Samuel Orozco

Samuel Orozco is the architect and director of Radio Bilingüe’s news and information programming, as well as founding executive producer of Noticiero Latino news service, Edición Semanaria and Línea Abierta. Samuel has interviewed Latino pioneers of the arts, politics and culture, as well as many unsung heroes. His historic live broadcasts for Latino audiences range from covering presidential conventions and racial healing dialogues, to public forums on immigration and environmental health, to special broadcasts of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. A firm believer in the importance of preserving the history of the Latino community, Samuel leads the Archivos de RB project and is the oral historian for two books: To the Promised Land and Organizing for Our Lives: New Voices from Rural Communities. Thousands of hours of Samuel’s productions are now housed in the Library of Congress’s Public Broadcasting Archives. In the early 1990s, Samuel launched Satélite Radio Bilingüe, overseeing the interconnection of bilingual public stations via satellite and distributing news and cultural programs in Spanish throughout the national public radio system.