How a kid from El Monte became one of Hollywood's few Latino executives
Cris Abrego, one of Hollywood’s few high-ranking Latino executives, oversees U.S. and Latin American operations for reality TV juggernaut Banijay.
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Scouring his high school class schedule, then-14-year-old Cris Abrego caught his breath.
TV Production.
It was 1986, and the incoming freshman, a self-described TV addict, assumed the course would teach Latino teens like him how to build television sets. After all, this was an era when students in working-class communities, including those at El Monte’s Mountain View High School, were encouraged to take auto or wood shop to prepare for a blue-collar life.