Monica C. Lozano
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Monica Cecilia Lozano is an American newspaper editor, the publisher and Chief Executive Officer
of La Opinión
and senior vice president
of its parent company, Impremedia, LLC. Based in Los Angeles, La Opinión is the largest Spanish publication in the United States. She is a member of President Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board
. She was appointed by the California State Legislature
to join Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
's Commission on the 21st Century Economy.
and his Arizona
-born wife, Marta Navarro. Her paternal grandfather, Ignacio E. Lozano, Sr.
, a famous Mexican
journalist was born on the border of Mexico and Texas
. He went to San Antonio, where Lozano's father was born, and in 1913 founded La Prensa, which became the largest, if not the first, Spanish daily publication in the United States. La Prensa sold copies in New York
, Chicago
, and Los Angeles. In 1926, with much help from his wife, Lozano's grandfather founded La Opinión in Los Angeles, where La Prensa had had a particularly large following.
Lozano's father studied journalism
at Notre Dame University and, in 1953, took over La Opinión after the death of her grandfather. Meanwhile, her grandmother, Alicia Elizondo de Lozano, returned to Texas to keep La Prensa in business.
. Although Marta Lozano had studied literature for about three years at UCLA before marriage, she was a stay-at-home mom to Lozano and her siblings, while their father commuted to L.A. to work on the paper. In 1976, Ignacio E. Lozano, Jr.
was appointed US Ambassador to El Salvador
by President Gerald Ford
.
Lozano first attended school in Corona del Mar, but graduated from Santa Catalina School in Monterey in 1974. She then studied sociology
and political science
at the University of Oregon
. While there, she became interested in the new field of women's studies
and worked for the Eugene, Oregon
-based feminist newspaper Women's Press. Leaving the university in 1976, Lozano traveled with a friend through Mexico and South America. She lived in San Francisco, where she earned a degree in printing technology at the City College
. She also worked on a couple of bilingual newspapers. Then in November 1985, she went to work with her family as managing editor
of La Opinión. Early in the following year, her brother, José I. Lozano
, the paper's publisher at that time, sent her to the Poynter Institute
for a two-week intensive training course in media management.
Lozano began to work at La Opinión at a time when AIDS
was still a taboo
issue, especially among the predominantly Catholic Latino
communities, and she fought hard against a lot of prejudice and fear to address the disease. She was also alarmed by the high rates of infant mortality
among Hispanic
women and she worked on a lot of stories covering prenatal care
. Lozano also oversaw an increase of what she called "proactive" political journalism. California Governor Pete Wilson
and Senator
Barbara Boxer
were interviewed in its pages.
She became publisher of El Eco del Valle (in the San Fernando Valley
) in 1990. Her husband, previously working in the circulation department of La Opinión, went to organize the distribution of El Eco del Valle. Around the same time, Lozano was promoted to Associate Publisher, under her brother, at La Opinión.
at the Walt Disney Company since 2000. She is also a director of Bank of America
. She is on the board of Southern California's Weingart Foundation and the National Council of La Raza
. She is a member of the Board of Regents
for the University of California
and the Board of Trustees at the University of Southern California
. Since 2001, she has been on the board at UnionBanCal Corporation
. From 2002-2005, she was a director of the Tenet Healthcare Corporation.
Chief executive officer
A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...
of La Opinión
La Opinión
La Opinión is a Spanish-language daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, USA and distributed throughout the six counties of Southern California. It is the largest Spanish-language newspaper in the United States and second-most read newspaper in Los Angeles . It is published by...
and senior vice president
Vice president
A vice president is an officer in government or business who is below a president in rank. The name comes from the Latin vice meaning 'in place of'. In some countries, the vice president is called the deputy president...
of its parent company, Impremedia, LLC. Based in Los Angeles, La Opinión is the largest Spanish publication in the United States. She is a member of President Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board
President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board
The President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, originally the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, is a panel of non-governmental experts from business, labor, academia and elsewhere that President of the United States Barack Obama created on February 6, 2009. The board reports...
. She was appointed by the California State Legislature
California State Legislature
The California State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of California. It is a bicameral body consisting of the lower house, the California State Assembly, with 80 members, and the upper house, the California State Senate, with 40 members...
to join Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American former professional bodybuilder, actor, businessman, investor, and politician. Schwarzenegger served as the 38th Governor of California from 2003 until 2011....
's Commission on the 21st Century Economy.
