Monica Cecilia Lozano (born July 21, 1956) is the president of the College Futures Foundation, based in San Francisco. Previously she was an American newspaper editor, the publisher and CEO of ''

La Opinión ''La Opinión'' is a Spanish-language daily newspaper and website based in Los Angeles, California. It is the largest Spanish-language newspaper in the United States and the second-most read newspaper in Los Angeles (after ''The Los Angeles Time ...

'' and CEO of its parent company, ImpreMedia, LLC. Based in Los Angeles, ''La Opinión'' is the largest Spanish publication in the United States.Latino Leaders: The National Magazine of the Successful American Latino, Feb-March, 2005 by Rick Laezman She was a member of President Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board."Monica Lozano joins President Obama's Economic Advisory Board," The Latina Voz
/ref> She was appointed by the California State Legislature to join Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Commission on the 21st Century Economy.

Early life and education

Born in

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, Lozano was raised with her siblings in

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.Interview of Monica Lozano by Shirley Biagi, Pg.1, Washington Press Club Foundation, 13 December 1993
Her father, Ignacio E. Lozano Jr., was a diplomat. Her paternal grandfather, Ignacio E. Lozano, Sr., a Mexican journalist, was born on the border of Mexico and

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. In 1913, he founded ''La Prensa'' in

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which became the largest Spanish daily publication in the United States.Hernandez, Sandra: "Stuck in Translation,"
LA Weekly, 17 June 1999 ''La Prensa'' sold copies in

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, 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. Although Lozano had studied literature for about three years at

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before marriage, she was a stay-at-home mother 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 U.S. ambassador to El Salvador by President Gerald Ford. Lozano first attended school in

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, but graduated from

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in 1974. She then studied

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and

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at the

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. While there, she became interested in the new field of

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and worked for the Eugene, Oregon-based feminist newspaper ''Women's Press''.

Career

After graduating from college 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

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of ''La Opinión''. Early in the following year, her brother, José I. Lozano, the paper's publisher at that time, sent her to the

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for a two-week intensive training course in media management.Interview of Monica Lozano by Shirley Biagi, Pg.2, Washington Press Club Foundation, 14 December 1993
Lozano has been on the board of directors at the

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since 2000. She was named an independent director of Bank of America in April 2006. She is on the board of Southern California's Weingart Foundation and the

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. She is a member of the

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for the

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and the Board of Trustees at the

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. Since 2001, she has been on the board at

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. In 2012, Lozano was named to the board of the Rockefeller Foundation.Board of Trustees
Rockefeller Foundation webpage plus associated bio page. Retrieved 2012-12-27. From 2002-2005, she was a director of the Tenet Healthcare Corporation.
usinessweek profile for Monica C. Lozano Since 2014, Lozano has sat on the Board of The Cisneros Center for New Americans. In March 2016, she was appointed to

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’s board of directors. She is also a member of the Inter-American Dialogue. In January 2021, she was appointed to the board of directors of

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Personal life

Lozano married Marcelo Centanino in 1986. The couple had two children before divorcing. Lozano began to work at ''La Opinión'' at a time when AIDS was still a

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issue, especially among the predominantly

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communities, and she fought hard against prejudice and fear to address the disease. She was also alarmed by the high rates of infant mortality among

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women and she worked on stories covering

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. Lozano also oversaw an increase of what she called "proactive" political journalism. California Governor

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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.

Awards

* NHMC Impact Awards (2021) (NHMC Impact Award Outstanding Leadership)

References

External links

College Futures Foundation (staff bio page)Monica Lozano Corporate Bio

Weingart Foundation
(of which Lozano is a director)
La Opinión (online)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lozano, Monica C. 1956 births American newspaper editors American people of Mexican descent American publishing chief executives American women chief executives Businesspeople from Los Angeles Bank of America California Democrats City College of San Francisco alumni Directors of Apple Inc. Directors of Bank of America Directors of The Walt Disney Company Living people Lozano family University of Oregon alumni Women newspaper editors Members of the Inter-American Dialogue