Hello the world!  My name is Hubert Odias.  I am from Haiti, and I’ve made South Florida my home for more than three decades.  On May 5th,  2017, I graduated from Florida Atlantic University with a Bachelor of Arts in Multimedia Journalism.  I’ve also had a previous Bachelor’s in Business administration from Lynn University in Boca Raton.

Currently, I am a freelance writer and an Intern with the Odyssey Online Magazine.  Besides school writing experiences, my internship for the past two years has made me a better writer and editor. 

The feedbacks in the form of tweets and messages I’ve received from professionals around the world are some of the incentives that keep me going forward.  I also draw my strength from writers who set the stage for me to be able to make my journalism dream a reality.

In this context, I am referring to Booker T. Washington and Michel Moreau. The former was a well-known American intellectual who founded Tuskegee Institute; the latter is a well-known Haitian notable in my hometown.  Both of these writers are my intellectual role models because the efforts and sacrifices they went through to succeed in their writing career have inspired my own.

My goal is to be a Watchdog, someone who digs out the news and reports it; someone who serves as a mirror to his audience, and someone who makes a good representation of the media and the organization he represents.  This is my journalistic mission, and I’ll be busy for the rest of my life materializing it.

The truth about all this is that I am curious about facts and the world around me.  I believe that writing and photography are the vehicles that will carry me through the hills and the valleys of that journey.  It is a fascinating and a captivating undertaking.  Journalism is above all a vocation that deeply permeates every fiber of my being.

The reason is simple: writing has always been my passion and journalism my dreamed career.  It is in my blood and something I live for.  For this reason, I went back to school to fulfill this lifelong dream of becoming a journalist.  Now that I have graduated this spring semester, I already have before me a world to explore and one million things to do, including to inform, to educate, to guide and to entertain.

The baton of journalism has been passed on to me.  Therefore, I am ready to tell stories and to report facts with the prescribed tenet of the profession.

Hubert Odias