Aquí is led by a visionary board of Latino leaders who are deeply committed to this work and see the value that this organization will bring to Latino communities.
Jacqueline Martinez Garcel
CEO & Co-Founder of Murado Entertainment
Jacqueline Martinez Garcel is a visionary leader with over twenty years of executive experience in equity, community well-being, and transformational leadership. Jacqueline is the CEO and Co-founder of Murado Entertainment, a production company revolutionizing the entertainment industry by integrating community ownership into its business model. Murado amplifies stories grounded in family, redemption, and hope while centering the lived experiences of Latino and immigrant families, children with special needs, and other historically overlooked communities. Together with her co-founder, visionary tech entrepreneur Tom Chavez, Jacqueline is redefining Hollywood’s relationship with Latinos and fostering a movement of creators committed to authentic storytelling and shared success.
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Most recently, Jacqueline served as the CEO of the Latino Community Foundation (LCF). During her eight years at LCF, she scaled the organization and set it on a mission to unleash the civic and economic power of Latinos. She successfully raised $100 million to advance this mission and, with her team, built the largest network of Latino philanthropists in the country.
Prior to LCF, Jacqueline served as Vice President of the New York Health Foundation (NYHealth), where she advised the President on establishing the foundation as a credible resource for policymakers and community leaders. Earlier in her career, Jacqueline served as the Executive Director of Community Voices in New York, a national initiative of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, where she leveraged over $80 million in public funds to advance equity and improve health outcomes for communities of color.
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Jacqueline’s expertise spans global public health, philanthropy, and civic leadership. She has been an NIH fellow for the Merida Department of Public Health in Yucatan, Mexico. She was appointed an adjunct professor at the New York University Global Institute of Public Health and the Social Science Department of the Borough of Manhattan Community College.
She has been a founding Board member of the Institute for Civic Leadership, a Board Director for NAMI-NYC Metro, and Grantmakers in Health. Currently, she serves on the Boards of Independent Sector, the David Rockefeller Fund, and the Equis Institute, and she is the former Chair of Aqui-Latino Accountability Movement. Jacqueline has also held advisory roles at the Center for Effective Philanthropy, California Forward, KQED, and Philanthropy Together, among others.
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Jacqueline is an accomplished writer who has published extensively on health equity, community well-being, and leadership. She holds a Master of Public Health from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University.
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Jacqueline is deeply passionate about elevating the voices of underrepresented communities, leveraging storytelling to inspire hope, and creating platforms to build economic prosperity for immigrant communities. As the CEO of Murado Entertainment, she is bringing her vision and experience to advance an authentic narrative of Latinos, increase representation in filmmaking, and drive business models where the creators and the communities inspiring the stories prosper financially.