My Futuro is Impactful: Our Projects for 2026
Latino USA
My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
It’s been a time of growth at Futuro – we’ve been breaking news and bringing rigorous in-depth journalism at Latino USA, creating ambitious podcasts at Futuro Studios, and sharing some awesome behind the scenes moments and stories at Futuro+ with our subscribers.
In this week's special episode, Futuro Studios Executive Editor and host Maria Garcia is joined by Managing Editor of Latino USA Fernanda Echavarri, and Grammy-nominated Senior Producer Jeanne Montalvo to bring you a sneak peak of some of the incredible projects we have in the works!
The Futuro Plus Team includes associate producer Liliana Ruiz, production managers Victoria Estrada and Jessica Ellis, marketing manager Luis Luna, and development manager Danetsy Len. Mixing by Multitude Productions.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Futudo Studios executive editor and host Maria Garcia, and I'm so excited to tell you what we are hard at work producing here at Futudo, because despite the challenges that public media has faced this year, Futuro has also faced a time of growth. We've been breaking news |
| 0:24.5 | and bringing you really rigorous, timely journalism over at Latino USA. And we've also been creating |
| 0:31.9 | really ambitious podcasts at Futuro Studios. And of course, we also celebrated the one-year anniversary of launching |
| 0:39.9 | our subscription membership service Futuro Plus and all of the amazing moments that we've been |
| 0:45.9 | able to share with our subscribers. And today is one of those amazing moments because we want to give |
| 0:52.6 | you a sneak peek at some of our big |
| 0:56.2 | podcast that we are going to be launching very, very soon. This is very exciting for me because |
| 1:01.9 | we've kept these podcasts a secret up until now. We're thrilled to be joined right now by two of my brilliant colleagues and friends, |
| 1:13.7 | managing editor of Latino USA, Fernanda Echabari, |
| 1:17.5 | and Grammy-nominated senior producer, Jeannie Montalvo. |
| 1:21.6 | Hi, Jeannie. |
| 1:22.4 | Hi, Fernanda. |
| 1:23.4 | Hi, Maria. |
| 1:24.4 | Jeannie, so nice to be with both of you. |
| 1:26.0 | Hello. |
| 1:27.1 | Glad to be here. |
| 1:28.1 | Grammy nominated. That is how you introduce someone. |
| 1:31.7 | I know, right? |
| 1:39.1 | So Jeannie, you took the majority of the time last year to produce something really, really special. |
| 1:47.7 | You and I have been collaborating closely on this. I've witnessed how this was once a dream for Futudo |
| 1:55.6 | studios, a seedling of an idea, and over the last year, we've created a project that was one of our sort of like |
| 2:03.0 | dream projects as I mentioned and it is about the birth of salsa. |
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