About Bond

Linda is a 13-time Emmy Award-winning journalist. Some of her broadcasting highlights include traveling to Haiti and Cuba on assignment, covering numerous hurricanes, including Andrew, Charley, Irma, and, most recently, Hurricane Milton. Linda anchored live specials and continued coverage as the Tampa Bay Lightning chased the cup and ultimately won the Stanley Cup Championship! She also landed the only local TV interview with Ann Romney during the Republican National Convention, held here in Tampa Bay in 2012. She’s hosted or anchored many live events, including the Martin Luther King and Gasparilla parades, and NASA space shuttle launches.

She is a passionate advocate and leader in the Tampa Bay community. Linda has served as a keynote speaker at many local events, including the Women of Influence luncheon hosted by the Tampa Chamber of Commerce and the Hispanic Man and Woman of the Year awards sponsored by the Tampa Hispanic Heritage, Inc. Linda has a heart for helping to raise funds for those who need it most. She has hosted the local MDA Telethon for more than 10 years, emceed the local Dancing with the Stars event that benefits local charities, and the Florida Hospital Pepin Heart Hospital’s Valentine event, as well as events for St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital.

Linda was very active with the American Cancer Society’s Reach to Recovery and Making Strides Against Breast Cancer events long before her own diagnosis of breast cancer in 2011, because her mother was a breast cancer survivor. The disease finally took her mother’s life in 1995. Since Linda’s own diagnosis and recovery, she’s been asked to be a local emcee for the American Cancer Society events. She supports the Face of Courage non-profit as well as the My Hope Chest that funds reconstruction for women who do not have insurance. Every year, Linda donates proceeds raised from A Shoot for a Cure to the Florida Hospital Foundation to help fund mammograms for women without insurance. 

When not working as a journalist or speaking at community events, you can find Linda writing her next novel under her pen name, Linda Bond. She also has two stepchildren, an adopted son from Cuba, and two biological children. They are now working as a doctor, nurse, paramedic, and pilot. The baby is at the University of Florida studying Psychology. She and her husband Jorge enjoy volunteering at non-profits and supporting Tampa’s NHL Lightning, NFL Buccaneers, and MLB Rays. They have a big, busy, loving, traditional Cuban family, deeply rooted in the Tampa Bay community!