Gitzel Puente
Hi! I’m a former TV reporter & current translator. Fluent in English, Spanish, French & Italian - B2.
29/10/2023
Happy Halloween! 🎃 This year I didn’t dress up, but I had a fun time celebrating this American tradition with international visitors from Brazil, India and Tajikistan! Our first stop was the city’s old morgue (now a bar and restaurant) in Colorado Springs. 👻
The Rabbit hole, Colorado Springs
24/09/2023
Happy First Day of Fall! 🍂🍁 Feliz inicio del otoño! Benvenuto autunno! Bienvenue automne!
The colors are really looking beautiful here in Minneapolis! Lucky to be here on assignment to witness the colorful changing of the seasons. 🧡❤️
05/09/2023
Back in Oklahoma visiting friends just in time for Labor Day! ❤️ Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend, and happy start to the week ahead!
29/05/2023
Happy birthday to my beautiful sis and happy engagement!! 🎉💓💍 My heart is full this weekend being here to celebrate! Felicidades Lysbeth! Te quiero mucho hermana.
10/05/2023
Feliz día de las madres a mi bella mami Maricela y a todas las madres en este día! 🥰♥️ Today, we celebrate Mother’s Day in Mexico! I called my mom this morning, and she said “Oh I didn’t even remember because I’m American now.” She’s so funny 😅
07/05/2023
Happy Sunday! Feliz domingo! Bon dimanche! Buona domenica! ♥️ Springtime with friends, flowers & coffee. ☺️
29/04/2023
Great way to start the day with the Red Cross installing smoke alarms and interpreting for Spanish-speaking homeowners! ⛑️🏠 I got paired with the best team, Anthony and Ta! We installed 15 alarms and passed out safety information to prevent home fires.
Our whole team installed 67 alarms ✔️ in 27 homes ✔️in Prince William County, VA.
Organization: American Red Cross of the National Capital & Greater Chesapeake Region.
Special shout out to the alum guys from Beta Alpha Omega - Northern VA Iotas!
13/04/2023
Nice patio weather last night at my first sponsored networking event! 🎉Getting the word out about Puente Pro and translation services between English, Spanish & French. 🗣️
If you need translation help for any written documents, like marketing materials, websites & more - reach out at [email protected]. For more details: https://www.puentepro.com
27/03/2023
The annual Cherry Blossom Festival kicked off this weekend when the flowers are in peak bloom! 🌸 Did you know the cherry blossom trees in our capital were a gift from Japan to the U.S. in 1912? 🇯🇵
About 3,000 of them are planted around the Tidal Basin and hundreds of thousands of visitors come every year to experience the beauty. The trees were a gift to symbolize friendship and foster goodwill between both countries. 🌏
20/03/2023
Happy First Day of Spring! 🌷Feliz comienzo de la primavera! Bon printemps! It’s looking colorful in the east coast. Here are some photos from North Carolina this weekend visiting my friend 💓. We strolled around Duke Gardens and Chapel Hill.
09/03/2023
Happy International Women’s Day! Feliz Día de la Mujer! Bonne Journée des Femmes! Buona Festa della Donna! 🌎💁🏽♀️
22/02/2023
Beautiful weekend trip to Virginia to visit family friends 💓 A mini reunion after 22 years - wow, time sure does fly!
09/02/2023
As you know, I can’t go too long without joining a language group! Last night I met this wonderful group of Italian speakers from all over the 🌎 who share the same passion for 🇮🇹!
Grazie mille a tutti per la bella serata con buon cibo (pizza diavola), aperol spritz e conversazione. Ci vediamo la prossima volta!
🍕: PUPATELLA
20/01/2023
You never know what will happen when working remote at a coffee shop! ✨ Thanks to the artist who drew this portrait this morning. ¡Gracias Main Street Portrait y feliz viernes a todos!
18/01/2023
A fun roadtrip to San Diego to see friends during the holiday weekend and !
First photo: Reunion with Jesus Alan and Ana who have been a constant in my life since high school. We walked around Little Italy and had🍦from Salt & Straw Ice Cream!
Second photo: I found a cute coffee shop in North Park called Mystic Mocha Cafe. ☕️ It was a rainy morning, while I worked on a translation project with Puente Pro. 💻
Third photo: Great drinks (mine was a Bloody Mary) to accompany brunch at Coco Maya by Miss B's Caribbean restaurant.🍹
Fourth photo: A walk on Pacific Beach Pier to watch the sunset. 🌅
Fifth photo: Reunion with Zac at One Door North. We worked together at KJRH Channel 2 in Tulsa! 📺
09/01/2023
Grateful for another year! ♡ I celebrated my birthday this weekend with friends and family! 🎉 Thank you, gracias, merci, grazie, danke, obrigada for all the birthday wishes this year from near and far! 🌎
31/12/2022
Last hike of 2022! ✨ Grateful to see another day, and wishing you many blessings for the new year! ❤️
12/12/2022
¡Lindo fin de semana celebrando el matrimonio de mi prima al lado del mar! 🥂♥️ Beautiful weekend celebrating my cousin’s wedding next to the sea!
