Felicia J. Persaud (Global Communications Expert) is a multiple award-winning, Caribbean- born journalist, columnist and activist who founded digital media solutions company, Hard Beat Communications, Inc., in 2004. She currently serves as the CMO of the company, which is a pioneer in digital media publishing in the Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora region via News 2 Americas Now.dot com, formerly CaribWorld News and its 20 other websites. Hard Beat, a PR and AD agency has worked with many top Caribbean brands, is also Felicia’s brainchild as is CaribPR Wire, the only newswire of the Caribbean and part of the UBM plc company, the PR Newswire; and Invest Caribbean Now, an annual investment forum. Felicia is currently a news analyst on Caribbean issues on WSEE TV/ One Caribbean Television, the CBS of the Caribbean; an Immigration Columnist for the 100- year-old New York Amsterdam News paper; a weekly panelist on WLIB radio in New York and the Uhuru Radio Network in Central Florida and sits on the board of the Bowling Green Association and the Monroe College School of Hospitality Management and Culinary Arts. She is a former chair of the Caribbean Tourism Organization’s Diaspora Committee of NY, founder of CARIB ID, a lobbying group that secured a bill in the U.S. Congress and Senate to call for Caribbean nationals to have their own category on U.S. Census forms. Felicia is a renowned Immigration Expert on CNN, AP, Reuters and other media outlets.