Yuri Cunza is a Hispanic-American media professional, filmmaker, journalist, visual artist, and business and Hispanic community advocate. Cunza serves as President and CEO of the Nashville Area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, is the founder and editor in chief of the Spanish language newspaper La Noticia (Hispanic Paper Publishing) and owner of Y&K Entertainment a film production and media consulting company based in Nashville.
Yuri Cunza was elected last July 2010 as Council Member at Large to the Nashville branch of the Screen Actors Guild (now SAG-AFTRA). He serves on the board of Historic Nashville Inc, Sister Cities of Nashville and the community-based HIV/AIDS service organization Nashville Cares.
As a guest speaker for various groups , Cunza has appeared before dozens of corporate, institutional, educational and government audiences including, the U.S Attorney's Office, The United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Metro Nashville Police Department Academy, FBI, Nashville Fire Department, Nashville Mayor's office and Nashville Metro Public Schools (NMPS), Meeting Planners International, Walmart/SAM's Club, McNeelly Piggot and Fox, the Association of Public Accountants, Jefferson Street Missionary Baptist Church, The Urban League, Kiwanis Club, IMF's MLK Annual Celebration, NAACP, The University of Memphis, Boy Scouts Club, Tennessee State University (TSU), Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), Vanderbilt University and more.
A Nashville resident for now 15 years, Yuri Cunza became a U.S Citizen on September 22, 2006 at a citizenship ceremony presided by United States federal judge Todd Campbell at The Hermitage, home of U.S President Andrew Jackson. In March 2010, 2011 and 2012, Cunza was named in The Nashville Post's "In Charge" list of business and community leaders who are writing Music City 's success story.
Yuri Cunza holds a B.F.A in Film Directing from Watkins College of Art and has earned several professional certificates from the Mendoza School of Business at University of Notre Dame through through the Non Profit Executive Programs offered by the University of Notre Dame in partnership with the USHCC Foundation.
Yuri Cunza was elected last July 2010 as Council Member at Large to the Nashville branch of the Screen Actors Guild (now SAG-AFTRA). He serves on the board of Historic Nashville Inc, Sister Cities of Nashville and the community-based HIV/AIDS service organization Nashville Cares.
As a guest speaker for various groups , Cunza has appeared before dozens of corporate, institutional, educational and government audiences including, the U.S Attorney's Office, The United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Metro Nashville Police Department Academy, FBI, Nashville Fire Department, Nashville Mayor's office and Nashville Metro Public Schools (NMPS), Meeting Planners International, Walmart/SAM's Club, McNeelly Piggot and Fox, the Association of Public Accountants, Jefferson Street Missionary Baptist Church, The Urban League, Kiwanis Club, IMF's MLK Annual Celebration, NAACP, The University of Memphis, Boy Scouts Club, Tennessee State University (TSU), Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), Vanderbilt University and more.
A Nashville resident for now 15 years, Yuri Cunza became a U.S Citizen on September 22, 2006 at a citizenship ceremony presided by United States federal judge Todd Campbell at The Hermitage, home of U.S President Andrew Jackson. In March 2010, 2011 and 2012, Cunza was named in The Nashville Post's "In Charge" list of business and community leaders who are writing Music City 's success story.
Yuri Cunza holds a B.F.A in Film Directing from Watkins College of Art and has earned several professional certificates from the Mendoza School of Business at University of Notre Dame through through the Non Profit Executive Programs offered by the University of Notre Dame in partnership with the USHCC Foundation.
