Leadership Bios

Meet our Managing Artistic Director, Jacobo Lovo

As the Managing Artistic Director of Latino Arts, Inc., Jacobo Lovo, leads the organization while developing community-focused educational and cultural programming. He also advocates for the arts through collaborations with other arts organizations. 

Jacobo believes in the positive impact the arts have on our quality of life and strongly believes the arts play a crucial role in strengthening Milwaukee's economic vitality and competitiveness in developing and attracting talent locally, nationally, and internationally.

Prior to his role at Latino Arts, Jacobo spent 16 years as an art educator for Latino Arts’ sister-organization, United Community Center.

Dinorah Márquez | Director, Latino Arts Strings Program & Mariachi Juvenil

Dinorah Márquez was born in Mexico City. At the age of 10,
she immigrated with her family to El Paso, Texas, where she began her musical studies with violinists James Angerstein and Abraham Chavez. Marquez completed her undergraduate studies in American Studies, at Northwestern University, with a minor in International Studies at the University of Florence, Italy. She later worked as Assistant Press Secretary for Mayor Harold Washington in the City of Chicago. After several years, she returned to her musical activities both in the U.S. and Mexico, where she was a guest performer with the Filarmónica del Bajío in Guanajuato, the Orquesta de Mexico in Mexico City, and the Camerata del Estado de Veracruz.

Marquez founded an ethnomusicology project, which continues to this day. It focuses on the preservation of indigenous violin traditions in Xico, Veracruz, Mexico. She received a master's degree in Viola Performance and String Pedagogy from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She also received a Certificate in Chamber Music from the Leonard Sorkin International Institute of Chamber Music where she studied with the members of the Fine Arts Quartet.

Upon graduation, Marquez established the national award winning Latino Arts Strings Program (LASP). The LASP has given her the opportunity to provide immigrant Latino children with the type of musical training she received as an immigrant child. Learn more about the awards and recognition received by Marquez and the LASP.TrisCha Loebl | Cello & Piano Instructor