Mr. Hugo Morales comes from a lineage of indigenous Oaxacan farmworkers, the Mixtecs, who migrated in the 1950s to Healdsburg, California, to pick prunes. Mr. Morales' violinist father founded a Mexican indigenous farmworker banda and always told his children around the dinner table to be proud of being indigenous. At Healdsburg High School, he excelled, winning scholarships to Harvard College and Harvard Law School. Mr. Morales returned home every summer to work in the farm fields with his family. Working in the fields and living in poverty in a farm labor camp helped him understand hardship and the cultural diversity of those working in the fields. With law degree in hand, he returned to California in 1975 and co-found the nonprofit, Radio Bilingüe. In 1980, Radio Bilingüe became the first Latino-controlled full-power FM radio station to serve the San Joaquín Valley and became the trusted voice of the community. Today, Radio Bilingüe is the leading Latino public radio network and content producer in U.S. public media, with 25 stations and 75-plus affiliates serving more than a half million listeners weekly in the U.S. and Mexico. Radio Bilingüe is a curator of Latino culture through series like Línea Abierta and Raíces: Art Moments on Radio and major festivals of mariachi and Norteño-Tejano music, including training workshops for youth. During the pandemic, Radio Bilingüe continued to provide critical information on prevention, vaccines, worker rights and worker benefits to essential workers in a language they understand, including Spanish, English, Mixteco, and Triqui.