Spanish and Portuguese. She began blogging about her pregnancy and motherhood in the early 2000’s, which makes her a true pioneer in the Latino/Hispanic blogging world. In 2010, Todobebe.com received Portada´s Hispanic Digital and Print Media award as Top Content Provider to Hispanic Audiences. In 2006, the company received the Canyon Ranch Institute Prevention Pioneer Award. She has also been crucial in the development of the Todobebé apps and oversees content on vivalafamilia.com and blogsdemamas.com. She also hosted the Todobebé radio shows and vignettes that were syndicated in 75 stations in Latin America.
She has been a speaker at different conferences throughout the US, Mexico and Chile regarding content, social media and online communities, including BlogHer, Blogalicious, EVO, LATISM, Blissdom, Hispanicize, Social Media Week and SheCon.
From 1998 to 2002, she was the co-host for the Discovery Channel Latin America/Iberia’s technology show, “Vida@línea” where she reviewed the latest tech products. Previously she worked as a news reporter in Chile’s Channel 13 and graduated at the top of her class at the prestigious Journalism School of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, which earned her the coveted Maximiano Errázuriz award. In addition, she holds a Bachelor degree in Social Sciences from the Universidad Gabriela Mistral, also in Chile.
In 2002, just weeks after becoming a mother for the first time, Jeannette was named one of the most influential Hispanic journalists by the Hispanic Media 100 and was included in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who of Emerging Leaders. She was also recognized as a Woman of Valor by ATJC in 2008.
Being bilingual has allowed her to be featured in Vogue en Español, People en Español, Vanidades, Buen Hogar, Selecciones, Kena, Rumbo, CNN Radio , La Opinión, Associated Press, Cox Newspapers, Vista Magazine, Sun Sentinel, the Miami Herald, Vista, Revista Mujer, TV y Novelas, Quién, Hola, Bloomberg Radio and Clara, among many others. She was also a guest on Father Albert’s TV Show in 2011.
A photography fan, Jeannette resides in Miami, Florida, with her husband and two children. In 2012 she was part of the Bloggers4Haiti group that visited Haiti two years after the earthquake and continues to be involved in helping the Haitian people. She is also an active supporter or St. Jude´s Children´s Hospital, Share our Strength, Common Threads and other charities.
