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Raquel Ortiz
RAQUEL ORTIZ has 35 years of experience in television and educational production as producer, writer, director, executive producer, and manager, within the public broadcast system and the media. Sh...view moreRAQUEL ORTIZ has 35 years of experience in television and educational production as producer, writer, director, executive producer, and manager, within the public broadcast system and the media. She also owned and managed her own independent production company, Ortiz/Simon Productions, Inc., which specialized in the development and production of multi-cultural film and video projects; produced multi-media educational videos and TV and radio commercials, and has consulted for various media entities in the United States and Latin America.
Ortiz developed, produced, and was host for public broadcasting WGBH-TV Boston’s award-winning Latino series La Plaza and as Executive Producer went on to supervise other popular TV shows, such as Say Brother, Kaleidoscope and the Neighborhood series. As Senior Producer at VPG Integrated Media, she produced numerous educational language videos and CD-ROMS for classroom use, such as the award-winning Caminos des Jaguar, taped in six Latin-American countries for a major US textbook publisher. In 1996 the documentary Mi Puerto Rico, a personal exploration of Puerto Rico/American relations that was executive produced, hosted, and narrated and co-written by Ortiz, premiered on PBS.
An active member of the larger community, Ortiz has served on various boards, including United Way and The Children’s Museum Multicultural Advisory Board, The Film Fund and The ASPIRA Association. She has been inducted into the YMCA Academy of Women Achievers and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Silver Circle. She is also a fellow of the National Hispana Leadership Institute and was awarded a MacDowell Arists Colony Residency.
Raquel Ortiz was born and raised in New York and is a first generation Puerto Rican. She is now the sole proprietor of Noble Roar Productions and works and resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.view less