Monica Cecilia Lozano (born July 21, 1956) is the president of the College Futures Foundation, based in San Francisco.^[1] Previously she was an American newspaper editor, the publisher and CEO ofLa Opinión^[2] and CEO of its parent company,ImpreMedia, LLC.^[3] Based in Los Angeles,La Opinión is the largest Spanish publication in the United States.^[4] She was a member ofPresident Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board.^[5][6] She was appointed by theCalifornia State Legislature to join GovernorArnold Schwarzenegger's Commission on the 21st Century Economy.^[7]

Born inLos Angeles, Lozano was raised with her siblings inNewport Beach,Orange County, California.^[8] Her father,Ignacio E. Lozano Jr., was a diplomat.^[8] Her paternal grandfather,Ignacio E. Lozano, Sr., aMexican journalist, was born on the border of Mexico andTexas.^[8] In 1913, he foundedLa Prensa inSan Antonio which became the largest Spanish daily publication in the United States.^[8][9]La Prensa sold copies inNew York City,Chicago, and Los Angeles. In 1926, with much help from his wife, Lozano's grandfather foundedLa Opinión in Los Angeles, whereLa Prensa had had a particularly large following.^[8]

Although Lozano had studied literature for about three years atUCLA 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.^[8] In 1976,Ignacio E. Lozano, Jr. was appointedU.S. ambassador to El Salvador by PresidentGerald Ford.^[8]

Lozano first attended school inCorona del Mar, but graduated fromSanta Catalina School inMonterey in 1974.^[8] She then studiedsociology andpolitical science at theUniversity of Oregon.^[8] While there, she became interested in the new field ofwomen's studies and worked for theEugene, Oregon-based feminist newspaperWomen's Press.^[8]

After graduating from college in 1976, Lozano traveled with a friend through Mexico and South America.^[8] She lived in San Francisco, where she earned a degree in printing technology at theCity College.^[8][10][11] She also worked on a couple ofbilingual newspapers.^[8] Then in November 1985, she went to work with her family asmanaging editor ofLa Opinión.^[8] Early in the following year, her brother,José I. Lozano, the paper's publisher at that time, sent her to thePoynter Institute for a two-week intensive training course in media management.^[12]

Lozano has been on theboard of directors at theWalt Disney Company since 2000.^[2][9] She was named an independent director of Bank of America in April 2006.^[13][14] She is on the board of Southern California's Weingart Foundation and theNational Council of La Raza.^[2][5] She is a member of theBoard of Regents for theUniversity of California and theBoard of Trustees at theUniversity of Southern California.^[2] Since 2001, she has been on the board atUnionBanCal Corporation.^[15] In 2012, Lozano was named to the board of theRockefeller Foundation.^[3] From 2002-2005, she was a director of theTenet Healthcare Corporation.^[15] Since 2014, Lozano has sat on the Board of The Cisneros Center for New Americans.^[16] In March 2016, she was appointed toTarget’s board of directors.^[17] She is also a member of theInter-American Dialogue.^[18] In January 2021, she was appointed to the board of directors ofApple Inc.^[19]

Lozano married Marcelo Centanino in 1986. The couple had two children before divorcing.^[12]

Lozano began to work atLa Opinión at a time whenAIDS was still ataboo issue, especially among the predominantlyCatholicLatino communities. She fought hard against prejudice and fear to address the disease.^[12] She was also alarmed by the high rates ofinfant mortality amongHispanic women and she worked on stories coveringprenatal care.^[12] Lozano also oversaw an increase of what she called "proactive"^[12] political journalism. California GovernorPete Wilson andSenatorBarbara Boxer were interviewed on its pages.^[12]

She became the publisher ofEl Eco del Valle (in theSan Fernando Valley) in 1990.^[12] Her husband, previously working in the circulation department ofLa Opinión, went to organize the distribution ofEl Eco del Valle.^[12] Around the same time, Lozano was promoted to Associate Publisher, under her brother, at La Opinión.^[12]

• NHMC Impact Awards (2021) (NHMC Impact Award Outstanding Leadership)^[20]

• College Futures Foundation (staff bio page)
• Monica Lozano Corporate Bio^[usurped]
• Weingart Foundation (of which Lozano is a director)
• La Opinión (online)

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