MIAMI – Pulse is WPBT2’s a public affairs program about the Caribbean and the Caribbean-American experience in South Florida. Lunched in July 2009 Pulse is approaching its first year anniversary and has lots to share with this month being Caribbean Month.
Jessy Schuster is a multimedia producer, voice-over talent and host of WPBT2’s new public affairs program, Pulse.
As a multimedia producer for WPBT2’s video-sharing website uVu, Schuster has covered cultural, political and educational events throughout the South Florida area. She has worked alongside numerous non-profit organizations and foundations to encourage citizens of Miami-Dade and Broward Counties to express their views via online video segments. Once a month, Jessy also hosts uVuTV, which highlights a particular neighborhood or organization in South Florida. uVuTV’s goal is to take the concept of community engagement to a new level.
Her latest WPBT2 venture is hosting Pulse, a monthly Caribbean public affairs program she hopes accomplishes a better understanding of the island community. “We live in such a multicultural city that it’s amazing to see how most people don’t know about each others culture beyond the usual stereotypes and clichés,” she says. “Hopefully Pulse can shed some light on the Caribbean community and way of life in South Florida.”
Fluent in three languages, French, English and Creole, Schuster is a voice-over talent dubbing Latin telenovelas (soap operas) for distribution in Europe, Africa and the Caribbean.
Schuster started her broadcast career as the host of a weekly entertainment show En Vogue for the Haitian Television Network (HTN) in 2003. After her stint at HTN, she decided to further her education and enrolled at Miami-Dade College and later the University of Miami. While in college, she interned for the Miami Herald as a reporter, and ultimately became a freelance writer for the newspaper after graduation.
Jessy Schuster has also attended the Universite of Fouillole in Guadeloupe, Marc Bloch University in France, and earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science and Communication with an emphasis in Print Journalism from the University of Miami. She was born in France and raised in Guadeloupe, a French island in the Caribbean.
