Joseph Tovares is the Executive Producer of La Plaza, the Latino production unit at WGBH/Boston. Tovares has editorial supervision over all La Plaza productions —local, national, specials and interactive—including the nationally distributed series, Maria Hinojosa: One-On-One.

Prior to his work at La Plaza, Tovares was the Series Editor at American Experience. Mr. Tovares is the producer of "Zoot Suit Riots," a one-hour film for American Experience about Mexican American youth in 1942 Los Angeles who dared to challenged the unwritten social codes of wartime LA and paid a heavy price. Mr. Tovares is also the producer of "Remember the Alamo," a film about the Mexican community in Texas in the years leading up to the battle of the Alamo and the war for Texas independence.

A native of San Antonio, Texas, Tovares is a graduate of the School of Public Communication at Boston University and holds a master's degree in Radio-Television-Film from the College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin.