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 # Catherine Hernandez-Blades is Aflac’s Golden Duck

 


 

 Nov 19, 2019 4:40 PM ET

  Campaign:  [Duckprints in the Community](/news/campaign/duckprints-community)  ![](https://3blcdn.com/styles/carousel_2x/s3/2026-08/Catherine-Hernandez-Blades-Aflac-banner_1786772152.jpg "Catherine Hernandez-Blades, SVP, Chief ESG and Communications Officer, Aflac Photo: Gillian Fry, courtesy Hispanic Executive website")

 Catherine Hernandez-Blades, SVP, Chief ESG and Communications Officer, Aflac Photo: Gillian Fry, courtesy Hispanic Executive website 

 

[Origionally published on Hispanicexecutive.com](https://hispanicexecutive.com/catherine-hernandez-blades-aflac/?fbclid=IwAR0DokLNXXOq-_2wa0G3s3NuNs4gqcpGygn-qehu8tmX1ffLeGPe9Y6rHe8)

By [Sara Deeter](https://hispanicexecutive.com/article_author/sara-deeter/)

No one has been quite ready for Catherine Hernandez-Blades. When she was appointed executive director of the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board, she was the youngest director of a state agency since the Reconstruction. In the aerospace and defense companies she worked for, she was the youngest executive ever promoted to her positions. At Aflac, Hernandez-Blades’s leading-edge environmental, social, and governance (ESG) program has led to the invention of the award-winning social robot known as My Special Aflac Duck, which helps pediatric cancer patients in the US and Japan find comfort and joy in supporting their communication and treatment efforts.

[**Read more here**](https://hispanicexecutive.com/catherine-hernandez-blades-aflac/?fbclid=IwAR0DokLNXXOq-_2wa0G3s3NuNs4gqcpGygn-qehu8tmX1ffLeGPe9Y6rHe8)



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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