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CORPORATE, BUSINESS
ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, HEALTH
VICE CHAIRMAN OF AT&T INC., CEO OF AT&T BUSINESS SOLUTIONS, AND AT&T INTERNATIONAL.
DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, SCREENWRITER, AND NOVELIST.
PRESIDENT AND CEO OF THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR HISPANIC HEALTH
• Born on October 9, 1964, in Guadalajara, Mexico, del Toro is married and lives in Los Angeles.
• Born June 17, 1953. Delgado resides in Washington, D.C. with her husband.
His first directed feature, the Spanishlanguage Cronos, won the Mercedes-Benz Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1993. The Devil’s Backbone and his acclaimed El Laberinto del Fauno received an Oscar nod and 50 international wins and 30-plus nominations. The larger budget projects followed: Mimic, the Hellboy series, Pacific Rim, with a sequel in the works, Crimson Peak, plus his TV series, The Strain, and another handful of projects slated thru 2018. He is also credited as a writer in the film series The Hobbit.
1975 M.A. in psychology from New York University 1981 Ph.D. in clinical psychology from SUNY Stony Brook and an M.S. in Urban and Policy Sciences from Stony Brook’s W. Averell Harriman School of Management and Policy
RALPH DE LA VEGA • Born in Cuba in 1952, married, lives in Atlanta. De la Vega holds a bachelor’s degree of science in mechanical engineering from Florida Atlantic University, and an MBA from Northern Illinois University.
Ralph de la Vega holds a bachelor’s degree of science in mechanical engineering from Florida Atlantic University, and an MBA from Northern Illinois University. De La Vega is Vice Chairman of AT&T Inc. and CEO of AT&T Business Solutions and AT&T International. He is the author of the 2009 book “Obstacles Welcome: How to Turn Adversity to Advantage in Business and Life.” De la Vega serves on several boards of directors, including the board of New York Life Insurance Company. He previously served as COO of Cingular Wireless and as President of Latin America Operations and President of Broadband and Internet Services for BellSouth’s operations in ten countries.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO
http://deltorofilms.com
JANE L. DELGADO
Currently, Dr. Jane L. Delgado is President and CEO of National Alliance for Hispanic Health. Prior to that, she was a talent coordinator for Sesame Street before joining the Department of Health and Human Services. She serves on a variety of prestigious health organizations and research boards and has authored books, most recently “The Buena Salud Guide” book series, “The Latina Guide to Health”, and “The Buena Salud Guide to Arthritis and Your Life.” http://janeonhealth.blogspot.com/ https://twitter.com/janeonhealth (@janeonhealth)
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1 O1 MO ST I N F LU E N T I A L L AT I N O S
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ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT
ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
SPORTS
CONDUCTOR, VIOLINIST. MUSIC DIRECTOR ORQUESTA SINFÓNICA SIMÓN BOLÍVAR, LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC
PRODUCER, ACTIVIST
JOCKEY
• He was born on March 12, 1949 and lives in Los Angeles with his wife.
• Born on May 23, 1972 in Hidalgo, Mexico.
MOCTEZUMA ESPARZA
GUSTAVO DUDAMEL • Venezuelan. Born January 26, 1981 in Barquisimeto, Lara Venezuela. Divorced, with one child.
Dudamel began to study conducting in 1995, first with Rodolfo Saglimbeni, then later with José Antonio Abreu. In 2015 Dudamel conducted both the opening and end titles, for the official motion picture soundtrack and film of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens. The character of Rodrigo in Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle was based, in part, on Dudamel. Dudamel began his tenure as Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic on September 28, 2009 with a rehearsal of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony that included the Los Angeles Master Chorale and representatives of eight communitybased choruses. In February 2011, the orchestra announced the extension of Dudamel’s contract through the end of the 2018–2019 season, including the orchestra’s 100th anniversary.
1960s: Participated in the Chicano Movement 1973: Received his M.F.A. from UCLA 1997: Produced ‘Selena’, Jennifer Lopez breakout film. 2005: Opened up the first multiplex in the Maya Cinemas chain
A prolific producer with 31 credits, Oscarnominated Moctezuma Esparza blazed the trail for Chicano/Latino on-screen stories since the 1970s. His documentary short “Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country” received an Academy nod in 1978. His biggest hits include “Selena” and “The Milagro Beanfield War” and the HBO film “Walkout.” Recognizing the need for more cinemas to screen Latino and ethnically diverse films as well as Hollywood fare, Esparza launched the Maya Cinema multiplex chain; there are now four in California. www.mayaentertainment.com @MoctesumaE
VÍCTOR ESPINOZA Appropriately named, Victor has won all the most prestigious races and honors nationally and internationally. Winner of the 2016 Dubai World Cup, Winner of the Triple Crown in 2015 riding American Pharaoh, Espinosa is the first Latino, and the oldest jockey to ever win the coveted race. His luck comes often in three’s-Espinosa is a three-time Kentucky Derby winner - riding War Emblem in 2002, California Chrome in 2014, and American Pharaoh in 2015. Espinoza also won the Preakness Stakes three times, riding War Emblem in 2002 California Chrome in 2014 and American Pharaoh in 2015. He came to the US in 1992, without a word of English and lived in the stables in Northern California. In 2002, he won his first Kentucky Derby. He never looked back. To date, Victor has won a whopping 3,200 races. https://twitter.com/espinozasvictor
www.GustavoDudamel.com
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