Family background
Lozano is one of four children of first generation Mexican-Americans, Ignacio E. Lozano, Jr.Ignacio E. Lozano, Jr.
Ignacio Eugenio Lozano, Jr. is a former United States Ambassador to El Salvador. He was appointed to the ambassadorship by President Gerald Ford in 1976., He resigned the post following the assumption of the presidency by Jimmy Carter....
and his Arizona
Arizona
Arizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix...
-born wife, Marta Navarro. Her paternal grandfather, Ignacio E. Lozano, Sr.
Ignacio E. Lozano, Sr.
Ignacio Eugenio Lozano, Sr. was born in Marín, Nuevo León on Mexico-Texas border. He was a famous journalist of northern Mexico, but he joined the exodus into the United States during the Mexican Revolution., He moved to San Antonio and established a Spanish language bookstore and worked on two...
, a famous Mexican
Mexican people
Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....
journalist was born on the border of Mexico and Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
. He went to San Antonio, where Lozano's father was born, and in 1913 founded La Prensa, which became the largest, if not the first, Spanish daily publication in the United States. La Prensa sold copies in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, and Los Angeles. In 1926, with much help from his wife, Lozano's grandfather founded La Opinión in Los Angeles, where La Prensa had had a particularly large following.
Lozano's father studied journalism
Journalism
Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...
at Notre Dame University and, in 1953, took over La Opinión after the death of her grandfather. Meanwhile, her grandmother, Alicia Elizondo de Lozano, returned to Texas to keep La Prensa in business.
Early life and education
Lozano was raised with her siblings in Newport Beach, Orange County, CaliforniaOrange County, California
Orange County is a county in the U.S. state of California. Its county seat is Santa Ana. As of the 2010 census, its population was 3,010,232, up from 2,846,293 at the 2000 census, making it the third most populous county in California, behind Los Angeles County and San Diego County...
. Although Marta Lozano had studied literature for about three years at UCLA before marriage, she was a stay-at-home mom to Lozano and her siblings, while their father commuted to L.A. to work on the paper. In 1976, Ignacio E. Lozano, Jr.
Ignacio E. Lozano, Jr.
Ignacio Eugenio Lozano, Jr. is a former United States Ambassador to El Salvador. He was appointed to the ambassadorship by President Gerald Ford in 1976., He resigned the post following the assumption of the presidency by Jimmy Carter....
was appointed US Ambassador to El Salvador
United States Ambassador to El Salvador
The following is a list of United States Ambassadors, or other Chiefs of Mission, to El Salvador. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.-Chiefs of Mission:...
by President Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974...
.
Lozano first attended school in Corona del Mar, but graduated from Santa Catalina School in Monterey in 1974. She then studied sociology
Sociology
Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...
and political science
Political science
Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...
at the University of Oregon
University of Oregon
-Colleges and schools:The University of Oregon is organized into eight schools and colleges—six professional schools and colleges, an Arts and Sciences College and an Honors College.- School of Architecture and Allied Arts :...
. While there, she became interested in the new field of women's studies
Women's studies
Women's studies, also known as feminist studies, is an interdisciplinary academic field which explores politics, society and history from an intersectional, multicultural women's perspective...
and worked for the Eugene, Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
Eugene is the second largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Lane County. It is located at the south end of the Willamette Valley, at the confluence of the McKenzie and Willamette rivers, about east of the Oregon Coast.As of the 2010 U.S...
-based feminist newspaper Women's Press. Leaving the university in 1976, Lozano traveled with a friend through Mexico and South America. She lived in San Francisco, where she earned a degree in printing technology at the City College
City College of San Francisco
City College of San Francisco, or CCSF, is a two-year community college in San Francisco, California. The Ocean Avenue campus, in the Ingleside neighborhood, is the college's primary location...
. She also worked on a couple of bilingual newspapers. Then in November 1985, she went to work with her family as managing editor
Managing editor
A managing editor is a senior member of a publication's management team.In the United States, a managing editor oversees and coordinates the publication's editorial activities...
of La Opinión. Early in the following year, her brother, José I. Lozano
José I. Lozano
José Ignacio Lozano is the son of Ignacio E. Lozano, Jr. and Marta Navarro. He is the grandson of La Opinión newspaper founder Ignacio E. Lozano, Sr....
