PHIL GONZALES Vice President — Communications CBS Entertainment Gonzales was named Vice President, Communications, CBS Entertainment in 2004. He oversees the Network's publicity efforts on behalf of primetime series, specials, movies and mini-series as well as late night and daytime programming. Gonzales joined CBS from Warner Bros. Television where he had been Vice President, Publicity since 2000. He spearheaded the landmark, award-winning publicity campaigns during the 10-year run of Friends and worked on many other big hits including The West Wing, Third Watch and, most recently, CBS's Two and a Half Men. He joined Warner Bros. in 1992 as a Senior Publicist and was named a Director in 1996. In 1995, Gonzales was the recipient of the Publicists Guild Award for best television campaign for his work on Friends. This is Gonzales’ second MPIL Award.
LINO GARCIA General Manager ESPN Deportes Based in New York, Garcia is responsible for guiding ESPN Deportes on a day-to-day basis in all areas of operation, including programming, production, affiliate sales, and marketing. Prior to joining ESPN, Garcia accumulated fifteen years of experience in the cable and satellite industry where he focused his efforts on marketing to the Hispanic community. He had served as vice president, affiliate marketing and local ad sales for Universal Television (2000-2003) and as vice president and general manager of Sony Entertainment Television (1998-2000), where he was responsible for all aspects of the Latin American cable television operation. Earlier in his career, Garcia held several director-level marketing positions with HBO and was instrumental in the development and launch of HBO en Español (1993-1998). He holds a degree in Psychology from the University of Delaware.
JONATHAN D. AVILA Vice President — Counsel, Chief Privacy Officer The Walt Disney Company Avila supervises data privacy law counseling and compliance for the domestic and international operations of Disney’s offline and online businesses. He also serves as Vice President of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and has served as a member of the Governing Committee of the Forum on Communications Law of the American Bar Association. Avila graduated cum laude from Yale University with a Bachelor degree in Philosophy, and received a Juris Doctorate from the Harvard Law. He also holds a diploma from the University of Salamanca in Spain. This is Avila’s second MPIL Award.
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HELEN HERNANDEZ President & Founder The Imagen Foundation Under her leadership, Hernandez has led the Foundation’s Imagen Awards the past 23 years which have become one of the most prestigious awards in the entertainment industry. Hernandez was raised in Azusa, Calif., and began her professional career as a labor union official before going into entertainment where she worked for Norman Lear and Jerry Perenchio at Embassy Communications. Hernandez has been recognized by the United States Congress in the Congressional Record for her work on behalf of the Latino community in the entertainment industry. In January 2008, she co-founded HMH Media and is the co-publisher of Inside Latino Entertainment & Media Magazine. This is Hernandez’s second MPIL Award.
KATHRYN F. GALAN Executive Director National Assoc. of Latino Independent Producers Galan has been NALIP’s Executive Director for seven years, establishing it as the preeminent national Latino media organization by taking it from an NCLR special project with a steering committee to an autonomous and substantial advocacy and professional development organization. She has been an independent producer (French Kiss, Squanto, Daybreak), new media consultant and studio executive. She was head of production for Atlantic Entertainment Group and a production Vice President at Walt Disney Studio’s Hollywood Pictures, She ran Meg Ryan’s Prufrock Pictures and her own consultancy firm, EKR Strategies. She is a graduate of Amherst College, and did initial media studies in video art at SUNY Buffalo, then MA studies in film history and criticism at UCLA, specializing in World Cinema. This is Galan’s second MPIL Award.
PATRICIA BOERO Executive Director Latino Public Broadcasting Boero’s expertise lies in the intersecting fields of philanthropy, filmmaking and socially responsible business. She was Director of the Sundance Institute’s International Program, and Senior Program Officer at the MacArthur Foundation, where she managed media programs, including funding for major public radio and television series. She was a Warren Weaver Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York. Boero directed Hispanics in Philanthropy’s Transnational Program, and was Senior Manager for Global Public Affairs at the Levi Strauss Foundation. Boero was also Director for International Corporate Social Responsibility at the Starbucks Coffee Company in Seattle. She studied film, arts and law in Sydney, Australia, where she directed documentaries for Film Australia and the public TV station SBS. She was a founding member of LPB’s Board of Directors, 1998–2006. I