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Hugo Noé Morales is the executive director and co-founder, in 1976, of Radio Bilingüe Inc., the national Latin public radio network. He is responsible for leading and managing all aspects of organizational development and service delivery for this nonprofit whose mission is to serve as a voice to empower Latinos and other underserved communities. Radio Bilíngue is a transnational community satellite radio service in Spanish, English and Mixtec. Other responsibilities include program development, public relations, fundraising, board development, personnel management, and key stakeholder management.
Hugo Noe Morales Rosas was born on March 23, 1949, in Cuyotepeji, Huajuapam de Leon, Oaxaca, in La Mixteca Baja in southern Mexico. He is the co-founder and CEO of Radio Bilingue, Inc., the National Latino Public Radio Network, a nonprofit media producer, distributor, and broadcaster. Hugo Morales serves on and has served on several boards of directors of private foundations, including The San Francisco Foundation, The California Endowment, The Rosenberg Foundation, and on several higher education panels, including working as a trustee of the California State University System. Morales was a pioneer in new Latino media through a project he co founded, Los Angeles Public Media, which for a short time launched an innovative website in multiethnic English aimed at Latino youth, African Americans and Asians educated in greater Los Angeles.
Among the awards received by Hugo Morales are:
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National Heritage Fellowship (United States government's highest
honor, in the folk and traditional arts, awarded by the National Endowment for
the Arts), 2020;
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Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from California State
University, Sacramento, 2011;
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Bader Award (the highest lifetime achievement award by the
National Federation of Community Broadcasters), 2007;
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Cultural Freedom Award (Lannan Foundation), 2006;
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Director's Award (California Arts Council Award for Outstanding
Contribution to the Arts in California), 2002;
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The Cesar Chavez Award in Education (the highest award given by
the Mexican-American Education Association (AMAE), 2000;
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Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from California State
University, Fresno, 1999;
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Susan G. Hadden Pioneer Award (awarded by the Alliance for Public
Technology for ensuring equitable access to information for the
Spanish-speaking population in the United States and Mexico), 1999;
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Edward R. Murrow Award (the highest award given by the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting), 1999;
● MacArthur Fellows Program, 1994.
Hugo Morales’ work has been featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Parade Magazine, The Fresno Bee, The Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News, Harvard Alumni Magazine, Harvard Law Bulletin, NBC's Today Show and PBS Latino Heritage series.