08/12/2022
Spreading the word about Puente Pro translation services: French - English - Spanish 👩🏽💼🌎
More info: https://linkin.bio/puentepro
01/12/2022
Happy first day of December! ¡Feliz inicio de diciembre! Bon début de mois de décembre! Buon inizio di dicembre! ✨
Here are a few photos from this past weekend in one of my favorite places in Arizona - Sedona. 🌄 Majestic red rock scenery everywhere you look. The last photo is of the beautiful Tlaquepaque Village shopping center full of picturesque shops and restaurants!
18/11/2022
Beautiful snowy views of downtown!! ☃️❄️
17/11/2022
Feliz Día de Acción de Gracias/Happy Thanksgiving from La Cosecha/The Harvest! 👏🏼 We distributed fresh groceries and turkeys at the weekly food distribution on 41st St and Highway 169. 🥬🍎🍏
06/11/2022
Such an honor to emcee this year’s Dancing with the Tulsa Stars! 🎤🪩✨ Thank you, gracias San Miguel School of Tulsa for inviting me to be part of the fabulous evening to fundraise for local students’ education. Congratulations to the winners! 🕺🏼💃🏽
04/11/2022
So happy to share I’ve been working with the YMCA of Greater Tulsa for several months now to translate some of their documents before today’s grand opening of its newest location - the Y at East Central! 🎉 They also have bilingual staff working at this location to provide language access services!
02/11/2022
Such beautiful autumn colors this season! Bellos colores de otoño esta temporada! Des belles couleurs d’automne cette saison ♥️🍂 La stagione dei colori più belli è l’autunno!
01/11/2022
Hope everyone had a safe & happy Halloween 🎃👻🍬 While I didn’t dress up this year, I had fun the last few years! 📸: Velma, Meghan Markle, Sandy & Bonnie.
26/10/2022
I’m back in the U.S. after 90 days in Europe learning Italian 🇮🇹, and I’d like to share an exciting announcement about my new venture! https://puentepro.com/
I launched Puente Pro, LLC to provide important translation services to help bridge linguistic barriers (and thanks to amazing clients), I’ve been providing this since May! Now, it’s time to market and build new relationships ☺️ Please follow and share my new page for Puente Pro translation services.
Thank you! Gracias! Merci!
📸: Brittany Close Photography
Hi! Hola! Bonjour! 😊 Let me introduce myself. My name is Gitzel Puente, and I'm the founder of Puente Pro, LLC. I'm a lover of languages and different cultures and am fluent in English, Spanish and French. 🌎️ I would consider my Italian language skills intermediate at the moment, but one step at a time!
I'm a native Spanish speaker born to Mexican parents 🇲🇽 and was born in the U.S. 🇺🇸 I grew up in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico until I was seven years old and then moved to my hometown of Yuma, Arizona.
I decided to launch this venture after nearly nine years as a local TV reporter and two years working as a bilingual communications officer for City government because I saw a need to bridge the language barrier gap, particularly within the Hispanic community. I've been lucky enough to work with amazing clients who see the importance of accurately translating information for their Spanish-speaking partners! 👏🏽
Puente Pro provides quality assurance and a fast delivery of translation services, while keeping in mind the cultural context. To learn more about the types of documents translated, clients I've worked with and contact information to get started on any of your translation needs, visit my linkin bio! https://linkin.bio/puentepro
17/10/2022
Making beautiful memories with my sisters in Lucerne and Mt. Pilatus!🇨🇭Last stop in this amazing European journey before going back to the states!
10/10/2022
The Puente Sisters take on Italia 🇮🇹♥️ Ha sido una linda experiencia viajar juntas, comer, reir y explorar de este bello país!
📸: Roma, Firenze, Lucca, Pisa
13/09/2022
The city’s center lit by candlelight tonight for the “Luminara di Santa Croce” ✨ Another beautiful tradition in Lucca! Today, September 13, the procession of the Volto Santo (Holy Face) takes place in the city’s center. I had no idea I would be experiencing so many wonderful Lucchese things when I decided to come study here two years ago. 🙏🏼
More info:
https://www.turismo.lucca.it/en/volto-santo
Anchor/Reporter
Hello. Hola. Bonjour.
My name is Gitzel. I’m a weekday reporter and weekend morning anchor at KJRH-Channel 2, the NBC-affiliate in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I grew up in southern Arizona by the Mexico-U.S. border and earned my Bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism from Arizona State University in 2011. I earned my Master’s degree in Mass Communications from Oklahoma State University on December 2017. Before starting at Channel 2, I reported at the local NBC stations in Palm Springs (KMIR) and San Diego (KNSD).
I’ve had the opportunity to report on different topics that include education, politics, crime, breaking news and natural disasters.
I have been honored to have been nominated for an Emmy twice! The most recent in 2019 for team coverage on the state-wide teacher walkout in Oklahoma. In 2015, I was nominated in the news breaking category about a little boy from Joshua Tree, CA who was swept away in a flash flood and miraculously survived.
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