, the paper's publisher at that time, sent her to the Poynter Institute
Poynter Institute
The Poynter Institute is a non-profit school for journalism located in St. Petersburg, Florida. The school's mission statement says that "The Poynter Institute is a school dedicated to teaching and inspiring journalists and media leaders. It promotes excellence and integrity in the practice of...
for a two-week intensive training course in media management.
Marriage, family, and career
Lozano married South American Marcelo Centanino in 1986. From this marriage, she has two children: a son, Santiago (b.1987), and a daughter, Gabriela (b.1989). Before the middle of the 1990s, Lozano and Centanino were divorced.Lozano began to work at La Opinión at a time when AIDS
AIDS
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
was still a taboo
Taboo
A taboo is a strong social prohibition relating to any area of human activity or social custom that is sacred and or forbidden based on moral judgment, religious beliefs and or scientific consensus. Breaking the taboo is usually considered objectionable or abhorrent by society...
issue, especially among the predominantly Catholic Latino
Latino
The demonyms Latino and Latina , are defined in English language dictionaries as:* "a person of Latin-American descent."* "A Latin American."* "A person of Hispanic, especially Latin-American, descent, often one living in the United States."...
communities, and she fought hard against a lot of prejudice and fear to address the disease. She was also alarmed by the high rates of infant mortality
Infant mortality
Infant mortality is defined as the number of infant deaths per 1000 live births. Traditionally, the most common cause worldwide was dehydration from diarrhea. However, the spreading information about Oral Re-hydration Solution to mothers around the world has decreased the rate of children dying...
among Hispanic
Hispanic
Hispanic is a term that originally denoted a relationship to Hispania, which is to say the Iberian Peninsula: Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain. During the Modern Era, Hispanic sometimes takes on a more limited meaning, particularly in the United States, where the term means a person of ...
women and she worked on a lot of stories covering prenatal care
Prenatal care
Prenatal care refers to the medical and nursing care recommended for women before and during pregnancy. The aim of good prenatal care is to detect any potential problems early, to prevent them if possible , and to direct the woman to appropriate specialists, hospitals, etc...
. Lozano also oversaw an increase of what she called "proactive" political journalism. California Governor Pete Wilson
Pete Wilson
Peter Barton "Pete" Wilson is an American politician from California. Wilson, a Republican, served as the 36th Governor of California , the culmination of more than three decades in the public arena that included eight years as a United States Senator , eleven years as Mayor of San Diego and...
and Senator
United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...
Barbara Boxer
Barbara Boxer
Barbara Levy Boxer is the junior United States Senator from California . A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives ....
were interviewed in its pages.
She became publisher of El Eco del Valle (in the San Fernando Valley
San Fernando Valley
The San Fernando Valley is an urbanized valley located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area of southern California, United States, defined by the dramatic mountains of the Transverse Ranges circling it...
) in 1990. Her husband, previously working in the circulation department of La Opinión, went to organize the distribution of El Eco del Valle. Around the same time, Lozano was promoted to Associate Publisher, under her brother, at La Opinión.
Board seats
Lozano has been on the board of directorsBoard of directors
A board of directors is a body of elected or appointed members who jointly oversee the activities of a company or organization. Other names include board of governors, board of managers, board of regents, board of trustees, and board of visitors...
at the Walt Disney Company since 2000. She is also a director of Bank of America
Bank of America
Bank of America Corporation, an American multinational banking and financial services corporation, is the second largest bank holding company in the United States by assets, and the fourth largest bank in the U.S. by market capitalization. The bank is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina...
. She is on the board of Southern California's Weingart Foundation and the National Council of La Raza
National Council of La Raza
The National Council of La Raza is a non-profit and non-partisan advocacy group in the United States, focused on improving opportunities for Hispanics. It is sometimes confused with La Raza Unida...
. She is a member of the Board of Regents
Board of Regents
In the United States, a board often governs public institutions of higher education, which include both state universities and community colleges. In each US state, such boards may govern either the state university system, individual colleges and universities, or both. In general they operate as...
for the University of California
University of California
The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...
and the Board of Trustees at the University of Southern California
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
. Since 2001, she has been on the board at UnionBanCal Corporation
UnionBanCal Corporation
UnionBanCal Corporation is a bank holding company in San Francisco, United States. UnionBanCal has assets of $68.7 billion at March 31, 2009.It is a member of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group.-Sections:*Community Banking and Investment Services Group...
. From 2002-2005, she was a director of the Tenet Healthcare Corporation.
External links
- Weingart Foundation (of which Lozano is a director)
- La Opinión (online)